Provider Quotations

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?

The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.

We are proud that, with the introduction of this new truck, we have achieved Sterling's vision of being a full-line provider of vocational trucks. Not only is this a logical next step in the growth of the company, but it also provides a platform for future product introductions.

We believe that most of the issues impacting Lucent's September quarter results are company specific. Even increasing bad debt reserves because of emerging service provider credit concerns reflects Lucent's aggressive policy towards providing vendor financing.

We're making this investment because Verified is not only first, but the only private provider of Registered Traveler services. So far the program has been very successful.

United Tote is the technology provider for many of the premier racing facilities in the world. These customers understand what's needed to succeed in today's technology driven business climate.

We're a Web-based project management provider so we'd better be able to eat our own dog food and work as a distributed organization.

Ultimately, dialing up an Internet Service Provider will be treated as a long- distance phone call. Everything about the FCC's analysis indicates that this will cause a price increase for the consumer.

With this new wave of partner alignment around enterprise services, we expect to bring thousands of enterprise services to life for our mutual customers through community collaboration, ... Customers win when the ecosystem collaborates on a timely delivery of innovative technologies that solve deployment and integration issues. This architectural shift is happening now, and SAP is the only solution provider to bring together an enterprise-scale blueprint with ESA, an enabling platform in SAP NetWeaver, an available repository of more than 500 enterprise services, and now with Enterprise Services Community Process, a foundation of a collaborative process for building enterprise services.

We reached a permanent injunction against Sun Healthcare Group, which at the time was the largest provider of nursing home care in California.

The fact is, (we have) a very dynamic place. It changes to meet provider needs, and the staff is really good if people want and need help.

The provider community is not going to pay attention until they see a large number of people,

Lucent will continue to review its internal processes throughout fiscal year 2001, which may result in additional cost structure improvements and associated business restructuring charges as it moves from a multi-divisional company to one with a single focus on the service provider market,

Most people are too scared to ask their medical provider for help. They're afraid that if they ask ... that the next time they have a problem that they won't be able to go back.

Missouri could make huge strides by adopting a state version of the Federal False Claims Act. Millions now wasted by (Medicaid) provider fraud would be available to provide health care to low-income Missouri parents, the elderly and those with disabilities. In 2005, approximately 90,000 low-income Missourians lost their health insurance due to cuts in the Medicaid program.

May you be intelligent, provider of wealth and protector of the path of truth.

Music is a key component of Chevrolet's DNA, and teaming up with a leading online content provider that is AOL for this sponsorship will enable us to reach music fans in a unique, creative way.

Night,the provider of rest and relaxation, is propitious.

Newspapers will, no doubt, also ultimately settle into their own place as the bulk provider of low-cost advertising targets.

One of the key drivers that has helped McAfee transform into a leading global security provider and achieve best in class profitability since 2002 is our research and development centre in India.

One of the problems with postpartum depression is that women usually aren't diagnosed until the disease is already established. If a woman's health care provider knew early on that a patient was slipping down this slope, he or she could intervene. It may not take much to screen for it, either - the questions in the fatigue test that we used took about two to three minutes to answer.

I am a great advocate for what I see as a triangular relationship, ... The MD, the patient, the alternative provider in an open circle of communication.

Caterpillar, the industry's first provider of factory-integrated machine control solutions, continues to be the forerunner in providing innovative machinery and hardware to meet our customers' needs. This second generation of machine control and guidance technology products continues to build on that world-class reputation.

Certainly menopause is a natural biological event, but many women do respond differently and may need intervention by a health care provider to help optimize the quality of their life.

Capital One has done an excellent job in diversifying beyond credit cards to become a provider of a full suite of financial services.

Businesses in particular want convenience, with one device, one bill, one provider for all communication services, one contact point to the provider and the same experience on the move and within buildings.

Given a high likelihood of a slowing economy, moderating demand from the service provider sector, and unexpected first quarter 2001 seasonality, we see an increasingly likelihood of deceleration going forward.

For Qwest, this underscores our commitment to the communities in which we live and work. Not only are we thrilled to grow our relationship with the State of Wyoming, but we're proud to be the network provider to such a successful education network -- one that will benefit all the students in the state, while enhancing the voice and data infrastructure in Wyoming to benefit all citizens and complex business users.

