Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Beinfest

There is always activity in Spring Training. Is there something we may do in the outfield? That's a possibility. I've never really done this before, this much of a redo. This is something new to me as well as the staff.

There is a lot of MEMS activity in universities at the moment.

Richard Boucher

We expect that the agency will fully investigate the matter and keep the board of governors fully informed. It is important that all such activity be investigated.

We expect that share of activity to grow.

We expect that by the time the 2005 hurricane season is over, we will witness seasonal tropical cyclone activity at near-record levels.

We expect housing activity to drop about 8 percent this year -- it's primarily because of the investors' slowing purchases.

We're going to try to return the city as much as possible to normal activity tomorrow, ... I don't think we can call it normal activity, but kind of approach it as much as possible.

We saw that in the MPLS competitive-bid activity that we went through.

We're very excited to have Mark Gracy move his company to Jefferson County. It's a positive sign for our county that maybe we're making that turn, starting to see increased activity in the business and manufacturing sector, ... Mike had a lot to do with this. If he wouldn't have gotten the grant from the state to help with the buildout cost on the building, this wouldn't be happening now. He pulled this deal together.

Julie Gerberding

We're very early in the flu season this year. We're seeing very sporadic activity in seven states, and one state with local activity, but it's way at the very early stages. So it's difficult to predict how severe the season will be, when it will take off, and when it will peak, and what ultimately the spectrum of impact will be,

We see a cold, hard, brittle outer layer, but a lot of activity underneath. Does it represent an ocean under there, or warm ice moving around?

U.S. Corporate Profits: Outlook And Credit Implications. Up until now, this has been subdued by strong corporate liquidity positions, but with manufacturing activity expected to rev up (as hinted by the fairly strong ISM manufacturing numbers and orders growth) and margins of slack in the economy set to diminish, strong growth in capital expenditures will be needed. In turn, this should raise external borrowing needs.

At the time he applied, for the purposes for which he wished to come to the United States, and based on a review of his activity in the past, it was determined that there was no basis for ineligibility.

Ben Bernanke

At this point, a leveling out or a modest softening of housing activity seems more likely than a sharp contraction, although significant uncertainty attends the outlook for home prices and construction.

Concern about the continued high level of energy prices and its impact on economic activity is again the number one topic on which survey respondents commented.

Concealing any activity from the other may create unnecessary suspicion and mistrust between husband and wife and the situation may go beyond repairs one day. Therefore it is in the best interest of both to share what ever they have so that it strengthens the mutual-bond and love.

Computer hacking is not fun and games. Hackers cause real harm to real victims. Would-be hackers... should be put on notice that such criminal activity will not be tolerated.

Consequently, the strength in the upturn in economic activity has become more uncertain inside and outside the euro area.

Digital music finally got off the ground in Europe in 2005, but it is important to retain a sense of perspective: paying for digital music is currently a niche activity and is still outweighed by file sharing which is conducted by 15 percent of European internet users.

Coughlin's in a tough position if he claimed (the money) was for secret union activity -- which may be illegal. That's a tough defense: 'I didn't do anything wrong because I was trying to do something nefarious on behalf of the company,'

Marsha Blackburn

Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses.

Construction activity in our key states continues to be very strong.

Consolidation activity is actually a signal that service providers are scared and will start spending money again. Equipment companies are long-term beneficiaries of this and frankly, I think that's what the bond market is smelling out,

Martin Lewis

The results of this research demonstrate that families are not meeting enough and because of this may suffer from a lack of understanding of each others' feelings and opinions, which can often lead to frustration and hostility. There are many benefits to sitting down and meeting as a family and you will see much activity encouraging both families and businesses to formally discuss important issues much more during National Meetings Week,

The result is that about 50 percent of the biomass carbon is retained. By sequestering huge amounts of carbon, this technique constitutes a much longer and significant sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide than most other sequestration options, making it a powerful tool for long-term mitigation of climate change. In fact we have calculated that up to 12 percent of the carbon emissions produced by human activity could be offset annually if slash-and-burn were replaced by slash-and-char.

There's quite a lot of promotional activity out there, more than last year. Retailers are desperate to maximize their footfall and recognize that in order to do that they need to give people a significant incentive to come into their stores.

There was a lot of activity with our pump crew dealing with stations that were without power. We lose some of the high-tech capability when the power goes out.

There was a lot of activity here. And it wasn't just a settlement of rich gentlemen who were lazy and didn't work and didn't know how to exist in the wilderness.

David Perry

There was a lot of activity because of the media reaction to it, ... If the CEO sees the alert on TV, he calls down and says, 'Take care of this right now.'

There was a flurry of legislative activity in the Roosevelt years and there were many factions in the Democratic Party which seldom spoke with one voice. So there was a lot of disagreement.

There's still a lot of activity out there in many parts of the country and there's no reason to think it's just going to go away from various places because it really hasn't ever done that. In all the states that have had West Nile, they've maintained some level of activity for West Nile.

There's inflation activity in the system, there's cost and wage pressures in the system, and we need to see that abate before we're prepared to see interest rates come off.

There's going to be a lot of activity out there this summer.