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Michigan Sentiment may be the key to activity today. Otherwise it may be a case for waiting for some confessional news next week and the next quarter's results from Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers often a good barometer of economic and business activity.

Whoever that wise man or woman was who said 'location, location, location' knew what they were talking about, because this side of the street doesn't get the activity that the other side does.

We haven't seen much activity on the Internet from the traditional ad agencies. They have had their head stuck in the sand,

We just are not really able, at our current staffing and current (oil) activity levels, to keep up with reclaiming the land and getting it back into productive use.

Ann Bancroft

You know, if I look at this activity as my whole career, this is my peak moment. I've been building for this my whole career.

You can have just a lot and the building doesn't exist anymore, but it's an attraction for criminal activity and trash and the city can't declare it blighted anymore.

Robert Evans

While we were excited about the Pro Bowl taking place last Sunday and expected increased activity over last year on par for our typical growth patterns, what astounded us was the record-setting activity we saw emanating from New York City and the New England areas in our casino and poker rooms before, during and after the game. We understood that these areas were being hit by one of the worst snowstorms of all time, which we now believe was a possible source for the record gaming activity just like last December's ice storm, which hit New York and gave us record-setting numbers then, too.

Whilst partly reflecting the high number of working days in the month, the approvals numbers show that mortgage activity is running at a higher level than at this time last year, although the market is still somewhat short of the heady times of 2004.

Whilst activity levels may have improved over the autumn of 2005 on the back of more realistic pricing, it does not automatically follow that prices will start to rise.

I strongly encourage the parents to report any kind of activity they see. I would especially ask them to take a look at what your children are doing on the Internet.

Lindsey Graham

I think it would be unfair for him to take a fall if this is just a limited activity of a few people.

It is critical that this activity be treated for what it is -- dealing in stolen property and profiting from it. And that must come with serious consequences.

M&A activity is likely to prove supportive for sterling and with recent economic data suggesting there is no risk of lower rates any time soon, I think the backdrop remains fairly constructive.

M&A activity has been the pattern for some time. Whilst we still have a decent macro background combined with low financing costs there's probably more to come. It's probably supportive of a relatively cheap market.

M&A activity has been a key influence on sterling over the recent weeks and months ... and if that's going to be a continuing theme, then that will at least provide a floor for sterling.

M&A activity and corporate earnings underpin the equity market. Investors now are coming around to the correct perception that first-quarter numbers are going to be very good.

Management will not comment on the status of the DOJ settlement discussions, but it appears to us that things may be heating up, ... There appears to be a flurry of activity on the settlement front, but no way of gauging probabilities.

Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before auto manufacturers start ramping up production to replenish sales-depleted inventories.

Manufacturing activity in the Chicago region ended the year with good momentum.

(Meijer) knew, or should have known, that criminal activity in its ... store and surrounding parking lot was a frequent occurrence.

We found also that there was a correlation between the amount of space that the child had to move around in a child care center and their body composition and their activity levels.

We have not seen this level of aircraft carrier activity for a couple years. That number of aircraft carriers in the Pacific under way, in close proximity to each other, (hasn't happened) in 10 years.

The present era has no comparable referent in the past history of capitalism. We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodom and Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.

Those cities are the hub of activity for the Gen X market. Eventually the Web site will expand and we want people to visit places outside of those metro areas.

Henry Paulson

Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.

We are indeed aware of criminal organizations that wear military-style uniforms, use military-style equipment and weapons and employ military-style vehicles and tactics while conducting illegal activity in border areas.

We know that a 5 to 10 percent weight loss has significant effects on blood glucose and on blood pressure and triglycerides. If you put them all together -- healthy weight, healthy eating, physical activity -- you will find on every level that you will see a reduction in diabetes and heart disease,

Julia Cameron

My mother set us to an activity and let us be.

Donald Young

It feels good to be playing a junior tournament again. It has been quite a while. I love the Easter Bowl, with all the age groups here, and both boys and girls, the atmosphere and activity here, as well as the tough matches, there's nothing like it.

I think people are very worried that this is going to stretch out, particularly if it's close. No one knows who is going to win, or when they will win, and there's still talk of terror activity around the election.

James Harrington

I think part of this clearly is to chill free-speech activity because it also resonates throughout the entire Hispanic community.

It doesn't give them the critical mass they need in Japan or any other Asian market. They want to have 25 percent of the Asian market. It's very strongly implied there will be more m&a activity in the market.

It does not surprise me that the new secretary would take a look at that situation. What does surprise me is that there would be further sanctions after the State Attorney's Office in Tallahassee said they were not convinced that criminal activity had occurred, but I am not privy to everything the new secretary knows.