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We believe the key questions surrounding Microsoft's security strategy are centered on how they plan to distribute these products, how they will structure subscription services and how they will approach license pricing,

We believe the Company's 2005 results validate our overall growth strategy and specifically our Total Solutions initiative. During 2006, we will remain focused on growing our top line and improving margins by managing productivity and costs within our businesses. I have never been more confident in our ability to achieve sustainable and profitable growth.

We have thought it through, but we don't want to tip our hand. We need to see how all of this plays itself out. It's hard to execute a strategy until we know that. But we're still going to lead and still set the terms as much as we can.

We have the same feeling, the same strategy on how to contain nuclear proliferation.

Trends 2006 is a compendium of good practice corporate reporting examples. These companies recognize that making both financial and non-financial information accessible is a competitive advantage. They are committed to communicating the kind of information investors want, showing a clear linkage between strategy and performance.

We can apply the strategy of the company to the data and allow you to get a higher order of understanding of it by rolling it up appropriately against your strategy. It really becomes a complex network of business performance indicators. That is where you break away from just financial numbers.

We aren't going to try and pretend to know where rates are headed, where the market is headed or what stocks will shine. That said, we do believe that the dominant equity strategy has begun to shift, and there are more and better foreign equities to invest in. To have a perfect asset allocation strategy, you need more exposure to foreign stocks.

We are well aware of our challenges and we have a well-thought-out strategy for improving our North American business.

The presence of fish and angling demonstrates a healthy environment -our strategy outlines how we will meet new challenges such as climate change and invasive species while increasing tourism, encouraging greater participation in fishing and continuing to create a better quality of life for local communities.

We are committed to excellent customer service, superior operating performance and solid credit quality as we continue our efforts to build shareholder value through our balanced growth strategy of strong internal growth, complemented by selective de novo and merger expansion.

We are disappointed that Sears has made a change in its approach at this late stage and won't be part of the beComing venture, ... We have always viewed retail as a long-term strategy for Avon. We are as committed as ever to our retail initiative.

We are delighted to have increased our ownership stake in the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. This transaction is firmly in line with our strategy to acquire and consolidate the minority stakes in hotels that we already own.

We are delighted that the Piedmont Triad proposal was selected for this grant. The WIRED grant gives us both the financial and technical resources to develop an integrated strategy to restore the Piedmont Triad's global economic competitiveness.

Those national percentages are pretty reflective of (giving to) UWS. Our most productive strategy is to reach out to individuals. One of my main responsibilities is traveling throughout the United States talking to alumni, cultivating relationships and asking people to contribute to the university. There's kind of a rule in fundraising that 90 percent of your support comes from 10 percent of your donors. The greatest return is really from those individual relationships and from those individuals who make those major gifts.

Unfortunately the situation in New Orleans is a microcosm of our nation as a whole. Although our reliance on foreign savings and production are widely known, and most economists accept the fact that a real economic disaster would ensue should foreigners discontinue such subsidies, dump their hoards of U.S. treasuries, and refuse to exchange real goods for paper dollars. However, rather than perusing policies to rebalance our economy, we simply do nothing, and hope that day of reckoning never arrives. However, just as that strategy backfired in New Orleans , so, too, will it for America as a whole.

Unfortunately the situation in New Orleans is a microcosm of our nation as a whole. Although our reliance on foreign savings and production are widely known, and most economists accept the fact that a real economic disaster would ensue should foreigners discontinue such subsidies, dump their hoards of U.S. treasuries, and refuse to exchange real goods for paper dollars. However, rather than perusing policies to rebalance our economy, we simply do nothing, and hope that day of reckoning never arrives. However, just as that strategy backfired in New Orleans, so, too, will it for America as a whole.

We'll look at the film and try to come up with a strategy to combat that. We'll go over there and battle as best we can.

Today, we have the business platform we need to compete with the strongest carriers and a clear strategy of offering the right service to the right customer at the right price.

Thus far our strategy has failed to achieve our political objectives,

We remain committed to our successful strategy of growth through multiple sales channels, driven by high-margin private label and Sharper Image Design proprietary products,

We are pursuing a dual strategy in China. First, we have outstanding W-CDMA know-how and the sales successes to match. Second, we assumed a pioneering role for TD-SCDMA in China at the right time.

We are planning to developing a strategy which will give us 20 wickets in a match as in the last four encounters we were unable to do so for a victory.

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.

The overall work-force development strategy must address all of these concerns and more if the industry is going to be in a position to provide the kind of quality service and attention that our visitors will demand.

The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border.

