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The fact that the market has held the gains from the end of last week is a positive sign.

What if we're seeing the stirrings of 'Dutch disease', whereby windfall gains from commodity industries push up the currency so as to squeeze activity in more productive sectors like manufacturing?

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

You have to gain respect from your teammates. You have to earn it.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

The only significant gains in finding available kidneys for these patients are likely to come from KPD,

There are many laws that have been important to our customers in recent years, including the increase in retirement contribution limits and the reduction in taxes on capital gains and dividends.

We believe the committee was able to make significant gains in addressing the economic concerns that our members have including their retirement concerns.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

When one has money like this, you want to invest it the best way possible, where you can maximize the gains from it, ... If you want to get money back to people, I think cutting taxes is a good idea, especially cutting taxes that are doing the most harm to the economy, rather than just giving a blank cheque to people.

This report shows a race between factors boosting net worth such as home ownership and factors pushing the other way such as weak wage growth. Unless we start to see better income growth from jobs and wages, it is hard to see major gains in net worth for the typical family.

This report is a slow boat to China, reflecting continuing business caution about hiring people. Facing unprecedented competition from both domestic and foreign sources, businesses are still focused on productivity gains with as few employees as possible.

There have been some gains in test scores in Camden that raised some questions. Due to some of the increases, we are conducting fact finding, at this point.

The rebound of U.S. manufacturing, seen in many positive indicators over the past few weeks, is reflected also in the continued gains this year for business investment in advanced manufacturing technology.

When combined with the anticipated double-digit gains in employer health-care costs, manufacturers may find it very difficult to add to their payrolls next year and may opt to work their existing work forces longer.

We saw consolidation of the gains in the Canadian dollar from last Friday.

We saw a breakout, a fundamental breakout today again, on a lot of these tech stocks. There's a lot of support behind them. They're the ones making all the gains right now for the most part.

We think we'll see a very decent year in 2006 and as the market gains momentum more people will change their very cautious views seen late last year.

We've come so far. Holding onto gains from yesterday's rally is impressive.

You have gains in the more cyclical names versus selling in Citigroup and J.P. Morgan. You also have the Dow getting a lift from some positive short-term movement in the dollar,

You have to consider where some of these materials stocks have come from. After recent gains you can expect some natural sellers in the market.

We believe that Activision's focus on building high-quality franchises, sustaining above average operating margins and ROIC, and aggressively participating in the expanding handheld market have positioned the company for industry-leading growth and market share gains throughout the next-generation console cycle.

While good gains in productivity are economically favorable, it is not a good situation when this occurs because labor input is declining more rapidly than output.

You have News Corp. weaker, you have the banking sector basically steady but with Australia & New Zealand Banking Group pulling back after some strong gains in recent weeks ...outside of that the market is just steady.

We have seen some really big winners this week. Today was no different. With one-day gains on the earnings picks from four to six percent and momentum picks up as much as eighteen percent, I am quite sure the users were happy.

We have seen some big really winners on huge down days. Today was no different. With one-day gains from eight to eleven percent, I am quite sure the users were happy.

This should help the greenback continue the rally experienced over the last few weeks and leave the market focusing on further dollar gains related to a potential move of the fed funds rate to 5.00 percent.

There are inflation figures due out Thursday and Friday. The CPI and the PPI both are expected at 0.5 percent (increase), which is a very large gain, but both of those gains are expected to be driven by higher oil prices.

When you look at the fact that real wage gains are very much in line with productivity, I do not believe that we have inflationary pressures on the economy, ... As long as we can continue to see that picture in the future, then I think we should not be extraordinarily concerned about inflationary pressures.

With employment gains non-existent, income growth has slowed. As households also become more judicious in taking on more debt, consumer spending will remain soft.

While it comes as no surprise that the nominee's views are different than ours, it is the seemingly extreme nature of those views, the degree of difference, that makes his candidacy unacceptable. Roberts has demonstrated a commitment to reversing the historic civil rights gains of the past 40 years.

Without the benefit of data or issuance, the impetus to extend those gains is limited.

Without deferred tax credits, Hutchison needs to book exceptional gains this year to keep profits firmly in the black. We hope that this spurs the company into more corporate activity.

With the blessing and grace of Almighty God and with the assistance of the faithful Saudi people, we shall continue the welfare march of construction and development and maintain the gains which are reflected by comprehensive achievements in various fields

With some retailers seeing between 25 and 40 percent of their annual sales during the holiday season, there's still time for retailers to show positive gains in 2003,

We are expecting a reasonably soft number, which could undo some small dollar gains we have seen against European currencies.

Unemployment at 6 percent means the Fed has just lost six full years of progress towards lower unemployment in just six quarters. With its preferred measure of core inflation at the lowest level since the 1960s, the Fed probably requires a run of monthly payroll gains of 150,000 to 200,000 before it will feel any real need to tighten.

When somebody states a wrong fact, abusing the ignorance of people, and gains from that, that is one of the gravest crimes.

But nobody wants to hear about gains over the next couple of years,

Both Perth and Darwin have very strong gains which are continuing to be buoyed by the commodity price cycle.

