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By early next year we expect starts to have begun to decline, though activity can probably remain close to current levels for another couple of months,

By promoting this part of the state, we're hoping to get a lot more production activity down here.

Ryan Holmes

By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives.

Home sales in June dipped more than expected following record activity at the beginning the year, which was spurred by exceptionally mild weather, ... Home sales should hold to a slower but more even course in the second half of the year.

Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth,

Gathering strength is evident in several areas of the industry with growth in the housing sector the strongest in almost two years as buyer activity has improved.

German employers are saying they will begin to add employees again, albeit modestly, and hiring activity in Japan should be vigorous, beyond what we normally see in the second quarter -- their peak hiring season. Chinese employers say they will reduce their hiring activity compared to last year at this time, while U.S. employers expect to add to their payrolls at a continued steady pace.

Illinois home sales most likely have reached their peak level in this four-year expansion, and Realtors expect 2006 to see healthy activity in the housing sector with continued favorable price appreciation.

Dorien Bryant

He's excited, a year of no type of activity is frustrating because you got to watch, but at the same time it's frustrating for everyone who wants to play. He's really looking forward to it.

Housing is a major bulwark for the economy. I would hate to think what would happen if and when the housing activity gets tapped out.

Housing activity remains quite robust despite the slowing economy, decline in jobs, and faltering stock market.

House prices tend to move seasonally, driven up by higher demand and activity in the warmer months and falling off towards Christmas. Just as the trading period over Christmas is crucial for the retail sector, the spring and summer are crucial for the housing market.

Housing-related activity has definitely slowed and its contributions to economic growth, both direct and indirect, will fade over the next couple of quarters.

Housing may get another mini boost from the recent drop in rates. These data do lag a bit. Still, it is clear that, low rates or not, housing is not on fire the way it once was. The level of activity remains quite high for housing. But the prospects for further growth do not look that strong based on momentum.

Alan Greenspan

Because there was little retrenchment during the cyclical downturn, the potential for a significant acceleration in activity in the household sector is likely to be more limited than in past business cycles,

The intention of the person or persons that threw the water balloon was probably a practical joke type thing but as you can tell it did cause some damage. . . . It's quite concerning to us that this type of activity resulted in people from Washington state not having a very good experience in our neck of the woods.

The large skew indicates that the market is bracing for short-term volatility in Harley Davidson ahead of its earnings report, and the defensive put activity seems to suggest that some traders are concerned that the volatile move might be to the downside.

their involvement in illicit activity is one, their human rights practices are another, their weapons programs is a third.

There is a principle in exercise called the principle of specificity. What it says is if you want to do a particular activity very well, you need to train specifically for it.

There are glimmers of activity that remind me of the early days of the Internet bubble. I wouldn't call it irrational exuberance yet, but I would call it budding enthusiasm.

After a few failures in the struggle with terrorists, public opinion has been very critical of the lack of systematic activity between government agencies. This is an attempt to answer these complaints.

Strictly private activity is not regulated under critical habitat.

Some expected these bees to be a major threat to agriculture and life in the Southwest. Others expected an initial surge of activity and then the problem would somehow go away. The truth in New Mexico is somewhere in between.

Speculative activity will continue to dominate price movements, with fund interest based on justifications such as economic slowdown, inflationary concerns and hopes of Asian central bank buying and soaring physical demand.

We wanted a lot of activity and a lot of life on the outside of the building. We thought that this is a project that will expand the downtown down Market Street. This was the next big jump.

We listen closely to our customers and understand how important transparency is to them. That's why we're putting nutrition information right into their hands. Our ongoing efforts to provide menu choice and variety and be an advocate for physical activity are further demonstrated here today.

David Martin

This doesn't surprise me, as we see this pattern in other chronic pain problems: you can relieve pain, but it's a lot harder to prompt activity changes. A chronically ill person needs more than symptom relief to resume a normal lifestyle. We're now beginning to work on that problem.

This decline in exports is consistent with other data indicating that economic activity in most foreign countries remained weak at the start of the year.

This decision was made during the recall campaign and was designed to limit political activity at state facilities.

This functionality is backed up by Windows Live features like centralized storage and it can be managed from anywhere. We've got Web-based activity reports so that you can keep an eye on what your family is doing online from any location.

This forward-looking index indicates broad optimism that the expansion of manufacturing activity will continue throughout the year.

This bill will encourage criminal activity because it does not provide any means for the legal purchase of medical marijuana.

This area of employment activity seems to be going full bore now. That was the characteristic we saw in the last expansion in the 1990 s. This sector was red hot then and it appears to be taking on that pattern again now.