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Those games were going to give us visibility and some extra money, for starters. From the get-go, we knew that in order to gain credibility and respectability and have the chance to shock the world, we were going to have to play with the big boys.

We remain cautious until we see significant evidence of accelerating sales, operational and commercial execution, and improved long-term visibility on sales and earnings growth.

We're down to a visibility of an eighth of a mile here on the mesa.

The raw material cost in the quarter is surprising given that the company generally has six-month visibility on raw materials based on forward purchases.

We are not able to predict what the outcome will be or when it will come, ... have progressed significantly enough to give the company some visibility into the (potential) costs.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

We're looking at a company that's going to grow, I think, at about 14 percent over the next several years with, I might add, a lot of predictability and I think a lot of visibility and a high level of confidence, ... So with Merck at 31 times earnings now and down about 20 percent from its high, I think we're getting into an opportunity where it's a lot better than trying to buy a cyclical that's selling at 27 times earnings and where the visibility is a lot more questionable.

We build people up who have positions of power or visibility and venerate them and then have to show they have feet of clay.

We ought to be using the confluence, celebrating it and using it for its historical preservation value, for its tourism value, and for raising the visibility of the area.

We would look at consumer non-durables, where there is consistency of earnings, visibility of earnings, names like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Safeway, are consumer non-durable names we've been adding to here in this decline,

We believe our move to the NYSE could help increase liquidity and reduce trading volatility of Nordstrom stock. Association with the world's largest exchange could also provide Nordstrom improved visibility both on Wall Street and in international markets, which could widen our potential investor base.

Trying to assess the earnings impact of a deal is tough since having no visibility makes it difficult to forecast. The investor base has no idea what the 2007, 2008 and 2009 original movies will be like.

There are all sorts of questions - (from) what they're spending their money on, to what they're doing to reaccelerate sales growth, to what they're doing to try to optimize their capital investment. There's little visibility at the present time as to when these levels of spending are going to generate higher levels of return on investment.

With the addition of new network and client performance details, we're giving administrators complete, end-to-end visibility of application performance. They can not only track performance at the application and server level but also, with the addition of round trip metrics, they can visualize performance right down to the individual client.

We are excited that our visibility solution can address an important delivery management requirement for Canon Europe. This is a great example of how Descartes' services-based business model allows companies such as Canon Europe to pilot and see the business value of our solutions before having to make significant financial commitments to use our technology.

Unearned revenue is really important because it gives visibility into future revenue. In our view, concerns about it have created the weakness in Microsoft's stock for the past couple of years,

We're thrilled to have such a wonderful lineup. This is a great opportunity for us to give visibility to our designation as a leadership university.

While visibility remains limited due to challenging conditions across the telecommunications industry, we remain enthusiastic about the capabilities of our products and the compelling value they deliver.

You can't buy the visibility and credibility that Oprah's name represents. It's going to be an enormous source of support for this show.

Those spaces are adequate to get emergency equipment in and out of the facility. There is good visibility ... in the parking area. Overall, from a traffic safety point of view, parking safety point of view, emergency trucking point of view, I see no problem whatsoever. It meets the criteria for good design for a parking area, and consequently in total this is a very desirable use.

You have a number of churches and charities involved with a number of road trips for Mr. Blackwell, all of which seem to be aimed at gaining him visibility for his political campaign.

This new partnership has great benefits, particularly to our conference and school partners and will result in more revenue, reach and visibility to the Atlantic 10 and their membership.

We do not see a significant positive catalyst in the near term, so we think the shares are likely to mark time until better visibility emerges into fiscal 2006 results.

Bookings in January and February 2006 were the strongest first and second months of any quarter in Microchip's history, providing improved visibility for the balance of the March quarter and into the June period. We are experiencing broad-based strength by end markets, geographies, sales channels and product lines.

At the very least, I have to have very good visibility into my contract manufacturer in China as to any quality hiccups that might affect me. I need to get early warning of those, and potentially I may have to source locally to remain responsive to fluctuations in demand.

