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The outlook for technology stocks is becoming increasingly positive. Hewlett-Packard released some good numbers and it looks like this is becoming a very good quarter for Dell.

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 accounting for Katrina suggests growth will slow in both the third and fourth quarter due to slower consumer spending.

What we'd like to hear from Cisco is that visibility going into the next quarter is better but we probably won't get that because there still isn't much clarity about business spending.

We have a problem playing in the third quarter and that showed tonight. We just fall behind and have to find a way to fight back into it. If I knew why we were a bad third-quarter team, I would make those changes. It's a mystery to me.

We are targeting the second-best quarter in the company's history, second only to last quarter, with revenue of about $4.3bn.

We're looking to a better fourth quarter as opposed to the earlier part of the year.

We're happy, very happy. We were very happy that he was able to close, that's his style. Fernando has been on him his previous three or four races, and he always comes running late. So, we were happy that he showed that same run today again, especially against this caliber of horse. It looks like he will like a mile and a quarter and we are sure looking forward to the opportunity.

This quarter we made further progress toward achieving consistent top-line growth in our business. It completes a transition year in which the company delivered solid unit case volume growth that was well balanced between carbonated soft drinks and noncarbonated beverages.

This quarter we kicked some major bottom out there,

This quarter was positive for us in many ways. We experienced record growth in our business, moved these volumes more efficiently and improved our bottom-line results. Most importantly, we provided better service to our customers.

This quarter was a great way to kick-off 2006. We attribute our success to our ability to meet the rising demand for software services that help online marketers and IT managers more effectively manage and deliver their Web sites. Throughout 2006, we expect this momentum to continue as we debut additional services and integration with strategic partners while upholding our unparalleled standard for customer service.

This quarter's significant increase in revenue and improved results over last quarter reflect that we have gained traction in the marketplace and restored operational rigor.

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

This quarter delivered exceptionally strong applications performance driven by the successful integration of PeopleSoft,

This promotion recognizes the considerable contribution Bruce has made to our company's transition to local search since joining us in the third quarter of 2005. He has put in place the structure needed to achieve our goal of being #1 in local search. Our team has a much tighter focus and the authority and accountability they need to achieve our objectives.

There are very few horses that can go with this horse for the first half-mile. He runs the second quarter as fast, if not faster, than the first quarter and he can finish from there. He's an exceptional animal, and it is really going to take an exceptional animal to beat him.

There are very few horses that can go with this horse for the first half- mile. He runs the second quarter almost as fast as the first quarter, and he can finish from there. He's an exceptional animal, and it is really going to take an exceptional animal to beat him. Getting on a horse like this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

There are various estimates about the third quarter impact. Our CEA (Council of Economic Advisers) numbers are somewhere between a half and one percentage point on growth. That would still probably leave us at a decent rate of growth for the third quarter.

There are various estimates about the third quarter impact, ... Our CEA (Council of Economic Advisers) numbers are somewhere between a half and one percentage point on growth. That would still probably leave us at a decent rate of growth for the third quarter.

The profits numbers will be mostly dismissed in the first quarter as a casualty of war. Now we'll see how much momentum we can pick up from the reverse of war negativity.

We've secured three pieces of relocated business from New Orleans that helped an otherwise slow first quarter and we'll be giving back nearly $1 million to the New Orleans hospitality relief program.

When you're 1-9 and down 22 at the half, it's nice to see they didn't quit. That's a good sign. I told the kids early in the third quarter that we were still in this thing. They didn't pack it in.

We had been in that situation and not able to come back. It was almost like, 'Here we go.' It just felt like three or four minutes into the first quarter we were missing opportunities.

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

We had a very good fourth quarter for employment.

We needed a win bad. But we can't continue to play like this. . . . This has been four games in a row now. But I'm going to be positive. It was a good win for us. We needed it bad. I don't know how many points we scored in the fourth quarter (12) but we've got to finish fourth quarters off better. We'll take it. All day long. But we've got to play better against Chicago. Much better.

The only good news about the first quarter is that it's over,

We were dealt some adversity in the fourth quarter and we handled it very effectively in this game. We were able to drive the ball at the end. I wanted to go down there and score and not leave them any time on the clock.

We were committed to continuing a high level of investment in marketing this quarter to the extent that we could maintain earnings per share and generate positive cash flow, and that is precisely what we did,

We were cold there in the third quarter on the outside, so we had to go inside - which was good.

We were cold from the floor. Then we came out in the third quarter with a full-court press, and it paid off for us. We were able to control the game the rest of the way.

We were close to doing what we were taught and what I expect. But the third quarter threw that off.

We were climbing uphill all night long. We thought if we could have had a normal quarter offensively and not be in the hole down by 20 points like we were in the first quarter, then we'd be OK.

We needed 20 percent economic growth in the third quarter to get rid of all of the excess capacity in the economy. The Fed is still going to be concerned about disinflation.

