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We have secured the rigs necessary to complete our program, a program that focuses on more development activity and less risk. The current forecasted activity level calls for 391 wells, with increased activity in each region including expanded drilling on each of the acquisition plays purchased in 2005.

Bruce Karatz

There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity from buying to selling, resulting in less demand and increased supply in certain markets. Once these factors work their way through current housing supplies, however, we expect the market to move to a new equilibrium which will provide a platform for continuing and sustainable growth by KB Home.

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

Alex Johnson

We often see an increase in criminal and fraudulent activity of all kinds during the holiday season. People usually feel more generous during the holidays, and they're in the spending mode. Criminals take advantage of this.

We obviously track the mortgage activity and understand that overall share, but we don't focus on how many homes are being purchased by investors without a mortgage. That could be a more interesting part of the housing picture.

We obviously can?t prove or disprove, but it?s unlikely. That level of activity would not go unnoticed.

We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process.

While some of our competition is narrowing its focus to just e-mail capabilities, IBM continues to expand and evolve Lotus Notes and Domino to deliver the extended business value of a true collaborative platform. Over the last 20 years, IBM Lotus has defined this industry and has been at the forefront of collaborative innovation. With a broad new set of programs, platform support and Business Partner activity to support the Lotus Notes and Domino platform, we're continuing to meet the growing needs of our customers and are well positioned to maintain our leadership role into the future.

While our clients' trading activity had increased in early September ? daily average revenue trades were 136,000 for the first five trading days of the month ? last week's terrorist attacks and their aftermath have added fresh uncertainty to the market environment,

We've been seeing very strong activity in international markets, which should continue, driven by global economic growth.

We've been seeing improvement in the non-manufacturing side since late last year. We're seeing more activity in the travel sector and others that were hit really hard last year after the terror attacks.

Scott Anderson

We've been relying on the housing activity for our economic growth.

There just seems to be a new deal every day. M&A activity is driving the market.

There is unprecedented flow of funds ... so what does one do than keep buying. There's more activity in the infrastructure related sectors than in the rest.

Dan Glickman

There's a new guideline added to encourage physical activity that's very critically important, ... There is a new guideline added to encourage safe food handling by consumers. That's very nontraditional, but we thought it was very important.

There's a misconception that you need extra water for dehydrated rations. You need a given amount of water per day depending on activity and temperature. Whether some of that comes in the food or is consumed separately, the water requirement is the same.

As smart and as good as we are on many things, we've been so poorly organized on this effort. It's tragic. It's astonishing how little activity is happening in there for animals.

As we crack down on gang activity, we have to often deal with the hiding places, houses where illegal activity is occurring.

As we increased the riskiness of a target, the neurons' activity would go up in the same way the monkey's frequency of choosing that target would go up. It was amazing the degree to which the activity of these neurons paralleled the behavior of the monkeys. They looked like they were signaling, in fact, the monkeys' subjective valuation of that target.

As we implement an even more personalized experience on the Web site, we would also expect to utilize customers' product preferences to tailor their experience on and offline. That info can come from both their actual activity and preferences demonstrated on the casino floor -- as well as from data learned from Play for Fun.

Asset quality has been real strong. Residential real estate activity has been brisk, especially in the Bozeman and Billings markets.

As privately held companies continue to escalate their activity in areas that were once considered the domain of large publicly owned companies, they have increased their exposure to potentially costly liability-related lawsuits, as well as to crime events such as workplace fraud and extortion. In an area such as directors and officers liability, the stakes can be especially high and financially devastating.

As you apply pressure in the urban areas through a physical barrier and an infrastructure that not only is impressive, it's intimidating, then it becomes an obstacle. You can divert that activity and channel into areas where you have a tactical advantage.

Steven Pinker

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

A backdrop of monetary tightening, high commodity prices, robust productivity growth and buoyant activity will continue to offer support to the peso.

Brian Quinn

A combination of growth in the areas of high market activity and consolidation of our position in the remaining markets present exciting prospects for the group.

A continued focus on margins and little change in activity in database demand will likely keep many investors on the sidelines until some more convincing catalysts are in evidence.

John Walsh

It's just another example of how much drug activity is here and everywhere in the country,

Richard Myers

It's just a little more activity in the last couple of days than we have seen in the last couple of years. But we don't think it means anything more than what we've been seeing

It's just a great family, community activity for everybody to participate in, and it all is for a good cause.

It's just so much easier not to sleep now. There are things to do all the time -- clubs open, you could e-mail, or bank all night long. There's more competing activity chipping away at sleep.

The new Forerunners are ideal for any outdoor activity -- from a leisurely stroll to a competitive marathon. No matter what your activity or fitness level, the Forerunner gives users immediate feedback on the information they're most interested in such as calories burned, distance traveled, pace, or heart rate. The Forerunner also has navigation features so you can always make it back to your starting point.

David Lereah

The nearby regions picked up a great deal of activity very quickly.