Fundamentally, there is very little genuinely new business about. Much of the new business written is simply premium income that has been recycled from one provider to another.

If a customer calls in and says, 'The network is down,' the service provider without having to send a truck roll can look at his network up to the customer.

If a woman and her health care provider decide that a certain medication like birth control is right for her, it is not appropriate for a pharmacist to second-guess that judgment for personal reasons, ... That is exactly what this regulation allows for.

I don't understand the rationale used in your March review of the best ISPs. What a nightmare! I have had more connection failures and terminations in two days than I had with my old provider in a year.

For the typical customer, their day-to-day interaction with the insurance provider has the greatest impact on their overall impression of the company and its brand. Having a dedicated local agent handling their insurance needs can be a big advantage in creating a lasting relationship between insurer and policyholder. However, some insurance customers with simple needs place less importance on a local agent and several carriers have made big strides in refining their direct communication channels with customers. GEICO, for example, has done an excellent job of attracting new customers and delivering quality service, whether through their Web sites or call centers.

Given the uncertainty on both service provider and corporate IT spending, visibility is the poorest in several years. We expect Cisco to be cautious on its near-term outlook despite indications that business in some segments has improved.

G-Log gives Oracle really good transportation functionality. But just as importantly, it gives them a customer base in the third-party logistics provider space. Many of them are looking to invest in transportation solutions.

If the average is $120 for an office visit, for example, we know that we have to negotiate a better rate if a provider is charging $300.

We're proud to be the number one provider of solar power in America. We were the first company to sell a solar panel in the U.S. in 1978. Now, nearly three decades later, solar energy is one of the best investments people can make anywhere, with as much as a 15% annual return on investment. Try to get that kind of return in the stock market.

We are extremely pleased to extend our collaboration with Campbell, our long-standing partner and a leading global provider of soup, vegetable-based beverages, and other premium quality foods.

Under Bruce's leadership, 3Com developed a strategy to become a leading global provider of secure converged networking solutions for small, medium and large enterprises.

We look forward to David's strategic insight, not only as a global logistics industry veteran, but also as a successful executive familiar with the tremendous value that logistics technology can bring to transportation and logistics services provider markets.

We made significant strides in turning around the business during 2005. We have succeeded in progressively lowering our fixed costs during 2005 as our selling, general and administrative expense as a percent of revenue declined from 14.5% in the first quarter to 12.1% in the fourth quarter. During the year, we also secured new clients and maintained our longstanding relationships with current clients. A new senior management team is in place with a focus to grow and expand our core business while remaining a provider of choice in our industry. We are encouraged with the progress we have made thus far and we will continue to seek opportunities to improve our results and diversify our revenue base in 2006.

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Last fall, Swift & Co. unveiled a new strategic vision to become the best red meat provider in the world. Important components of that vision included the need for innovation and operational excellence. Today, we are announcing investments in our Greeley beef plant that will expand our innovative value-added processing capabilities and strengthen our competitive position in the marketplace.

I think an acquisition of a satellite TV provider would fit an immediate need, and they would continue to invest in their networks to offer network-based services.

It is not in the interest of any cellular service provider to get out ahead of the cost problem. This is simply because the effort would not have an impact on carrier finances except in a bad way.

It is important to retain our strategic relationship with Hughes. We continue to create new communications capabilities and functionality in our vehicles. Hughes has redefined itself as a premier provider of digital entertainment and business communications, which strengthens its ability to contribute to GM's strategy to grow its service-oriented businesses.

It is important to retain our strategic relationship with Hughes, ... We continue to create new communications capabilities and functionality in our vehicles. Hughes has redefined itself as a premier provider of digital entertainment and business communications, which strengthens its ability to contribute to GM's strategy to grow its service-oriented businesses.

Our growth was strong across all measurements -- traffic, unique users, registrations, bookings and revenue -- indicating growing consumer and advertiser validation of Excite as a leading gateway to the Web and as a provider of highly personalized online services,

Parents use the Report Card's indicator values, ratings, and rankings to compare schools when they choose an education provider for their children. When parents already have a child enrolled at a school they use the report cards as an annual audit of how that school is doing academically.

