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Activity levels are probably higher than I've seen in my 25 years at Goldman Sachs. Client activity is very, very high. CEO confidence is quite high. You see lots of merger activity going on.

Activity is very light ahead of Greenspan's testimony tomorrow. We really shouldn't see much movement . . . there is no prominent economic data out today.

Activity is very light ahead of Greenspan's testimony tomorrow, ... We really shouldn't see much movement . . . there is no prominent economic data out today.

Activity is up. We have five classes now.

Activity is going to slow down, we're going to ration energy. How much of an effect that's going to have on gross domestic product, no one knows.

Activity is benefiting from August's interest rate cut, increasing confidence in the housing market and still rising employment. This is likely to put a floor under house prices.

Activity in the manufacturing sector picked up early in the second quarter, in line with strong underlying fundamentals in the economy and stronger overseas demand. We can look forward to solid overall output growth in the second quarter of 2006.

Bill Stewart

Activity increases in all reporting segments and price improvements have contributed to the company's record earnings performance.

Andrew Gould

Activity increases and strong pricing momentum, particularly in North America, drove first-quarter results despite the severe curtailment of activity in Russia early in the year.

Activity has now contracted for two consecutive months, albeit mildly. As noted in the January release, the sustained strength of the rand exchange rate probably explains much of the pressure on manufacturing.

The Monster Employment Index has shown strong, steady, upward growth throughout most of 2005, with a noteworthy growth trend over the past four months, ending in an expected seasonal dip in December. The past month's decline indicates the slowdown in online hiring registered in December of 2003 and 2004, as employers typically wrap up their seasonal hiring activity and await approval on 2006 budgets. Despite this anticipated seasonal slowdown, almost all industries, occupations, regions and states show much higher levels of online job availability than a year ago, demonstrating solid growth over the course of 2005. This certainly bodes well for job seekers as we enter 2006.

Demand remains incredibly robust. Housing activity in the rest of the country was very robust, and the destruction in the Gulf states just wasn't enough to move the needle downward.

Declines in the real estate activity will probably spill over into consumer confidence and eventually lead to slower spending.

David Haas

Deals like this allow both sides to focus on their core strengths, while having a more diversified presence through each other's products and offerings. I fully expect more activity in deals like this as we roll through the business cycle.

Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.

Despite the improved revenue outlook, market conditions remain broadly unchanged as significant promotional activity is required to maintain seat factors.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the disruptions of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, economic activity appears to be expanding at a reasonably good pace as we head into 2006.

Despite signs nationally of a more normalized level of activity with regards to sales pace and price appreciation, our capital investments in these strategic markets afford us a significant competitive advantage and allow us to be well positioned for future success.

Any kind of ecological or human activity that requires snow or snow-free conditions are bound to be affected by that.

And then when they would focus their attention away they would see that the brain activity would go down.

Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

So much of what you see in the United States now was built when hurricane activity was low and there was a category 5 storm once every 30 years, not every year or two, ... Your investment decisions need to be revisited.

Technically, the search committee's work is completed once the feedback on this week's activity has been provided to the president.

Tech is a great place to be at the moment. Merger and acquisition activity and good company earnings make it a sector you have to be in.

Preliminary evidence suggests that these compounds may have some biological activity in slowing the growth of bladder cancer cells.

I've never studied it out, but it's not hard to realize that more numerous tornadoes seem to occur in that stretch. There's a history of intense tornado activity through that area.

Mary Meeker

I've never seen this kind of activity from these kinds of companies.

Pat Burns

It would be a great example of cooperation. It's a philanthropic activity that the community needs to get engaged with.

Richard Davidson

These changes in brain activity might be part of a pathway by which emotions affect asthma symptoms.

These results contain two very good pieces of news for the millions of Americans who have elevated blood pressure. Our previous research showed that making multiple lifestyle changes -- eating a healthier diet and increasing physical activity -- for a short-term period of six months led to significant reductions in blood pressure. Now we know that sustaining these lifestyle changes for the longer period of 18 months also leads to substantial blood pressure reductions. This is very good news because the longer people can keep their blood pressure down, the better it is for their heart health. The other good news is that this study shows that people can make and sustain these lifestyle changes over a fairly long time period.

The sharp slowing in domestic demand has dramatically reduced imports. Weakening economic activity in our major trading partners has significantly reduced the foreign demand for American-made products.

These data suggest that a bottoming in economic activity is taking place, but that a bit more inventory adjustment is needed to insure a re-acceleration in growth.

These data suggest that a bottoming in economic activity is taking place, but a bit more inventory adjustment is needed to insure a re-acceleration in growth,