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We are all mindful of the industry environment, the pressure on our suppliers and dealers, unfavorable market share trends, and the fact that our issues in North America are structural rather than cyclical. That is why we remind our people that we will either change ourselves -- or be changed by someone else.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

We acknowledge the fact that we have a really good stake in the auto industry, and the important thing is to keep up with technology to stay competitive. We have to stay in that game, but at the same time we have to realize that the auto industry isn't growing like it used to.

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

We are hoping it will be the great awakening. This is not just going on with just Delphi, but the airline industry and corporate America. We're hoping this will get the attention of the public and Capitol Hill.

We are hearing the back-to-school season was good and that notebooks were particularly strong. We are expecting they are going to see normal seasonality for the industry into the fourth quarter.

We did not expect any change in interest rates today from the Bank of England, although clearly a further reduction in the run-up to Christmas would have been helpful to both retailers and industry in general.

We determined we could move forward at a quicker pace by rehabilitating fewer entries and doing less construction on the way in. I believe we have the smartest, most talented people in the industry working as hard as they can to get the men out safely.

What we really want to be able to do now, is to have government and the aviation industry working together right now to find that strategic solution, knowing that there is gridlock and the potential of increased accidents if we don't do something to address the problem today,

There are more college kids in IT-related programs, but universities still are not keeping up with industry demand. About 30,000 to 35,000 students will graduate this year in all computer science-related fields. But that represents a 10-1 spread between the supply of students and the shortage.

There are some really good examples of where the industry has come together. The Internet Watch Foundation is funded by industry, and without legislation this approach has achieved fantastic things in the last five years.

The only way we resolve these issues as an industry is we have to work together. We need collaboration and standards. We need to share information and knowledge.

The only way these guys can escape higher fuel prices is by raising fares. The industry is working hard to raise prices. And so far they have been successful.

The only way the industry has to recoup any of this is rate changes.

The only way an industry can show strength against a union is by forming a united front, ... Nothing unusual there. But I do think the union's going to take a tough stance. Where this shakes out, I don't know. We're still in the early posturing stages.

We decided to release this information on the Web, because we wanted to ensure that it would be available to all interested parties, rather than limiting the audience to those able to attend a traditional Industry Day. There is a great deal of interest in these contracts, and the Web provides a venue that makes the information available to all, at their own convenience.

We decided it would be incredibly valuable to have someone on our side of the table who had some direct industry experience, a ton of professional experience and who could vouch for us.

We're about to kick-start a new growth engine for the mobile industry. To grow, the wireless industry needs to provide end-to-end solutions and innovative services. We're creating great new tools to do just that.

We're asking the fast food industry and all of the restaurants to start looking at their menus and see if they can diversify and put healthier foods on there and help to promote them.

We're a right-to-work state. You need to be careful when you talk about ports, because you're talking about unions. If any industry came in this area that is unionized, I'd fight it tooth and nail.

We're an industry leader; we'll be number one by the end of next year. It's almost guaranteed.

We heard commentary from several retailers that is consistent with what we have heard from industry contacts over the past six weeks: Inventory is expected to flow better in late February, and by late March inventory levels should be consistently filled.

We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

We hope we will have for the first time actual documents of testimony from the tobacco industry that would demonstrate that the allegations that have been made by the 22 state attorney generals is in fact true, and will be major evidence in the many trials that are ongoing around this country.

We hold ourselves up to the same Electronics Industry Code of Conduct standards as we expect from our suppliers.

We have provided engineering solutions to the casting and foundry industry for many years. We are excited about the capability and features that KUKA offers to our next generation of customized solutions. Feedback from customers has been extremely positive and we look forward to a long and successful partnership with KUKA Robotics.

We've staked out as our business model to operate in those areas of the IT industry where research can make a difference, which is pretty nice for the research team.

We've shipped a new version of Windows, we've paid an historic fine and we've provided unprecedented access to Microsoft technology to promote interoperability with other industry players. Yet every time we make a change, we find that the Commission moves the goal post and demands another change.

We've shipped a new version of Windows, we've paid an historic fine, and we've provided unprecedented access to Microsoft technology to promote interoperability with other industry players. In total, we have now responded to more than 100 requests from the Commission.

We've seen the telecommunications industry change dramatically in the last 20 years. And we'll see it change again in the next 10 years. And eventually, the end result should be better services and lower costs for consumers.

We've seen record numbers of bankruptcies every year. The lending industry feels there are a number of filings that are abusive and could have been avoided.

We've seen growth and a real doubling of funding in all sectors. The proportions are really unchanged over the decade, with roughly 60 percent coming from industry and the remainder coming from government and foundations.

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

We have resources that can help India develop its steel industry and in the current scenario resource security is the most important aspect.

The extent of Apple's pre-announcement and the laundry list of problems that the company cited lead us to believe that its woes are as much company specific as they are industry related and the demand for products is just not there.

