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The strategy didn't call for them to be this good this soon.

The strategy and timing are proceeding according to plan,

The split was about strategy not goals, and we have the same goals. There's so much more common ground than there are differences.

The significant increase in our reach, traffic and revenues is the result of our strategy of combining high quality brand-name sites under the Lycos Network umbrella.

The team's strategy of upping the pace on the climb proved very important and then I could take over to finish off their work.

The superb quarterly results are indicative of the company's ability to deliver on its strategy of providing shareholders with superior returns through increasing gold production, strong earnings and cash flows, and the lowest cash costs in the industry,

The special prosecutor has done very little in terms of developing a strategy of how to address (impunity).

The thing that is critical is to develop a strategy and then make sure you stay on it,

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.

I've been around IBM, and I saw how IBM overdid it. Maybe we will, maybe we won't--but we have strategy control, we have technology control, we've got financial control.

So one strategy that we need to develop more is to develop income generation projects.

Teaming Chris with Ed Farmer will give our listeners great insight to the pitcher-hitter battle, in-depth understanding of game strategy and planning, and will bring every White Sox game to life for our listeners.

Ruffian's story is one of the most poignant of her time. This project will continue our strategy to make content available to consumers across multiple platforms and serve fans with superior programming.

Russia is one of the top-five beer markets in the world and fits our international growth strategy for brand development.

Premise ID will not cure any disease. It will help in being able to track potential victims of a disease outbreak, their threat to others and a possible strategy to control and neutralization of the disease threat in as short a time as possible.

Power Integrations' product range is highly complementary to our existing power semiconductor lines, and adding this franchise to our line-up is the latest step in our strategy to offer our customers a balanced portfolio of products from a range of world-class manufacturers.

Prudential is proud to be acknowledged by Working Mother magazine for being a great place for working moms and for our ongoing work/life strategy which benefits everyone. We are continually challenging ourselves to stay abreast of trends that will positively impact our employees both personally and professionally, and help them lead full and productive lives.

Ray is an experienced and talented leader, who will help us maximize the unprecedented sports sponsorship portfolio that we have built. He will be instrumental in developing and executing a well-integrated strategy that expands the ways in which we can drive solid business results from our sponsorship platforms.

Really, a lot of our share loss this year is a strategy to -- and I think it's the right thing to do -- lessen the daily rental fleet,

Primarily our strategy is organic growth, buttressed by acquisitions.

Our technology strategy is, in the near term, to improve our gasoline and diesel engines, and for the medium term, we're heavily focused on hybrids.

Our small folding cartons business is no longer core to our growth strategy and supporting portfolio of products and services. Proceeds from the sale will be used to reduce debt.

Our diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning .

Our execution excellence strategy has delivered an outstanding first quarter. We have managed our cost structure effectively, responding quickly to changes in traffic. Our operations team has done an excellent job delivering improved fluidity, with average train speed increasing 17 per cent, yard processing time decreasing a full 32 per cent, and car velocity up 15 per cent over the same period last year.

PeopleSoft is committed to the J.D. Edwards acquisition, ... We believe that the continued execution of our strategy will create significantly higher stockholder value.

On this Veterans Day, the president had the opportunity to honor our troops, both those who have served and those who are currently serving, by laying out a clear strategy for success in the war in Iraq. Instead, the president resorted to his old playbook of discredited rhetoric about the War on Terror and political attacks as his own political fortunes and credibility diminish,

Of course we are concerned that there might be a further change of plans. And we have established our strategy accordingly so that we can react to any potential new scenario.

Of most concern are some of the uncertainties that will inevitably arise as the result of the move to stage three. Against this background, the council has chosen a distinct monetary policy strategy and one that reflects the circumstances it faces at present.

No single measure or investment can help an organization support the growth and direction of its business, but organizations that develop ongoing strategic performance management programs that allow them to manage their performance and track their competitive environment will be first in managing business growth, strategy and operations effectively.

After six months, your usual outlets are not there. You will have to have some personal strategy how to relax, how to deal with stress.

After several years of talking about building a strategy to enter new businesses and accelerate license growth and earnings, BEA seems to be executing.

The national Republican strategy of stealing elections through lawyers, loopholes and lies will backfire,

The motive is simple. Their strategy is to focus on core pharmaceutical business. Clearly, the drug business is more profitable.

After 9/11, security cooperation with Australia became essential - it's part of the grand defense strategy of the US.

After much thought and discussion, it was decided that this new strategy would be the best way to maintain the LIFE brand.

The most important thing today was getting into the finals. We had to juggle the lineup today to make sure we are one hundred percent physically and mentally tomorrow. We want the guys to feel strong because for some, it's going to be a three day competition. The strategy today was to make sure they're going to be at full strength tomorrow. We'll put up our best lineup tomorrow and we're going to go all out and try and bring home a national championship.

The most important aspect of tomorrow's meeting is to get everybody on board and to understand the overall strategy of what they are doing.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Strategy shifts have to begin night by night, show by show. I don't think you can transform yourself in a season.

Strategy number one is that I always, or almost always, have at least two or three different things that I'm writing at any one time.

Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Strategy here is such a tough choice. When you attack on this course, you know you'll eventually pay a price. You can have a lot of good holes, though, before that price is paid.

Some schools are looking at literacy coaches. Other schools are teaching reading strategy to teachers. High schools don't teach the skill of reading.

So this is more of a longer term strategy for Wal-Mart.

Source Technologies is focused on making hardware and software purchasing as seamless as possible, regardless of a company's acquisition strategy or constraints. Performance Leasing provides the flexibility, choice and superior support our customers need.

Sound business strategy dictated we choose a historic, low rate increase to keep hard copy mail as the cost effective medium of choice in the 21st century.

One case does not a whole litigation strategy make.

Novell's Linux revenue increased 22 percent year over year to US$10.4 million. Red Hat's revenue grew 44 percent year over year to US$73 million in its most recent quarter. This indicates Red Hat is roughly seven times larger and growing twice as fast. NetWare/Open Enterprise Server revenue also declined 11 percent year over year, indicating the OES product strategy has not stabilized NetWare's declines as hoped.

Novell's Linux revenue increased 22 percent year over year to $10.4 million. Red Hat's revenue grew 44 percent year over year to $73 million in its most recent quarter. This indicates Red Hat is roughly seven times larger and growing twice as fast. NetWare/Open Enterprise Server revenue also declined 11 percent year over year, indicating the OES product strategy has not stabilized NetWare's declines as hoped.

Novell has had a new product or marketing strategy every year for the last 13 or 14 years.

During the fourth quarter, we resolved several non-performing assets, which slightly increased net charge-offs while lowering non-performing assets. Asset quality continues to compare favorably with peer banks and remains well within our tolerance levels. Strong credit quality, rooted with our guiding principle of securing loans with hard assets, is essential to our balanced growth strategy and overall success.

Delivering a fully-aligned, fee-based services organization that is designed for partner development, as well as end-user quality and satisfaction, is the next evolution in meeting channel expectations. Security technologies are complex, and there is a growing services market that partners can target to accelerate revenues and profits. McAfee is committed to driving more revenue opportunities to its partners, and a complementary services strategy is a key component in ensuring their growth and profitability.

Delay would give Saddam the clearest possible signal that his strategy is succeeding, ... It would tell him that the international community lacks the will to disarm him.

Debt Manager continues to set the ground rules for effectiveness and efficiency in the collections and recovery industry. The new functionality provides our financial services and debt servicing clients with streamlined information required to execute a collection strategy for the entire customer relationship, resulting in improved collections rates and a quick return on investment.

Debby is a dynamic leader with a proven track record of success not only in finance, but also in corporate strategy and operations, ... Her experience, ability and enthusiasm will make her an immediate and significant asset to our leadership team.

Companies look at the overall level of support they get from their banks, and in return they tend to steer more business to those banks they're closest to. We don't cover every client, but of the ones that we do, we strive to be one of their top relationship banks. That strategy often results in improved league-table performance.

Companies are realizing that their supply chain can be a competitive advantage. Automation is one strategy that can help a company improve its service quality and provide faster order fulfillment times.

Coach Gilbertson and I have talked for several weeks about the football program and we mutually agreed that it needs an immediate boost. Keith will finish this season as our head coach and has agreed to assist me beyond that time to develop a strategy for reinvestment by our university in its football program.

CNOOC handled it very badly, with poor strategy and poor decision-making. They had the deal almost in their back pocket but they threw it away, insisting Unocal pay Chevron the breakup fee. Either they got bad advice or they didn't take good advice.

Compared to other terrestrial animals, penguins have an excessive amount of side-to-side, waddling motion. If humans waddle too much they fall, but penguins somehow overcome this. They may have an elegant movement strategy for stability that we're unaware of.

Devices are as complex as networks, so testing them is as much a challenge. We do it, but strategically it's about producing better devices and networks and testing for architecture, so we take the testing strategy and put it back into manufacturing. We must look to vendors with integration in mind as they develop product sets. That's the strategy we're trying to invest in.

Development of a comprehensive digital content strategy, with the objective of accelerating the production, distribution and marketing of digital content and applications domestically and internationally should be a key priority for New Zealand. The Digital Strategy is a great foundation, but urgency around next steps is critical.

Developing online presence tools is a strategic move, with more businesses showing an interest in hosted share-points, for example. The company's strategy is to extend its business software offerings to Web platforms.

A one-size-fits-all strategy is not the wave of the future.

AOL was a company waiting to die, Suddenly, they had a strategy that wasn't just about putting them out of business. They washed the car and it got a lot more attractive.

AOL Time Warner -- you've just had a major shakeout. AOL was just not worth the value they paid, and this whole Internet portal media strategy has altered, but it hasn't gone away, ... But something new is happening. You have a new chief executive officer and the stock has been toxic waste in portfolios. Everybody's dumped it and you're not at a valuation level. It's very interesting.

Any marketing program that we would offer would be consistent with the marketing strategy we announced on Jan. 10.

An element of the general strategy employed by the organizers of the terrorist acts was to unleash a wide information and propaganda attack against Uzbekistan involving international human rights organizations.