Current visibility suggest overall market volume for 2002 will reach our earlier eexpectations of 400 million units sold.

Enterprises have been completely blind to their users' SSL traffic. Companies would like to have the same level of visibility and control of SSL traffic as they do with non-encrypted traffic. With SSL usage rising rapidly and security threats proliferating, products like Blue Coat's SSL proxy may fill a significant enterprise need.

Enterprises have been completely blind to their users' SSL traffic, and until now, have been unable to do anything about it. Our SSL proxy solution now enables enterprises to gain visibility and control over what has previously been invisible to them and protect against serious business risks.

During the past 18 months and moving forward, we've been embarking on a mission to increase visibility for our destination. From recreational activities, weddings and conference facilities to our lodging, entertainment and events, we continue to showcase the region and all of its wonders.

The results of this eight state regional program over just three weeks prove conclusively that high visibility enforcement is the most effective tool we have to increase seat belt use and save lives. We are encouraging every state to use the federal funds it receives for seat belt programs to implement the 'Click It or Ticket' model.

There's a fair amount of visibility that the refineries that haven't come back on yet will be down for a while. That makes the market nervous.

They are admitting they have very cloudy visibility on the very critical holiday season. What might be more significant to investors is that even though they had an admittedly superb second quarter, where are we going from here?

The wind is the question. It wouldn't take much to cause visibility problems.

The visibility was good and the light was good. There were no weather issues going on when the accident occurred.

The visibility is OK, but on the jump it was so windy and that's why I fell. It was a lot of wind. It pushed me back and lifted up my skis. I had no control over what was happening. It was really dangerous. It's the right decision to cancel the race.

The visibility and awareness of these issues goes much deeper into the general public than it did even five or six years ago.

The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.

The SAP system has afforded us a lot of visibility and access to information that we didn't have before. We were on at least three different materials resource planning (MRP) systems. Access to information and the ability to analyze the information was limited, at best.

The second quarter results reflected the initial benefit of the cost-savings measures introduced in January, 2006. With a strong backlog in our electronic counter measures business and a lower operating cost structure, we now have enough visibility to project an even stronger third quarter as well as a net profit for the fiscal year overall.

The smoke has drifted farther south. In some areas, the visibility is about 10 feet. As soon as the visibility improves we will reopen those roadways.

The slowdown has clearly become global in scope, and visibility is still very limited.

The tide has just turned. LGBT elders are getting to an age when they want their housing needs addressed. It's time to increase our visibility and stand up for LGBT seniors.

The success of the first two releases confirms that SAW is a franchise that will continue to have legs for a very long time. The movies combine action, suspense and gore while taking us into the mind of one of the most memorable madmen in horror movie history. While the success at the box office gave SAW II momentum for its home video release, we also ensured that it stood out at retail with unique packaging and an extensive marketing and promotional campaign. With the Valentine's Day opening, we were able to pull out all the stops on a unique overall marketing program that gave the release great visibility leading up to street date.

So often we are invisible to people, so we're trying to raise our visibility and raise awareness,

Presenting at the Vegas Venture Forum resulted in an invitation to present at the top private equity conference in my industry. This dramatically increased our visibility and helped us to raise the funds we were seeking.

Schering will be coming out with a second generation (Claritin) drug in the next few months, so it depends how many people they convert (to the new drug), ... They could be in Merck's shoes a few quarters from now, but I don't think they have the visibility to say.

Publicly traded corporations and others with high visibility are reluctant to have their name in a column of contributors to Prop. 75.

Progress has created an impressive portfolio of sophisticated and robust SOA technologies. Our proven product line delivers the missing ingredient: the management and visibility to ensure that every SOA project, no matter what technologies are used, is a successful one. We're excited to join forces and create the dominant SOA infrastructure solution in today's rapidly expanding SOA market.

Probably in the short term we're a little ahead of ourselves. We don't have any earnings visibility and we won't until the fourth quarter.