The extension of I3A's PTP standard by CIPA is an excellent illustration of the value of cooperation between organizations, and across national boundaries. Such synergy benefits our industry as well as our customers.

The fact is that we wanted everybody in the industry to be ready for this.

The fact is that since the passage of the Maryland electric industry restructuring law in 1999, BGE residential customers have benefited from a substantially lower rate structure ... well below the market rates paid in other parts of the country. BGE has no choice but to procure power at prevailing market rates. Every dollar deferred is a dollar that might not be invested in infrastructure for the utility.

The creative work is a blend of past and present that is uniquely newspaper media. Newspaper media is time tested and future ready for this brave new world of advertising in the 21st century. If the industry wants the advertising community to believe that it is a vibrant media choice, it needs to believe in itself. It needs to get its swagger back.

The creative on these spots is fun, entertaining and informative. With the industry and listener momentum we're seeing, we're able to showcase what radio does best - engage and inform.

The creation of a BDC should result in more business for Thrifty Car Sales dealers and happier customers. Our dealers were telling us they had a need for greater traffic flow to their locations, and the business development center is designed to do just that. This is a red-hot concept in the car sales industry right now. Lots of new car dealers with multiple brands are moving to a call/business development center strategy. It takes incoming calls off the showroom floor and channels them to dedicated professionals solely focused on making appointments. We were able to leverage the assets of our worldwide car rental reservation center to deliver an extremely cost-effective, state-of-the art, full-service call center for our dealers.

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.

The reality is that many other people working in the auto industry are going to be asked to make painful adjustments, too, and a lot of people are going to say it's not worth it.

The real emissions are coming from industry. And it's industry which needs to embrace the technology.

There are a lot of charismatic people in this industry ... and I can understand why people on location get together.

There is clearly an intention by the authorities to increase enforcement of IP rights through the police, and this is perhaps the top request of foreign industry over the last few years.

There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage,

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

There is no doubt that software as a service has become a driving force within the software industry. Indications are that customer adoption will continue over the next five years and spending will remain on the rise. The software industry must adopt a new frame of reference for value creation. Software as a service delivery is at the forefront of this trend, and adoption will grow as more customers experience software as a service and the offerings mature, becoming more readily accepted and available in the market.

We set out to measure 25 brands in this growing hospitality category. However, in the minds of ultra-wealthy consumers, the Destination Club industry is still in its early stages of development. This is indicated by the dramatically low consumers awareness, rendering a large number of brands unable to be rated for lack of a reliable statistical sample. The category is populated with new brands with highly generic brand names. Many names are quite similar, generating a significant lack of differentiation in the minds of consumers. In this highly fragmented category, few brands have generated sufficient awareness, or differentiation, to make a strong impression on the wealthy. This accounts for the tight variances in scores across most dimensions on luxury status.

The people of HP can execute, and they've proven it. Think about the challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome: a very difficult economic environment worldwide; an industry undergoing a rapid transformation; intense competition; and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have predicted, but one that we are determined to win.

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

The production of the television feature by the renowned travel journalist was a solid endorsement of Jamaica's tourist industry and an affirmation of the island as a premier destination,

The process of developing this benchmark ensures that it is a realistic testing tool for users, the ISV and hardware vendors. The automotive industry generously donated an actual design model, UGS contributed the testing framework based on characteristic use of NX 3, and we integrated it with the proven SPEC methodology that helps ensure consistent results.

The outlook for first quarter 2006 has been steadily improving and we are now seeing less than normal industry seasonality impact in our business.

The outlook for Asia-Pacific's aviation industry in 2006 remains fairly positive, although the burden of high oil prices on the global economy remains a concern.

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

What we can do and what we have done, is improve the operations of our entire company so that we are in the best possible position to respond to the industry changes that we and our competitors will undoubtedly confront,

We have a significant economic engine in the aerospace industry in Tulsa. We had a Tulsa aerospace alliance that we have been supporting so they can help the small and medium size businesses in the aerospace industries to expand.

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

This project is in a downward spiral, even members of the nuclear industry are looking for other ways to store the waste,and throwing more money at this problem-ridden albatross will not fill gaps in the science because the science is not there.

This project builds on Siemens Business Services specialist knowledge in the media industry and puts us at the forefront of IT, communications and media innovation. By transforming the entire production process, this project will create one of the most leading edge integrated broadcast centers in Europe.

This program will call on industry to essentially eliminate PFOA release and its presence in products over the next decade.

This program is the perfect vehicle for the restaurant industry to contribute in a meaningful way to the massive relief efforts undertaken by the American Red Cross. We urge everyone to make eating at a participating restaurant for lunch or dinner on Oct. 5 part of their schedule.

This program is another way in which we are working with local high schools and universities to develop future talent for our organization here on Long Island. We hope this program will help us generate more interest in the sciences from the junior and senior high school level to develop tomorrow's aerospace industry leaders.

This program is a great success. Together with the GSMA and our mobile operator partners, we are enabling over 31,000 new consumers to experience mobile connectivity every single day. This is powerful, not only for the consumers whose lives it is changing, but also for global economies, for our own business and for the mobile industry as a whole.

