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Operating profits were up, despite a decline in net revenues, largely due to the fact that expense reductions from our margin improvement program have now been realized and incorporated into our earnings,

Of the small handful of companies that have reported, the disappointments that came out were due largely because costs were higher, and here we've got oil, the No. 1 catalyst that caused that, jumping higher again.

Nor is it out of character that Chicago's grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake. from waste thrown into Lake Michigan a 75-year-old dump.

The Nasdaq, which is largely driven by tech stocks, has soared 24 percent in the past three-week period, so today we're seeing some profit-taking as the market is refreshing.

The Nasdaq has largely been immune to the pullback in the Dow recently. Some of this response is overdue.

The narrowing of the budget shortfall in October is largely due to timing factors. Nevertheless, there is no apparent deterioration caused by the federal relief efforts following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,

The music download services are certainly seeing healthy interest. Especially with digital-rights management issues largely addressed and record labels becoming more involved, the sector should continue its growth rate.

The movement to notebooks for people who are largely not mobile workers and were doing it because of lower heat and smaller space requirements, that part of the trend flattened out a bit as we got to very small form factor desktops and LCD monitors becoming more affordable.

Spending ended the quarter on a strong note, and that largely reflects the return of growth in auto sales. It's confirmation that spending was getting back on track.

Now, McDonald's is a very good indicator of the global economy. If McDonald's doesn't increase its sales, it tells you that the monetary policies have largely failed in the sense that prices are going up more than disposable income, and so people have less purchasing power.

Oil prices have been exceeding the most bullish forecasts for the past year and a half, and that's not driven by industry fundamentals, but largely by speculation and fears of a potential supply disruption,

The money we get to rebuild depends largely on contents and varies widely. They're trying to do good. They're trying to help, but the work started happening before all the avenues had cleared.

The momentum is pretty strong -- the market has turned bullish and this is largely due to their inflation fears and on expectations of higher U.S. interest rates,

Development has accelerated in that part of the region over the last few years largely due to the increasing traffic congestion on the north side of Austin. In many instances you can buy essentially the same home in South Austin or in Hays County that you would in Williamson County, and if you are working downtown, your commute time would be half as long.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

Apple listened to what its users wanted and reacted to it. I'm very happy about it, but I'm also a little sad that our project, which was just getting momentum, was made largely irrelevant now.

A preponderance of evidence, from the best observational studies the medical world has to offer, gathered over 25 years, has led to the conclusion that public health action is needed. Primary prevention of these cancers has largely been neglected, but we now have proof that the incidence of colon, breast, and ovarian cancer can be reduced dramatically by increasing the public's intake of vitamin D.

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

Asian makers particularly are exploiting Detroit's 2,000 dollar per-vehicle cost-of-production disadvantage (which largely stems from the US manufacturers' enormous legacy costs) to offer stylistically and technologically more advanced vehicles.

The budget outlook has improved slightly so far this fiscal year, largely during to still robust tax receipts.

Attracting sufficient equity capital to fund critical research is often a challenging task for the industry. This problem is exacerbated by an outdated tax regime that was largely set in place well before the advent of the modern biotechnology industry. The federal government should lead the effort in providing favorable tax and regulatory environments that will create incentives for economic development and job creation in the life sciences sector similar to the ongoing efforts at the state level.

A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.

Alan's varied real estate experience will go a long way with helping us as we roll out our Justice stores, which is largely off-the-mall. He is familiar with the players, and he's got the inside scoop.

The mission of the Anglo-Saxon has been largely that of the soldier; but the world is making progress, we are leaving behind the barbarism of war; as civilization advances, it will learn less of war, and concern itself more with the arts of peace, and for these the massive battle-ax must be wrought into tools of finer temper.

You need to put effort into determining the return, which is largely linked to the risk of the borrower.

You never really want to see a chief executive leave this early on, but Segal's main targets -- the IPO and staffing up -- are largely done. The company can now bring on someone more operationally focused.

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

This is going to be largely invisible to the end user.

This is not an ownership question at all. This is largely a branding, a marketing, a licensing arrangement. It has absolutely nothing to do with ownership. It's a business arrangement.

This is really much more important than OPEC supply as their spare capacity is largely heavy and sour and the real shortage is capacity to upgrade such fuels anyway.