Over the past 12 years, Avid has played an important role as an official provider for the Sundance Film Festival, and we are pleased to see the company continue that commitment in 2006. As hundreds of independent filmmakers converge on Park City over the next two weeks, they'll have unique opportunities to experience some of the best up-and-coming film projects, network with an exceptionally talented peer group, and connect with industry-leaders like Avid - to learn about the latest tools and technologies that can help them improve their craft.

Pacific has quietly grown with key retail customer partners to become the leading salad and fresh-cut fruit and vegetable provider to supermarket delis in the western United States.

Our practice feels badly for any inconvenience that this has caused our patients, ... But we want an environment of stability for the patient, the provider and the payer.

Our goal is to become Westchester's premiere provider of tech support to professional service firms and other clients.

Our Global Procurement and Manufacturing groups partnered to select a provider of contingent labor that would create the most value. Maneuvering the challenges of demand and supply levers relating to contingent labor is not easy, and we selected Staff Management because of their ability to deliver a greater total value and lower total cost of ownership two key factors in our decision.

Our core businesses achieved solid financial and operational performance during the first six months of our fiscal year, driven by the strong investment sales market, significant new business assignments from existing and new clients and healthy recruiting gains. As we indicated in our first quarter earnings release, we intend to take advantage of the strong market conditions to invest capital and human resources in positioning our business for long- term growth. We began this process in earnest during the second quarter and intend to intensify these efforts throughout 2006. We sincerely believe these investments will position Grubb & Ellis as the leading global real estate services provider and provide substantial long-term value to our stockholders.

Our clients require a high degree of certainty in trusting us with their sensitive data and an assurance that their provider meets the highest possible standards. US clients are virtually demanding SAS 70 certification or they are not willing to work with you.

O'Reilly Auto is committed to offering the best combination of price and quality provided with the highest possible service level and having parts that our customers need, in-stock, is essential for us. Manhattan Associates helps us do this with their industry-leading planning and execution solutions. As the only solutions provider to offer the complete footprint for supply chain management, Manhattan Associates will continue to help us meet our needs in the future.

Our objective, which is to become the leading provider of affordable risk, health, savings and investment solutions to lower income earners, is well within our capabilities given our ongoing commitment to genuine economic empowerment.

Our objective was to select an anti-spam and anti-virus provider that complimented our overall corporate strategy of continually providing our customers with 'best-of-breed' solutions. Another key criteria for our search was to implement a solution that would be easy to manage and administer.

Our next goal is to be number one in Canada ... and we can't think of a better content provider to join us than the NHL,

Oracle may benefit from its presence as an Internet infrastructure provider as its applications and databases become more Internet centric.

Sprint is the first major service provider to announce an IP videoconferencing program, ... until now, the service provider has been missing.

Marc is running on the fact that he's a job provider and that he's going to provide economic development. Obviously this is something he'll have to explain.

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Joining forces with Cardinal Health supports Kinray's mission to help retail independent pharmacies serve as an integral provider of care for our evolving health care system.

That's the thing. Under normal circumstances, because we are the provider all the way around the site, you couldn't have a third party come in and provide electricity in an area where we serve.

Michael Bloomberg wants to be a stimulator and a provider and to leave a city that has major development ongoing. It's business, business and business. He wants to force development and in doing so help the private sector in creating jobs.

We continue to believe that aggregate service provider spending in the U.S. will actually grow about 10 percent in 2001, and that our companies will report an average revenue increase of 25 percent next year. Despite this, the average price-earnings multiple of our group is now approaching levels last seen in 1997-98.

When it's multiplied by the number of children you have, it is a substantial raise. I think that people who were not interested before, from a provider standpoint, may rethink it now.

We don't expect any substantial changes. However, if any changes are going to be made, customers will be notified, ... We think long and hard before increasing anyone's rate. We strive to be the low-cost provider and we want to be a part of your community, not just a service provider.

We encourage anyone who thinks there may be an error in their bill to contact their retail electric provider and request that a representative look at their meter. A lot of them will slow down, but we've found that less than one percent are actually over-reading Also keep in mind that this time of year is a peak usage time.