Our sense is that management believes it is past the bottom on the enterprise side of the business, yet the magnitude and timing of the recovery is still in question, ... In other words, visibility still remains mediocre.

Our customers want to understand where they have exposure on recalled product, alert their trading partners, and resolve potentially brand-damaging events before they escalate. We are excited to introduce a solution that provides all of the supply chain constituents real-time visibility into the status of a recall and allows them to work together to manage these potentially catastrophic events.

People should really just kind of stay in and wait out the storm, if at all possible. The roads will be snow-covered and treacherous. Visibility could be down to a quarter-mile for three hours or more during the heaviest snow late Saturday night and in the early morning hours Sunday.

People are talking about Wyoming. We've had more visibility from this movie than we've had in a long time from a movie.

Operations Research is gaining more visibility as a competitive business advantage and the Franz Edelman Award does a great job of highlighting outstanding O.R. applications. O.R. transforms business decision-making and this is being increasingly recognized by companies around the world.

The National Human Capital Summit will feature some of the most provocative and insightful thought leaders in the industry, and will boast an audience of more than 1,000 senior-level human capital practitioners. With this sponsorship, we'll gain additional visibility at the event and augment the exposure provided by our executive presenters.

The most important thing going on in this country right now is helping victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Cowboys hope the visibility and exposure of the broadcast assists in that effort.

A couple of things made a marked difference for Nasdaq this year. They completed a secondary offering early in the year, which gave visibility to their cost-cutting and market-share gains. The strong performance of exchange stocks later in the year also helped lift Nasdaq. Finally, there's revenue growth, and the potential to take listed share next year as the New York Stock Exchange goes automated.

Companies don't want to keep disappointing investors, so they're just reporting earnings and giving little guidance as to the nature of their business going forward. Companies used to give indications for a year out. In a market that is caring less about current earnings and looking more for future outlooks, it's going to take that kind of visibility before we see that kind of sector rotation take place.

Companies often implement collaborative planning and forecasting with upstream vendors and manufacturing partners, but they rarely translate these demand and production forecasts into transportation capacity requirements and share them with carriers. But some shippers are now providing forward visibility to carriers and securing capacity in advance. These shippers are receiving priority in capacity allocation over shippers that do not if only because carriers appreciate the effort these shippers are making to keep them informed.

The bottom line is, people can expect a very high visibility from the police department for the entire weekend.

The business downturn has been rapid, steep and unprecedented, and the continuing lack of visibility from our customers suggests to us that a cautious outlook continues to be warranted for the short term.

Athletics gives us visibility and creates part of the excitement of the campus and makes Nebraska what Nebraska is, ... That, I'm sure, helps enrollment over the long term. But I don't think whether we win or lose a game directly (affects) whether enrollment goes up or down.

That number included people, as we said, that had uneven training and uneven equipment. We improved our analysis, and we've gotten much better visibility into the situation,

You wouldn't believe the instant visibility that we got. It's one of those things you don't want to go through.

You've got ying and yang going on here. You've got a decent company-specific story and confidence with the strategy, but you also have an incremental worsening situation on the housing front and no visibility into any good news.

You saw a little better earnings than expected, a more optimistic outlook for full-year earnings, and people beginning to see margin expansion for the company after some declines over the last 18 months. That visibility is the biggest reason you're seeing the stock move up.

This more detailed analysis shows that direct personal interventions and a high visibility of the actual candidates themselves in their wards are likely to be more powerful as a driver to persuade people to vote than less personal communications such as those from party communication vehicles.

This means that Vanilla Coke has been doing badly and it is not working and not having the visibility that there is a decent chance that it will work longer term.

There is no visibility ? management teams are coming out and saying we have no visibility but we think the second quarter is the bottom but they have no idea.

This is the start of something very, very big. Having a consistent weekly time slot will increase the visibility and significance of college soccer nation-wide. We look forward toward the future expansion of this package with the goal of highlighting even more programs and players.

