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Alan Davis

Acquisition has certainly been an ongoing strategy, and certainly this is an opportunity to accelerate that.

John Ray

These settlements represent the latest in a series of achievements aimed at resolving significant claims in Enron's bankruptcy proceedings. We are pleased that these settlements enable us to collect additional value for the creditors, and, at the same time, resolve claims against the estate so that we can accelerate distributions to all creditors.

The Unix server business is more of a wild card. They're either going to have to gain some market share or accelerate their efforts on the services and software side. But the markets they're going after certainly support that kind of growth.

The external disk storage systems market growth continued to accelerate through the year. Data growth was one driver, but the availability of affordable systems that support multiple tiers of storage to address data protection, business continuity requirements, and online, active archives also contributed.

Brian and David are both extremely talented individuals with a keen sense for emerging market opportunities, and broad-based experience in capitalizing on them. We look forward to tapping into their industry expertise as we further accelerate the development of market-leading products and execute on our go-to-market strategy.

As Starbucks continues to accelerate its international expansion, we must perpetually build stronger infrastructures that will allow us to meet the Company's strategic growth objectives. Cliff's and Julio's past successes, extensive experience, knowledge of the business and Starbucks culture, as well as Phil's credentials in the restaurant and retail industries, are strong indicators that these leaders will provide the foundation we need in the region to reach our long-term goal while continuing to deliver our legendary service and the Starbucks Experience to our customers.

Consumers' upbeat mood about current business and labor conditions underscores the economy's continuing recovery, but the latest retreat in expectations suggest that the pace of economic growth will not accelerate in the months ahead,

We are going to be pursuing legal remedies in every form we can to accelerate the appellate process.

We expect this trend to continue and to accelerate in 2006 and 2007.

We expect the company to put its $14.5 billion of net cash to work in pursuing acquisitions to accelerate growth. That said, we would not be surprised to see the shares trade sideways until a significant acquisition is announced.

We expect Microsoft's commitment will accelerate deployment of many services that carriers see as important for the next generation of wireless communications. Microsoft's digital media expertise, applied to wireless in a way that focuses on the needs of the carriers, is a very positive step for our industry and consumers alike.

The results of this study, ... indicate that achieving fusion in the cervical spine significantly improves pain scores. Thus, efforts to accelerate the fusion process, such as PEMF, have a demonstrable impact on patient care.

The converged device market is growing at more than 60 percent a year. This realignment positions the handheld team to more clearly focus on navigating this fast-paced market while PSG continues to accelerate its trend of profitable growth.

Martin Jacques

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline.

Robert Hormats

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

On the contrary, house price inflation continues to accelerate as some areas that have experienced relatively slow appreciation are picking up steam, ... There is no evidence here of prices topping out.

CBFA will give us the necessary critical mass to broaden and deepen our penetration of the retail supermarket, club store and foodservice channels, ... The completion of the transaction will enable us to accelerate the realignment of our existing production facilities. Not only will this transaction not result in layoffs and plant closings, we expect to increase our production capacity and manpower.

Business Process Networks take the concept of software-as-a-service to a new level. By focusing on transaction-intensive processes, extending common business processes across multiple companies and leveraging shared connections, we are able to accelerate the adoption cycles and significantly lower operating costs.

Only a proxy infrastructure has the power to simultaneously control, protect and accelerate Web communications and applications. We're pleased the State of Alabama chose Blue Coat to help make its Web environment and Internet use safe, productive and with the highest quality and responsiveness. Located in the network between users and the Internet, Blue Coat proxy appliances are an ideal platform for state, local or federal government organizations implementing comprehensive security and control for all types of Web communications.

I don't think you're going to hear anything about Phil's next step in the NBA, if there is a next step in the NBA, until a new champion is crowned. I don't think Phil is going to accelerate the pace of any discussions. He has obligations that are non-NBA related. As it turns out, his calendar of engagements ... frees itself right around the time the NBA playoffs conclude. That's the time when we could really jump into it if there are serious offers.

I expect there will be improvements in the trade balance and business investment and in inventories so that the overall pace of activity will accelerate in the third quarter,

Some new products are focusing on battling tiredness, a key trait that can actually accelerate the skin aging process. Products such as L'Oreal Europe's Infallible foundation are claiming to resist against the signs of tiredness, which can be felt at any age. It presents more preventive versus reactive options for consumers.

If inflation doesn't accelerate much from here, and the Fed just raises rates a little more, we might see something like the end of the 1990s again. But if the Fed has to really ramp up to fight inflation, it's going to be a much worse environment than investors realize.

CFC 's collaborative business payment solution, Business Payment Connection, is being offered by community banks to small and mid-tier businesses to accelerate cash flow to fuel their growth, ... All of my instincts tell me it is time for a B2B payments breakthrough, and I see this opportunity to use my professional and personal experiences to assist CFC in bringing this to bear.

By combining our products, we can offer a faster Web browsing experience for the end user, free up network capacity to support more users and applications, and lower the operators' cost of information delivery. We believe that this joint solution will further accelerate the ongoing rapid adoption of full Web browsers.

... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

By providing tighter integration with BizTalk Server 2006, SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio(R) 2005, Commerce Server 2006 enables customers to reduce costs and accelerate revenue growth through automated delivery of online services and products. Commerce Server 2006 enables new and existing customers to use the latest Microsoft technologies and thereby enjoy all the benefits of the latest generation of the Microsoft application platform.

I think they'd get the most value out of a large media company or a big retailer on the e-commerce front. But there are a lot of different things that can accelerate growth.

I think they definitely would like to sell Eckerd at some point. I don't see where a spin-off does much for them. What they need is cash to accelerate the turnaround in its core business.

I think they definitely would like to sell Eckerd at some point, ... I don't see where a spin-off does much for them. What they need is cash to accelerate the turnaround in its core business.

Japanese pension funds and institutions will likely accelerate their buying from October when the second half of this business year starts. We are seeing one of the best buying chances.

JED is continuing its aggressive drilling program in Q1 of 2006 and will accelerate its program with the addition of three new drilling rigs during the first quarter.

that business has been in and is in a transition phase this year, and a real positive sign was that this quarter. Profits improved in Europe by 24 percent over the first quarter. That's the first step in the transition. We've got a management team that is coming together and we believe that by the fourth quarter, we'll be in very good shape to accelerate growth; and so right now we're very hopeful and positive and the transformation is on track.