When we started, less than a quarter (of Tour competitors) were women. Now it's over half.

The plan was to play a quarter and assess the situation but I felt so great that I ended up playing the first half.

We made a nice run to cut it to two in the second quarter but I think we got leg-tired. They had that run in the third quarter and just took control from there.

We made a nice little run. We had a chance to cut it to nine, but we just couldn't get any closer. I played all my seniors in the fourth quarter and they played hard...they could have quit being down 20 points, but they didn't.

We made a great run at the end of the third. I feel that if we would've started the fourth quarter with a basket instead of a turnover, things would've been a lot different.

We're completing the first quarter now, but we're still getting data from the fourth quarter. This is old news. I fail to see what relevance this will have for the market today.

L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:"The work was free. Keep it so."Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this - look to source writings, not to interpretations. Look to the original work, not offshoots. If I have fought for a quarter of a century, most of it alone, to keep this work from serving to uphold the enslavers of Man, to keep it free from some destructive "pitch" or slant, then you certainly can carry that motif a little further. I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

Machine tool orders for November continued to indicate a steady demand for new capital equipment as we pushed through the last quarter of 2005.

Leg quarter prices have fallen from a record level of 50 cents a pound last fall to 29 cents a pound today and still seem to be falling. We believe at least some of this is due to consumer concern in the export markets regarding avian influenza.

Lots of guys don't want the ball in the fourth quarter in the last three minutes of the game. I think that is the easiest time of the game to get the ball. So I try and get the ball and do the things I can do.

Look what he's done. He's brought a program back, and that's a big thing. He's the leader of the team. A lot of people say his stats aren't as good as Reggie Bush and all theirs, but shoot, he was out by the third quarter every game. We helped him do that, so it's cool. I love it, it's awesome.

Layton's always kind of been the barometer of where we're at as a team. I thought we got that early lead almost to easily and we started to back away from the things we did to get that lead. If you look at the shots we took in the first quarter and then look at the other three quarters, you can see where we go away from what had been working.

Last year's third quarter was the best the industry ever had. There were companies who made as much in a year in their prior histories as they made that quarter, ... This is going to be a - terrible third quarter.

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Last year, quarterly mobile phone shipments didn't reach 200 million units until the end of the fourth quarter when vendors were keeping the channels' shelves stocked for the holiday rush. As vendors announced new products earlier this year and accelerated their time to market, we've already reached this milestone.

Led by growth in our core brands including Barbie, Fisher-Price and Hot Wheels, Mattel has experienced increased sales domestically for the third quarter in a row,

Many of these grants exemplify our new direction to empower organizations with start-up funding. This quarter our board recognized several non-profit applicants who were beginning innovative projects in our priority areas of community development, economic development, education and social needs.

Many of the energy sector earnings have been revised up recently, and that includes forecasts for the second quarter and for the full year.

Seven weeks ago at our Dec. 7 earnings announcement, we projected a falloff in the current quarter of 10 percent based on slowness in the wireless market, PCs and peripherals, and a broad-based distribution inventory correction.

Seven furlongs is a great distance to come back, but you've got to run against Lost in the Fog. On the other hand, the mile-and-a-quarter Travers, I don't think the competition is as good as Lost in the Fog, but that mile and a quarter - he hasn't run in four months. He's an amazing horse. He's developed; he's gotten taller and longer. He's got a lot of ability. Hopefully, if he can duplicate his Wood Memorial (G1), you'll see what kind of horse he is.

SDSU has for the last quarter of a century sort of bridled at the basic mission statement of the CSU and has extended beyond the teaching of undergraduates. We expect more from our faculty than that.

Second quarter was crucial because we were down and we could have quit. (The bench) got us back in the game. Mariah was just great.

Second quarter is going to be excellent. Remember when the first quarter was reported in April, we had a 1,000-point gain in the Dow, and that was only a 10-percent (earnings) gain.

Second quarter earnings are very likely to be satisfactory in aggregate. A number of visible companies have warned of disappointments, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Earnings growth will probably be in the high-teens range when everything is tallied up.

Second quarter earnings are going to be a very pleasant surprise. A quarter point increase won't even cause the economy to sneeze. It's so modest it will not be a factor.

Seasonal weakness in the U.S. and a pause in spending in Japan lead to expectations for a sequential decline in sales for the first time since the second quarter of 2002, which is consistent with our outlook for a challenging first-half 2006 operating environment for communications equipment companies.

Semiconductor sales in April are continuing the steady growth exhibited in the first quarter of this year, another sign that the industry is rebounding from 2001,

Selling on the news has been the mantra for second-quarter earnings season. What's more has been the bull's inability to piece together any kind of winning streak. With sustainability in question and anxiety abounding about tomorrow's (Thursday's) Employment Cost Index and Friday's second quarter GDP, few players are willing to step up to the plate today.