An effective volume and value growth strategy is critical to the success of our system, ... While this strategy is working in some regions, in other key regions we still have much work to do. The benefit of our actions may not be immediate.

Apple is validating a product strategy Dell has had for more than 20 years.

Apple changed its product strategy more rapidly than we thought it would.

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.

aren't critical to the strategy of the infrastructure we are building throughout North America.

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

A new CEO, a new approach to doing business, and clear up this kind of unfinished business -- that's the strategy here, ... It's a steep price to pay, but markets hate uncertainty. It's a price worth paying for Boeing.

Any spate of news stories from now on about corruption in contracts, etc., will hurt - people will resist a major taxpayers' commitment if they think much of it will be wasted or lining the pockets of miscreants, ... That perception, unfortunately, has been reinforced by the delegation request, which editorials have called 'Louisiana looting.' The delegation needs to change its tone and strategy when it comes to getting aid. The other danger is that over time, as other disasters occur, aid becomes zero sum.

As far as the air campaign is concerned, there is no reason to suspend it. Conditions for that have not been met. We're going to keep it up so that (Milosevic) has a chance to rethink again the strategy of not following through on what he has agreed.

As he did last week, the president once again failed to provide a strategy for success or speak honestly to the American people about the failures in rebuilding Iraq and the challenges that lie ahead.

As a part of our growth strategy for overseas markets, we have added several additional languages, and increased the number and complexity of the projects. At each step, Iverson has demonstrated a strong commitment to the business, which has supported our efforts in the market.

As a measure of our success toward achieving our goal of becoming the industry standard, we've set objectives over the coming two years to grow to 1 million subscribers from 440,000 at the end of fiscal 2005, ... A key enabling strategy for these objectives is to establish BIOS relationships with the top tier computer OEMs. We believe that our embedded BIOS relationship with IBM was a key factor in driving Q4-2005 sales contract growth, and is an indication of the future potential of this strategy. We are continuing to advance this strategy, and subsequent to year end we announced Gateway as the second OEM to begin embedding Absolute's software into their BIOS.

As a legal strategy intelligent design is dead. It will be very difficult for any school district in the future to successfully survive a legal challenge. That doesn't mean intelligent design is dead as a very popular social movement. This is an idea that has got legs.

As a leading content creator we are committed to deepening our consumer's relationship with CBS brands and programming. This move underscores our strategy of offering best-in-class content on as many platforms as possible while seeking out new revenue streams.

As a leading content creator, we are committed to deepening our consumer's relationship with CBS brands and programming. This move underscores our strategy of offering best-in-class content on as many platforms as possible while seeking out new revenue streams.

The business strategy is if we can get a critical mass of very local content and a local audience, then we can target ads better than we ever could down to a town level.

The business environment remains challenging, ... But if you have a good strategy ... there is gold in all of this.

The Bush administration needs to step up to the plate. It's time to face the truth. It's time for a strategy to win in Iraq or a strategy to get out,

Australia's brazen move confirms that an alarming government-industry strategy is in play to overturn the UN moratorium on Terminator. The process and outcome dismiss the contributions of Indigenous and local communities.

Avanti's bar medium is a fantastic way to bring our brand values to life, gain peer group endorsement and drive consumers in store. This reinforces our traditional viral campaign strategy by creating a buzz in the bar environment and gaining more immediate talkability.

Autonomy is getting half of its sales in the U.S., has laid out a solid strategy with original equipment manufacturers, has a solid management team and market opportunity,

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Bank of China is a long-term customer of NCR. We are excited to see the bank move forward in its deposit-automation strategy by further migrating deposit transactions from the teller counter to the self-service channel.

As part of our strategy going forward we are aggressively looking at alliances and joint ventures and acquisitions of biotech companies.

As one of the world's most popular online gaming companies we have a very strong story to tell in respect of our position and our future strategy for growth.

As in 2004, we have achieved another record level of profit. Although markets clearly helped us last year, we believe the result also reflects the sustainable earnings power of UBS, based on our client-centric strategy of business focus and growth.

At Loudon, things can go one way or the other. It's very difficult to pass, and track position means a lot. Pit strategy means a lot too. We're going to concentrate on being as consistent as possible throughout the race. At a track like this, you want to work to make sure you come out with the best finish possible, which will help the team at least maintain their current position in the point standings and possibly pick up some more points as well.

That's what makes our sport so unique. You can sit there and watch it on TV, and you get more of the perspective of the pit strategy and the way the guys are passing each other out on the track. Then when you come to the race, you lose a little bit of that, but you can still see live what's going on, and you can get a scanner and hear the teams and what transmissions go back and forth. And you have the smell, you've got the sight, the feel. When cars come by at 200 miles an hour, it blows you away.

That's him. Jason has his own strategy for pacing himself and he does it well.

Alicia played outstanding singles today. Her strategy combined with her execution of points played a major role in her success against both Hettinger and Bloomberg. To play for an ESD championship in flight one is quite an accomplishment.

Your hands are the most important means from which germs travel from one person to another. So it would make sense that washing your hands would be an effective strategy for protecting yourself.