The overall loss increase is, in the main, down to some exceptional items that were necessary in order to help us achieve our strategic business aim of break even by 2009-10. In simple terms, we have taken some pain now for long-term gain. He appreciates that this is a long-term strategy and he supports where we are and where we are going.

The outstanding result achieved by MANN-FILTER for services and product quality reaffirms our strategy of offering top-quality products and providing outstanding service to our original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket customers. Our customers can be assured that they can continue to expect world-class products and services in the future.

The pattern of detaining, releasing and detaining Aung San Suu Kyi is symbolic of the one step forward, two steps back strategy the regime has perpetrated on the entire country.

What you see is that marketing rules the response to influenza, and scientific evidence comes fourth or fifth. Vaccines may have a role, but they appear to have a modest effect. The best strategy to prevent the illness is to wash your hands.

We discussed the strategy for the upcoming assembly polls and we decided to strengthen the Left Democratic Front (LDF). We have decided that we will have no electoral understanding or alliance with any other parties.

We are not interested in becoming the Saudi Arabia of ethanol. It's not our strategy because it doesn't produce results. As a large producer and user, I need to have other big buyers and sellers in the international market if ethanol is to become a commodity, which is our real goal.

We are not going to build a whole strategy around him. Hey, we all know he is a very good hockey player. We think we have 22 very good hockey players.

We plan to consistently execute this strategy through 2002 and exit the year as a robust, growing company with more than $1 billion in cash and an intensely satisfied customer base.

We're looking as part of our strategy for the long-term sustainability of the centers at other opportunities to raise funds.

We still have to improve our conditioning, strategy and mentality. The improvement really will not stop until the end of the year.

We are confident that these decisions are right for Mervyn?s future growth and success, and are consistent with the strategy that we announced in September 2005.

This national alliance with Spot Runner is another example of our strategy to equip our real estate brand affiliates and our company-owned brokerage operations with the latest in technology and marketing tools that help set them apart from the competition.

We adopt this strategy now because there's an urgency to this debate. Over time, the space of free expression has shrunk.

To me, the whole strategy is how to communicate information to a group of people. People tune out if you don't hold their attention.

We are looking for just a general manager, ... He will set the strategy and the tone. We are just hiring one person.

We recognized there were tens of millions of fans of the book ... and therefore we followed a strategy to make a movie that would be true to the book.

We're especially pleased that our vendors and suppliers are also investing in our business. It demonstrates that they believe in our strategy and have confidence in our continued success.

Volunteers really are the heart and soul of our communities, but many potential volunteers think that opportunities to become involved are not open to them, or that red tape is standing in their way. This strategy is all about removing barriers, so that anyone who wants to volunteer can feel empowered to take part.

Upon entering the final quarter of our fiscal year 2006, we remain encouraged by the strength of our operations, particularly as it relates to our ongoing efforts to develop a culture of cost efficiency throughout the Company. As we consider attempting to leverage our managed care expertise in and around the Southeastern United States, we remain committed to executing on a strategy of disciplined, opportunistic growth, guided by the mandate to build value for our shareholders.

This would also be consistent with a strategy designed to run up high vote totals in New York in areas of the state where the right will try to tell people that she cannot perform well.

The question is, what kind of acquisition can they make? The company has been extremely tight-lipped as to what their long term strategy is.

The pro-life community is divided on what the best strategy is.

Time Warner is pulling out the heavy guns, there's no doubt they are taking this seriously. This counter-point situation is quite similar to a political campaign, where both sides have a war room. One side is lining out a strategy and the other is responding.

Toy retailers and manufacturers are trying a different strategy so that they don't keep coming back to the same places. In some instances, it's a strategic decision. Toymakers need to expand their options in order to grow their market share. It's also a way out if Wal-Mart rejects their products.

This strategy of integrated innovation has just caused the whole company to go into gridlock,

This strategy makes a lot of sense for us. There's a golden opportunity for us in DVD.

This strategy is an important component of the overall anti-terror strategy. What I've witnessed is very, very disturbing.

This strategy could be successful in markets that are multi-cultural with assimilated Hispanic populations, such as California, Florida and Texas,

Today's Borland news is indicative that Serena's Change Governance strategy is the right one and validates what we see as critical in addressing changing customer needs.

Wednesday's the teaser, Thursday's the Full Monty. We should get a look at their R&D (research and development) strategy, pipeline, commercial strategy and an update on cost-cutting.

We worked very hard, naturally -- because of our misfortune and the mistakes we made in the last weeks -- to make up ground and here we are, and we've made up significant ground. Obviously the race is important -- this is one step towards it -- but seeing where Fernando, in particular, is it's great for us in terms of first strategy and hopefully result as well by the end of the race.