This is such a new market for advertisers that only some are willing to test the waters before knowing what they're getting for their money. They see the value of videogame advertising in that this is a highly sought-after demographic and difficult to reach through other media. And they'll base their decisions on some of our data that we're doing in a custom fashion. But, for video game advertising to hit critical mass, we need to have that ongoing metric. That's when we'll see explosive growth, like the 56% compounded annual growth we saw in Internet advertising, which we believe is largely due to the measurability of that medium. We think we're going to see similar types of compounded annual growth for video games once we get measurement.

The valley's office vacancy rates decreased by 4 percentage points from a year ago, an unheard of drop in such a short period of time. The drop in net absorption in the first quarter is largely the result of a lack of quality office space, not an indication of weak demand.

The U.S. side has politicized the trade issue and largely neglected international practices, which makes it very difficult for people to expect any substantial results from the talks.

The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.

This decrease is largely due to smaller-than-expected fruit size.

This also suggests that retailers may be better off targeting customers within a few-mile radius of their store locations rather than broadcasting a wider marketing net. Households with incomes under $49,000 and heads of households under 44 -- largely those groups whom you would expect to be undergoing life changes such as marriage, children, rising income, or possibly a new home -- were the most likely to report spending more this season.

Although the payment is in one sense largely symbolic, it has also made a difference for many, many elderly and in some cases very needy people.

A lot of students that come out of this program may not go to work for Electronic Arts. They may go to Wall Street. Because to me, there is no significant difference - except for clothing preference - between people who are making games and people who are manipulating huge database systems to try to figure out where the markets are headed. It's largely the same skill set, the critical thinking. Games are becoming a major part of our lives, and there is actually good news in that.

This practice largely had been corrected by 1997. As we have said in the past, on all regulatory matters we are committed to being as cooperative as possible.

This practice largely had been corrected by 1997,

This might increase people's motive to hold more foreign currency, thus largely decreasing our country's risk on foreign currency.

There's been administrative chaos. There's no other way to explain it other than to say the system has largely broken down.

The relatively high voter turn-out and the fact that the polling was conducted in a largely free, fair and peaceful manner attests to the determination of the Congolese people to participate in deciding their nation's future.

The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves

A strong payrolls gain was largely telegraphed by the jobless claims decline and shouldn't be a big shock to markets if wages aren't too threatening. Wages are advancing a fairly tame pace.

As with most animal eggs, the early events of amphibian development are largely independent of the environment, and the processes leading to cell differentiation must involve a redistribution and interaction of constituents already present in the fertilized egg.

A bunch of problems that we have ahead of us are largely because of these tax cuts. They are very costly and will contribute significantly to budget deficits in the future.

It's a time-consuming process. It would not be unusual to find most people do not want to do that indefinitely. It's also a process where the rewards are largely internal; school board members get an inordinate share of the blame when things don't go well and very little of the credit when things do go well.

It's a big number, what impact it is going to have is largely dependent on the scheduling.

It was extremely, extremely quiet. It's largely a handful of stocks again that are leading the market. I'd like to see more breadth to the marketplace. It's like the dog days of summer, as they call it: not very much activity.

It's a way of helping people to learn more about the great patrimony of Catholic music that's been largely neglected by the church since the Second Vatican Council.

It's a bill that has been driven largely by the music industry, so there's very little to address the concerns that I think the education community ought to have.

It's a huge market and largely untapped right now. Kids want phones, but nothing really deals with their parents' concerns. This will quickly spread to all of the wireless services.

It's not easy to fill the gap, ... I think, largely because of his effectiveness as a leader, he became a target.

It's a lot to do in a short time when you're largely unknown and look like you're somewhat of a reluctant candidate because you certainly weren't in this at the opening bell. The to-do list is very long.

It looks like the decline has been generated largely because of excess optimism in the housing construction market a month ago which was not sustained.

It may sound strange that we are still talking life saving two weeks after the disaster, when search and rescue operations have largely finished.

it's appropriate and reasonable for prosecutors to use their discretion, particularly when the legal standards are under review for possible change. Email evidence has formed the evidentiary record for many SEC enforcement actions in recent years, made possible largely because our regulations require broker dealers to keep certain required records.

It's largely symbolic. I don't think that it will have practical effect.

It's largely reflecting the time constraints on the part of shoppers. Doing all the test-driving and research at auto dealers means that they are not at malls and department stores and restaurants.

It's largely in control of the Russian government,

It's largely because the mail I received from Joey was postmarked 'Chicago'... that just says something to me.