We're also trying to reconcile positions on different issues such as aid and trade. As the largest provider of development aid to the Third World, and the largest trading partner for developing countries, we feel the EU is quite well-placed to play a bridging role.

We are thrilled that such an esteemed international information provider has chosen eMeta to support its digital commerce initiatives as it expands into new markets, ... RightCommerce is a flexible, scalable solution that will help Reuters grow.

We have completed a deal with every major provider of content.

We could not have 12,000 people on the pitch for the gala and then use the same turf for the match on June 12. The problem was that not a single provider would give us guarantees for the proper turf replacement. Nobody would give us these guarantees.

We believe their leading competitors will continue to take market share from Cisco at an accelerated pace throughout the slowdown -- especially in the service provider focused product arena,

We made a specific decision about three years ago that being a liquidity provider in the European government bond markets was a way for Barclays Capital to differentiate itself.

We are hoping that members of our community will take the time to attend our Open House on Friday between 3 and 7 p.m. to learn about our services and to take advantage of all of the wonderful information that will be available at no charge. Parents will be able to enroll their youngsters for services, make appointments, talk to our medical provider and learn how to access our services.

We are doing everything in our power to help Qwest continue to be a leading provider of telecommunications services,

We are pleased that Onyx has been recognized as a leading solution provider in the Enterprise CRM marketplace. Onyx's unique blend of integrated CRM, business process management and analytics empowers our customers every day to increase revenues, decrease costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

We are considering making the service provider that is not meeting the agency's needs bear the cost. We need clear language in the service-level agreements, so providers and agency customers know what is expected of them.

The question is if we do collect a lot of genetic material from people ... are you going to see those people then injured when their health provider or employer uses that information to take away opportunities. At the moment, in the United States particularly, those protections are not in place at a federal level.

The proposed combination of CA and CSC would create the next-generation, world-class information technology services provider that will lead our industry into the next millennium,

We want to be the premier data provider for the customers we serve. This will allow for greater adaptation for converged services.

The criminal justice system is truly the community's primary care provider for people with mental disorders.

The contractor, the provider for this fence was out of South Africa, and they contracted with a company out of California to do the maintenance, and we've just been very, very unhappy, ... We're continuing to hassle with them about getting this fence to the operative condition it should be in. But obviously, last night, it did not function as it should have functioned.

The (contractor) provider is increasingly having more authority on services they are going to provide.

We're much more comfortable with one giant and us as a very small provider because we can make a business out of people who don't like the giant.

There are serious moral and ethical questions that arise when a provider requires you to pay a fee that may not be affordable for everyone.

There is only so much a health care provider could do under such extraordinary circumstances.

The partnership of ZipSurvey(TM) and XToolsCRM combines the unique benefits of two industry-leading software platforms, ... XToolsCRM is the leading provider of On-Demand CRM technology in China and the introduction of ZipSurvey(TM) opens a new alternative for CRM customers seeking to deploy an exceptionally powerful, yet affordable business and customer survey solution.

Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with a $500 phone for virtually nothing. An early-termination fee allows the wireless provider to recoup the costs of giving a phone to a consumer for a steep discount. Without it, you simply have an economic model that doesn't work.

With the announcement today, Sun is making an early move to capture the growing integration market with a complete and affordable Java ES stack to address both security and integration, two of the leading concerns for IT managers today, ... Adding the premier suite for integration and composite application development to the Java ES and then combining with Solaris 10 further establishes Sun as a mainstream, end-to-end provider of software for the development and deployment of enterprise applications. And we're just warming up.

We are excited to be playing a key role in Cisco's execution of their IP next generation network vision. As the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, Cisco recognizes that a policy-driven resource control layer is needed to effectively drive powerful triple-play features. With the Broadband Policy Manager, Cisco is able to empower their service provider customers to tap into the world of high-margin premium IP services that excite and attract both consumer and enterprise subscribers.

Filing for this patent gives notice that Premier Information is looking to define its position as an innovator and solution provider to the insurance and healthcare industries. It is a company wide commitment to develop the products and services...to display the kind of innovative technical leadership that creates customized, value added solutions for our clients.