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Our third-quarter financial results demonstrate the ongoing strength of our business, ... Starbucks operations are functioning at a more sophisticated level than ever before. Our consistently strong performance positions us well to achieve our aggressive fiscal 2005 goals -- including an acceleration of store growth as we pursue the Company's expanding global opportunity. Orin Smith
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Our seniors have made it to this game every year, if not farther. This has been a successful group and I'm certainly disappointed for them that we didn't win, because we played so hard, but I could never be disappointed in this group. They've achieved so much this year and have done so much as a group, they'll always be special.
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Our families and staff share a common bond to protect and nurture these vulnerable children. The prospect of this type of crime in our midst is contrary to everything we believe in and strive to achieve every day.
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People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.
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During the last 13 days, we were able to achieve a lot of consensus on some issues, I thought we had made a lot of progress.
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During our tough negotiations with the federal government, Premier Hamm was a rock upon which we all relied, ... He had fought for many years to achieve a better resource agreement with Ottawa and his perspective and counsel were critical to our collective success.
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Deferring capital gains tax would enable investors to achieve higher returns and better portfolio diversification and also enable companies to raise capital more cost-effectively.
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Demand is very strong. To some extent the demand was unmet because of our service problems. We're confident that with improved service, we can achieve rate increases on a market by market basis. Paul Goodwin
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Demand for these rebates clearly shows the public is interested in vehicles that achieve higher fuel efficiency standards and employ alternative fuel technologies.
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I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.
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Sarah's probably our most confident player. She doesn't get rattled in any situation. She's the kind of player who thrives in a pressure situation. She's been great for us in that leadership role.
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It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.
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This is a solid deal for us at Merrill Lynch , and we are confident about the long-term benefits. We will definitely consider other acquisitions like this when they become available.
confident
You've just got to be confident or you wouldn't be here at this level. Ken Schrader
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We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there. Lindy Ruff
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We're a confident group of guys. We definitely think that we can go all the way. Daniel Gibson
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Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here. Bill Simmons
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We wanted to see how confident we are and how we measure up in the state playoffs. We're quite tested, and I think we're ready.
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As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them. Robert Jones
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As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producers and palm oil is the world's most traded vegetable oil.
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People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.
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Demand is snapping right back. Even with the high prices, there hasn't been that big an impact on demand.
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Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.
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The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense Benjamin Franklin
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Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.
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Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.
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Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.
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The theaters were the hardest hit, but to some extent all the stores got water intrusion.
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The extent of the rate hike this time is fairly small. What is more important is whether or not more lies ahead. And even if there are further rate hikes, it is investment that will first be impacted, followed by consumption.
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They do work to an extent in smoothing things out, but you have what you have.
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When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.
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I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally. Dennis Muren
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I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth. Eve Ensler
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In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now. Raymond Carver
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply. Patrick Kavanagh
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We've known that we've had a problem with unbundling. We just didn't know the extent of that problem.
improved patriot
This is not a new and improved Patriot Act. John Conyers
improved life quality
We have improved the quality of life for so many people.
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Currituck is much improved from when we saw a little over a month ago. Tim Brown
improved port security since
We have drastically improved port and cargo security since 9/11.
improved plays
With Jacques, you know they'll be well-coached. As long as Roberto plays well, they should be a significantly improved team. Gary Green
improved later played
We improved as the scrimmage went on. In the later part, we played a lot better.
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We'll start to see improved margins and some very nice flow-through in the third quarter.
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The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.
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You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time. Lisa Randall
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These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.
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Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,
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We not talking about any major increases here.
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The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.
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We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.
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We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.
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(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.
market people
The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.
market oil remained
The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.
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These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?
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The stock market is very jittery because of the hurricane. Any positive news in regards to the storm will push the market up. O. J. Simpson
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The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.
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You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.
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What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.
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Marketing is the devil. Billy Bob Thornton
rates staying
With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.
rate
At this rate, we'll never get to the future. Chuck Palahniuk
rates
Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.
rates
Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.
rates reached
In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions. John Seabrook
rates
Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility. Leon Black
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Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target. Ali Babacan
rate stays taxes
The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time. John Parsons
rate
We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.
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The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.
services social
This is going to be a social services disaster.
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We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.
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How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong? Ron Kaufman
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Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.
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Preparation clears a pathway for success.
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A scattered effort is a poor effort.
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Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company. Tony Hsieh
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The customer is the final inspector. Steve Jobs