They're getting their message across before bargaining begins in earnest. Showing a lot of visibility and political clout means bargaining will be influenced by not just what happens at the table but what happens in the community.

It was blindingly heavy snow, and visibility was only a quarter mile in some places,

It's a wild card. If it works, great, but I don't think there's a tremendous amount of visibility right now. It's been a long time in the making at Merck and there have been disappointments along the way. The HIV virus is crafty, and there are many different strains.

It's not that the earnings we've seen so far have been bad, ... it's that you have companies like Pfizer saying they've lost visibility for 2006 and 2007 and maybe beyond that.

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.

For 2001, we are a bit more cautious, as visibility will likely not be as strong and the processor battlefield shifts towards next generation products, which could change the game again.

For a library you need visibility and accessibility -- someplace that's easy to get into.

The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

It's more than fairly priced given the lack of visibility and a more constrained hospital (spending) environment.

It's been a strong source of inspiration for the divers. We usually dive in zero visibility and very bad conditions. We know if the family who suffered that loss is able to rise above that to help us help people better, it gives us a better way to focus on what we need to do to help more people.

It's quite isolated. We really need visibility and ease of access for the kids.

Creating a network specifically for the LGBT community is something we've wanted to do for a long, long time, and it's an idea we feel is overdue. Despite our nation's progress on civil rights and the growing visibility of gay people in business, society and even in television programming -- what has been missing is a full-time home for this important and influential audience on television. We have big plans and hopes for LOGO and I'm thrilled to finally announce its arrival.

Doing things like this certainly increases Disney World's visibility in the minds of travelers. This will certainly make people think more of a Disney World vacation.

Even Wal-Mart, with their superior systems, their ability to analyze information, being able to predict sales down to the SKU and generate customer profiles, doesn't have good visibility of what's going on in 2001, which makes us concerned about the guys who don't have that ability,

That leads you to believe that investors think we are getting close to the bottom, ... What's being scrutinized now, as opposed to before, is the quality of management teams, and, in e-commerce plays, visibility of revenues.

Ebony and Jet increased the visibility of blacks and said that there is a diversity of experience in the black community. Not everyone is poor, and there are celebrities.

The batsmen were the mood to chase even a big total like 380 but poor visibility restricted them to do so.

The best news is cresting right now, ... so it very well may be that we had a fabulous run in the market from March 2003 to January 2004, we've sort of marked time since then, and we'll roll over for the rest of the year until we get better visibility on 2005.

The banking industry got pinched with short-term rates in 2005. But now that it appears the (Federal Reserve's) rate tightening is coming to an end, net interest margins should stay stable as banks get more visibility on how to price loans.

The airline business in terms of volume is tiny. It's more important in terms of presence, visibility and a little bit of prestige.

That greater visibility is what leads to less defamation, and that's the bottom line for us.

System administrators will get visibility into which servers are linked to which network devices. Currently when a switch goes down it's not easy to see which servers are impacted. Also, adding a new web server to a load balancer currently requires the load balancer to be updated.

Sun is a turnaround story and a turnaround story requires confidence in the management. Our concern is not that there is something sinister, just that we have less visibility with the new team and what their goals and objectives will be.

It's important for us to have a major presence and visibility in downtown Dallas. By consolidating our downtown locations, we will bring together 1,600 employees to serve our customers more efficiently and conveniently from one central location.

It's bringing more and more visibility to the category. This is a trillion dollar market. We don't think this is anything someone can monopolize.

It was periods of blizzard-like conditions, with visibility less than a quarter mile and sustained winds over 30 mph.

They've got some very nice venture partners, very solid high visibility investors.

After this quarter's shortfall on already reduced guidance, we are cautious about the visibility for the December forecast.

Service is now an agenda item. There's a lot of money invested in it. The problem is, companies lack the processes and systems that enable them to manage their service operations and to have visibility and control over whether they make a service call or not. That is a void we are filling.