Both Oklahoma and Dell will win big from this business relationship. Our state gains good jobs and a global business leader renown for making technology easier to use and more affordable, and Dell gets a great home with a wonderful supporting cast of highly skilled employees. It's a win-win for everyone.

We need to see a confirmation in the next few weeks. We need another session of gains of 1 to 2 percent for all the major indexes before I'll be confident that this is a bottom.

Transitioning the data center to a more dynamic virtual model is essential to reducing the complexity and improving the responsiveness of today's IT organization. By supporting the Sun Fire x64 servers, we enable Sun users, for the first time, to leverage the full power of a dynamic data center infrastructure and the dramatic gains it offers in agility, performance and operating expense.

While we cannot be certain, we continue to believe it is highly unlikely that HP would acquire Kodak, especially given HP's current focus on fixing its own business. The areas that Kodak gains profits from -- film, X-ray film, entertainment film, laser imagers -- are in secular decline.

While the overall numbers in January did not show a sizable increase, job gains in most sectors overshadowed a noticeable decline in government employment and we are now in the fifth consecutive month of job growth.

We've had two days of gains to start the year. I think this day is going to be the day for consolidation, and we are in front of tomorrow's payroll numbers.

We've had a great run, but it's too much, too fast. The economic data haven't been strong enough to justify the kind of gains we've seen recently and today's leading economic indicator could signal a slowdown, giving us a wakeup call.

We've had some pretty good gains in a lot of sectors lately that need to be adjusted. The encouraging thing is we're not seeing a lot of volume, so there aren't a lot of sellers out there.

We've had pretty sizable gains in the last two days, so you're seeing a little rotating out of sectors and some profit taking. Last week we had a one-hit wonder. This week we're trying to see if we can do a little better.

We've had moon shots over the last few days, so this is natural. The market is digesting a lot of the gains it has made. The important thing is there is an asset allocation shift that has followed through from yesterday, with people getting out of bonds and into stocks.

We'll have very solid overall job gains that will punctuate the start of more normal activity in terms of employment,

There is some functionality difference between a Microsoft thick client and a Linux desktop and many employers believe there are productivity gains to be had,

There is nothing to be scared of here. When you take out several one-time gains including apparel, tobacco and lodging, prices were almost unchanged.

The recent weak data should remind us that the exceptional gains in business confidence and new export orders may be overly optimistic.

The recent tech gains were supported by a wave of upward revisions to earnings forecasts. But for those shares to go further from here, investors need to know how they are going to perform next year.

The recent gains were just a bit too much, too fast.

The recent cold snap seems more like a last hurrah for Old Man Winter, and with barely a few weeks left in the winter season, inventories for natural gas remain in near record territory. This will ensure that any price gains for natural gas in the aftermath of today's report will be limited.

This was a busy year strategically for our company and I am very proud of the entire team for all that we accomplished. We delivered a strong increase in wireless net customer additions and gains in average revenue per customer for the fourth quarter, capping a year where Alltel accelerated wireless growth by expanding our customer base and creating the nation's largest wireless network. This year we also launched a new brand with proof points that are resonating with our wireless customers.

We cannot rule out further gains later in the week, particularly if (DOE) inventory numbers surprise.

We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

to have taken the attack personally, posting widespread reductions in expected real sales gains over the next three months.

You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels,

This year is going to be a great year for the semiconductor sector in terms of revenue growth. And we think that next year is going to be good, but the revenue growth rate is going so slow. I think we've known that for well over a year. And it's just that we're getting closer to that point so at what point do you start to let go of some of the gains that you've had over the past year and a half or two years?

We might start the day with some gains in stocks on the back of the good reports that came this morning. But with concerns over oil, and inflation down the road, investors may take the opportunity to take some profits.

We have today and tomorrow as the last trading sessions of the year. With the stock being down so far, you would be looking at a little bit of tax selling to harvest those capital losses to offset gains in other areas.

What's going to drive stock gains going forward is the earnings, and the current crop of earnings may have already been accounted for. I'm looking for the earnings in the second quarter and particularly the second half of the year to drive stocks higher.

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

With Kellogg stock down 3.5% over the past 12 months, we now feel there is sufficient upside in the stock to justify an upgrade. Market share gains have continued in cereal despite General Mills' return to competitiveness.

With exports to China, demand -- which had slowed late last year -- is now seeing a solid rebound, and with firm demand in the US continuing, Japanese exports are most likely to maintain brisk gains in the near term.

We expect strong openings across Europe this morning - the bulk of the U.S. gains we saw yesterday were posted after the European markets had closed.

We expect strong defense aftermarket revenues combined with some renewed interest in business jet travel to partially offset softness in commercial air transport markets, ... These factors plus accelerated cost productivity gains are expected to help offset income lost from the commercial air transport business.

We expect productivity growth to moderate, and compensation gains and unit labor costs to pick up. Just another piece of the puzzle that points toward more Fed tightening than the market currently expects.

We expect holiday sales for consumer electronics to be OK. Last year was such as a good year that the big gains maybe aren't sustainable.

We expect Galaxy to trigger modest, though perhaps not lasting, share gains for Sun,