Selling homes this first quarter was certainly more difficult than one year ago.

Selling, general, and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales and operating revenues increased slightly to 11.4% in this year's third quarter from 11.3% in last year's quarter. As expected, the moderate rate of increase in unit comps was not sufficient to provide SG&A leverage. Having a larger percentage of our store base comprised of stores not yet at basic maturity and last year's lower-than-normal corporate bonuses were also contributing factors. At the end of this year's third quarter, 49% of our stores were less than four years old, compared with 40% at the end of last year's third quarter.

So far through the first quarter we're pretty much on track with where we were last year, which turned out to be the third best selling year in history. However, it's still difficult to know if the big incentives that were implemented last year and pushed some monthly sales to near record levels will return and have a significant impact on the remainder of the year.

Software companies have a nasty habit of doing so much of their business in the last moments of the quarter that they typically only confess once the quarter has come to a close.

So I think when they report today, you want to take a look into the numbers and see what the ad revenues were for last quarter and, indeed, as this year progresses.

She was very bold when she said that she would hit that 12 to 15 percent revenue growth number, and she is hitting it in the first quarter after she said it.

She was struggling to stay there. She was aggressive for the first quarter of a mile. She's a better filly than she showed today.

She was struggling to stay there, ... She was aggressive for the first quarter of a mile. She's a better filly than she showed today.

She was just awesome, simply awesome. She's an amazing player and her performance in the second quarter was incredibly impressive.

On an available-seat-mile basis, our fuel expense was 11.9 per cent higher in the first quarter of 2006 versus the same period in 2005. We managed to mitigate this expense with the early retirement of our less fuel-efficient 200-series aircraft.

On a Halloween weekend, the French Quarter would be packed,

Some consumers will certainly delay PC purchases until Vista is available, but we expect the delay to shift only moderate volume from the fourth quarter of 2006 into 2007 and will not cause a loss of sales.

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Should the weak economic tone persist into early second quarter data, the risk of a summer rate cut increases.

Should the growth rate finish above 10 percent, the fourth quarter of 2005 will mark the 10th consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings growth for the Standard & Poor's 500 index.

Simmons came alive at the end of the second quarter and carried it over.

Signs of financial stress still are present. The persistent interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve and record high gas prices in the third quarter provided a one-two punch that continued to inflict pain on personal budgets.

Signals for the immediate future point to continued expansion, although not at the breakneck pace of the fourth quarter of 1999, ... The biggest risk to the ongoing expansion continues to be interest-rate increases and the prospect of still more Federal Reserve Board action.

She had a real nice game. She hit two key 3-pointers to start the third quarter to put us ahead and we stayed ahead for the rest of the game.

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

She had two steals in that quarter for us, and I think that got us the momentum back. We emphasize defense in practice. Those are the things you need to win games.

She always amazes me. At the beginning of the game, I really thought she was struggling. I think she wanted to come out and do something. The fourth quarter was good for her.

Shaquille had his way inside with us, especially at the end of the third quarter and into the fourth.

Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going sideways. Rates are on hold until the third quarter of this year.

Since quarter end, market conditions for our primary products have continued to weaken resulting in significant declines in average selling prices and higher inventory levels,

Most of the time, the fourth quarter is a pretty good measuring point. You can take it to a certain point, and then you get your seconds and thirds in there, and then you want to see them do well. ... You don't want them taking a knee, because that would be the worst thing.

Most oil companies will exceed estimates. If they don't, then there is probably a big problem underlying that. Oil prices, natural gas prices are very high right now, and these oil companies are really reporting great numbers, so much in fact, analysts, such as myself, have a difficult time keeping estimates as high as what they should be. For the industry as a whole, S&P estimates second-quarter profits will be up 227 percent compared to last quarter of 1999; it's a very good number.

Mobile phone shipments in the first quarter are likely to be flat or better than those in the fourth quarter on launches of new handset models.

Mining, oil and gas stocks are critical for the UK -- it is a quarter of the market -- and obviously there is a bit of nervousness around those sectors. Have they run too far?

Momentum has been consolidated at quite a high level with strength coming mainly from mainland Chinese demand. This should be sustained through the first quarter of next year.

Momentum behind the business continues to grow, and during the first quarter we gained five new licensees with three additional licenses signed with existing partners.

Milwaukee came back in the second quarter and made a game of it.

Much to everyone's surprise, eBay seems to have had a much better quarter across several crossover categories.

Most who have been looking at the fourth quarter view that as a blip rather than a trend and expect a continued strong economy.

Mental mistakes absolutely, but I am happy with the effort we are getting. We work so hard, but sometimes in the fourth quarter experience takes over.

One of the things we emphasized tonight was the third quarter. Usually we have a slow third quarter with or without the lead and we outscored them by nine and that was something we were looking for.

One quarter of a little domestic growth is not all we need, but it's clearly better than another quarter of decline.