There are very few people that carry the credibility and insight into this industry that Jerry York does. They got an all-star.

We've taken our timely raw-material timber-pricing data to the next level, which will ultimately help our customers make better business decisions. We're the only company in the forest and wood-products industry that has been able to collect this level of raw-material data. We believe it will revolutionize timber-price forecasting and planning.

We've survived hurricanes ever since the domestic shrimp industry began. The only thing we haven't been able to survive is the dumping of imported shrimp.

We've seen a 3.5 percent increase overall in salaries for creative and communications marketing professionals. That's a healthy industry outlook.

When you put together a prescription drug bill that puts the pharmaceutical and insurance industry first, and the recipients way down at the bottom, of course you're going to get one big mess. And we have it.

We had been trying to communicate the cooperative's difference by ourselves, with our own efforts. Aligning with Touchstone Energy gives us new tools for getting that message out. We think that Touchstone offers so much more - ways to involve local business, find potential sites for new industry to locate. Over the next few months, we'll be rolling out Touchstone Energy-related programs that will underscore the benefits of cooperative membership.

When the Medicare drug benefit was passed, AARP issued a challenge to the drug industry to keep increases at least to the rate of inflation until people had better coverage. By and large, that's not happening, ... Prices are going up more than twice the rate of inflation.

When the industry was falling off a cliff they made a huge acquisition which was a huge mistake. That's what's driving them into bankruptcy.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.

We were created not to be another school of management. San Diego already has schools of management in business. They do a fine job at what they're supposed to do, but it isn't why the industry in San Diego -- and beyond -- wanted us to exist.

When you compare that to the industry multiple of 13.5, these stocks look a little overpriced but they are in good shape.

When the Speaker's gavel comes down, it's intended to open the People's House, and lately it's looking like the Auction House, ... Whether it's an energy bill that gives more $8 billion to the oil and gas interests while oil's at $64 a barrel, whether it's a corporate tax bill solving a $5 billion problem with a $150 billion solution, whether it's a pharmaceutical, prescription drug bill where the industry gave $132 million and walked away with $135 billion in additional profits.

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

The plant closures, however painful, will guarantee the future of the remaining plants by allowing them to be industry leaders, both in terms of productivity and cost effectiveness.

There are opinions, no way that our natural gas industry do not support the growth and development of industry at home.

There are tremendous dollars in the wind power industry but now a great majority of investors are looking at the solar industry to achieve a higher rate of return. There's way too much money chasing wind projects so that investors are now competing over wind projects. A lot of them have already raised funds and want to place them in a tax advantaged way.

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

There are people like the Taylor boys who are the next generation. There is no mistake about that. They are taking it very seriously and they care about the success of the sales business. They have all taken the industry to the next level.

We're sending a message to these folks in the industry that are trying to control (this process).

We're seeing this trend in the manufacturing industry as a whole. The steel industry, as far back in the process as you can go, was one of the first to feel the stress of all this. Heavy manufacturing continues to fall out throughout the country. This company is no exception.

We're not dependent on just one line or grade of paper. We have a very diverse paper industry in the Fox Valley from fine paper to paper board to tissue. When there are fluctuating markets in one segment, usually the others offset any downturns.

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

LignUp is one of the players in an industry value chain that increasingly differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. By exhibiting a focus on a networking industry model, open interfaces, open standards, and an innovative Web services based architecture, LignUp has joined a circle of companies that represent the future of IP communications.

LSI has achieved first pass success on this product, which is unique in the industry and is a testament to our expander expertise and SAS development process. Using LSI, OEMs have the opportunity to source expanders and controllers from a single vendor, providing proven interoperable solutions and the lowest risk path to success. By reducing the number of vendors to be managed, these OEMs can speed products to their customers faster.

LWS tells us that the water quality is good, but people are still suspect. I think they may be on the right track with the wells, but anyone looking to bring industry here has to only look on the Internet to know the problems.

LWS tells us that the water quality is good, but people are still suspect, ... I think they may be on the right track with the wells, but anyone looking to bring industry here has to only look on the Internet to know the problems.

Making a decision to be healthy is good. What is negative, however, is putting it in the context of losing weight, instead of taking better care of your body. Feeling bad about yourself keeps the diet industry in business.

Making public the conditions of special contracts that utilities are allowed to enter into when recruiting industry would give other states and their utilities an unfair advantage and jeopardize Mississippi's economic future.

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows.

Let's remember that in 1992 and 1993, Bill Bradley supported a special-interest tax loophole that was a boondoggle for the pharmaceutical industry and then-Senator Gore voted against that in 1992.

Leo brings a very broad and deep level of experience to Kelley Blue Book that stretches across the automotive industry -- from optimizing dealership operations to maximizing the opportunities of the Internet and e-commerce. He's coming on board to lead an aggressive growth strategy across multiple business units.