It's largely a smoke screen. At best it's a modest (gas mileage) increase in one category of car. At worst, it will actually promote larger vehicle production by manufacturers who game the system.

It's largely a matter of your trust in the person taking your order.

It's been an animal that's been largely ignored and gone unnoticed over the years. It is a very secretive animal that has just disappeared quietly.

Despite costing in excess of 1 million per annum to provide, the continuation and availability of the home care, day care and bereavement support services have been ensured largely by the generosity and support of the people of Galway. Without this support, these services would simply cease to exist.

Domain names themselves hardly matter anymore. We get to where we are going with search engines anyway. It's a largely symbolic battle.

The new properties are opening in relatively underserved areas with high population growth, and we expect they will largely expand the market.

Then the architecture of how to build the electronic hardware and software is also done here. It is the next phase, the implementation of producing the microchips and software that largely will be done in India.

The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.

The obesity epidemic in the U.S. can be largely explained by our inactive, over-indulgent lifestyle behaviors. It is possible that viruses may play a role in setting us up for becoming overweight, similar to how our genes may be programmed to lead to obesity under the right circumstances.

It's not an easy business to be in. The market is largely efficient. These funds will only do well if they find inefficiencies in the market and (are) able to exploit them to the point where they are more than compensating for the cost of executing those strategies.

Education for many people would be the core copyright issue, yet it's largely neglected in this bill,

Efforts to restrain growth in mandatory spending are vital - not just for our near-term deficit reduction efforts - but especially for the long term. Toward the end of the next decade, deficits stemming largely from entitlement programs ... will begin to rise indefinitely. No plausible amount of spending cuts in discretionary accounts or tax increases could possibly solve this problem.

The biggest difference between an athlete like Michael Jordan or someone we always compare Jeff to is the fact that those guys can rely largely on their athletic ability. In our world, no matter how good your athletic ability or your driving ability, you still depend largely on whether you've got the car to get the job done.

The Bank of England will be pleased to see that producer output prices remained largely contained in December, but less good news is the further sharp increase in input prices as gas prices soared.

That has a lot of potential because, at this point, it's largely undeveloped.

suggestion that football players, sex parties, as some have coined them, I think is largely inaccurate.

It's clear that a significant portion of market demand was at the very low end of the PC market in the fourth quarter, driven largely by aggressive pricing and promotions.

It's by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western hemisphere, and yet the plight of these people remains a largely untold story.

It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of.

It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees or displaced people in their home country. It is a huge proportion of the population that depends largely on international aid.

It was an OK quarter from the top line perspective, but the results were weaker than expected, largely due to the floor care business.

It was largely in line with what people wanted, and people wanted some upside, especially in the guidance for 2006 as well.

Nominal spending was held down by a 0.4% energy-induced plunge in the PCE deflator, so real spending rose a hefty 0.7%. A rebound in auto sales after the awful October was largely responsible for this.

It will largely be determined by how the companies meet expectations and set future expectations,

They did a great job of creating the hype. The 360 has largely been out-of-stock at retail since its launch last November. So clearly, selling out is one sign of performance, but you can't say that its market potential has been even close to tested with the limited supplies available.

They will both be guys that you'll see a lot of in Spring Training. That's one of the things we want to accomplish this spring. Guys who fit into our plan, we want to get a good look at. Our Triple-A club is largely going to be a prospect club. Two of those prospects are Franklin and Brad.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

These studies that are referenced in the new labeling are largely updated analyses from the data that was the justification for the change in September.

This is largely expected and should not be taken too negatively,

This is largely because of the efforts of Janie and her husband. What they did as far as attaining income with securing new tapes not only helped current revenues but will show in future revenues as well.

Nothing more manifestly distinguishes the Anglo-Saxon than his intense and persistent energy, and he is developing in the United States an energy which, in eager activity and effectiveness, is peculiarly American. This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

The new campus is largely in response to the growth in population Central Florida has experienced.

The nation can't afford that kind of inefficiency, red tape and inflated costs when we have an entire region to rebuild, largely at taxpayer expense,

After that he was largely excluded by the family and, the evidence suggests, rejected by his mother over the last four years of his life.

After that, as energy growth slows, it will all depend on the health of the national economy and that, in turn, will largely depend upon the fate of the housing market.

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

Small business owners are getting stuck holding the bag for this growing -- but largely unpublicized -- problem of credit card fraud for merchants.