We want to maintain the strategy at this very moment which is producing results rapidly,

We began an aggressive reading strategy through Reading First two years ago in nearly 100 elementary schools with low reading achievement across the state. These efforts, which involve students in the early grades, will show up on NAEP measures in future years, and will give us a roadmap for expanding this approach to providing professional development, building leadership and strengthening reading instruction in more schools in our state.

The data available today emphasizes the multifold strengths of our alliance strategy resulting into a leading position towards time-to-market, figure-of-merits, and manufacturing flexibility by pooling significant R&D resources as also exploiting a huge amount of intellectual capital.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had a strategy not to target Alabama.

We've built a brand and a platform that can grow through to profitability. We have a great strategy in place. We just have to execute, execute, execute, execute.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

We want to be able to service our customers' needs. Our vertical integration strategy allows us to do that for conventions and meetings at full-service properties, transient business at select-service properties and to fill extended-stay needs.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

The deal gives us reach to some 283 countries, ... It also gives us a facilities-based strategy to provide universal service to our customers.

We'll talk a little more about strategy and closing out points. When they're up, they need to stay up.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

Bush explained his strategy for transfer of power. It's a two part plan. Part one: clean out his desk. Part two: rent a U-Haul.

We used the same strategy that we've used the last three or four games. But once again, I think it was the hard work and the focus that's showing what type of team we really are.

We should recognize that most Americans are focused on an exit strategy in Iraq. Even if withdrawal timelines are deemed unwise because they might provide a strategic advantage to the insurgency, the American people need to more fully understand the basis upon which our troops are likely to come home.

We shouldn't avoid the fact that Pakistan has some misgivings about China's strategy in South Asia, and we need to strengthen mutual confidence.

Wal-Mart has identified a strategy of urban expansion, and they're not going to walk away from it, ... They know that operating in an urban market is different from the suburbs and I'm sure they were already aware of things like zoning laws. Did they really need to put up a fight in Inglewood? No. What they did here is lay down the marker. Wal-Mart is saying that they've identified a new market and they're going to move it and attack.

The real soldiers, who created the strategy and implemented the strategy, have been with the company for three years or longer.

There are many research reports that try to compare the number of vulnerabilities between Linux and other operating systems but none take into account the severity of the issues. ... This report shows there are relatively few critical issues affecting users of Linux-based operating systems. However, we believe even one is unsatisfactory, and our strategy is to rapidly respond to fix these issues whilst innovating new technology to reduce the risk of future issues.

We believe the blend of investments in companies in various sectors, as well as the representation in multiple cap sizes, provides distinctive portfolio diversification and balance. This strategy helps us to remain flexible and to truly be on the lookout for opportunities that are worthy of investment, regardless of the size or sector of the company.

While our revenue performance in the quarter was negatively impacted by our own strategic decision to focus on more profitable revenue streams going forward, this is a strategy that should yield healthier shareholder returns both now and in the future.

While other global media companies are struggling with transition and the search for strategic and structural reorientation, the cornerstone of our traditional strategy has once again proven its worth,

We like to cluster. That is our strategy and we will continue to pursue that. We may not be able to do that initially when we open in a market, but in a year to two years we hope to open multiple locations in a market.

We view this strategy as practical, both from an investment and time-to-market standpoint as reentering the access market with its own products only would be difficult after exiting.

We closely considered MOO. We felt that a symbol (like GTW) that reflected Gateway was more appropriate for the long-term strategy of our business. If we wanted to implement a multi-branded approach down the line, it gives us more flexibility.

We closely considered MOO, ... We felt that a symbol (like GTW) that reflected Gateway was more appropriate for the long-term strategy of our business. If we wanted to implement a multi-branded approach down the line, it gives us more flexibility.

We have been looking at Hertz for more than three years and believe it fits squarely within our investment strategy a complex corporate divestiture of a market-leading business with a powerful franchise and opportunities for profitable growth.

We have been exploring a strategy for entering the Asian marketplace for some time and have indicated that our entrance into this hugely populated market would be through one of our existing brands. These cruises represent a first step in this initiative and will serve as a platform for future expansion into other areas of Asia. Although all of our brands are virtually unknown in China, we chose Costa because it is already very international in nature, serving guests of many different nationalities, languages and cultures.

We do have a well-thought-out strategy for improving North American operations, and we're rapidly implementing that strategy.

We do have a peak deployment strategy that sees more officers on the road on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. It's a continual study. If there's a change in trend and (officers) do need to re-evaluate where they need to be, they have the statistics.