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Clearly world events are dictating the pace and the activity here. As we've seen in many of the afternoons over the past couple of weeks, individuals and traders just don't seem to be willing to hold positions overnight based on what's going on around the world.

Clearly, we believe in the image of the Olympic Games, the competition, the high-end quality of the whole event. We want to associate our brands with that activity and have now for over 20 years.

Will Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity

Canada may even regain G7 leadership by the end of this period if, as we expect, the pace of U.S. activity moves down to a sub-three per cent trajectory for the first time in nearly half a decade.

Calls to this tip line should be limited to fraud activity and corruption by businesses or persons engaged in purported contract fraud, procurement or purchasing fraud, and/or fraud of federally funded programs,

Mary Williams

Call it a beautiful coincidence for us. We?re looking to pull out any waste in our production line. We?re focusing upstream in the production process, receiving and assembly preparation. It could come in the form of reducing steps and wasted motions, paperwork or activity that does not add value to the product.

Industrial activity may moderate this year but will still remain strong. Monetary tightening by the central bank has raised concerns about the growth outlook.

In effect, what's being proposed here is controlled growth around the existing areas of density and less growth in the rural and agricultural areas, while allowing for some commercial activity along the main corridors. This is to prevent sprawl, where growth happens wherever. The county actually had some very positive comments about the ordinance. They said it was cutting edge.

In an environment providing real-time information to media, any security incident, triggered with malicious intent or not, can have disastrous consequences. For a highly visible event like the Olympic Games, the challenge of IT security is not only to prevent unauthorized people from accessing the systems, but to control the activity of authorized people inside the games' network.

I'm not sure we as a community are spending the kind of resources we need. The public sector needs to step forward. And I think that's a good use of public dollars because this activity creates jobs.

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.

If many parents would just go back to the future and think about what life was like when they were children - from hopscotch to the adventure of climbing trees - it would go a long way toward promoting more physical activity by their kids.

If Michael had not been there at the right time and taken the initiative to really investigate what was going in that house, right now I would be in child prostitution or some criminal activity because of the situations that I was put in. I owe him my life.

If oil prices fall, it will help to stimulate economic activity -- the profit outlook will be better and also lower oil would bring down costs, making stocks the better asset class.

If I were a citizen protester, I wouldn't want people reporting on me, and we don't. ... Ground Zero has had a regular protest activity at the Bangor (submarine base) front gate. We don't collect on any one of those individuals out there. They are exercising their rights and are peaceful demonstrators.

In 1999, we'll see more consolidation activity as leaders gain more scale.

Zhang Ziyi

I never thought I'd be able to go to the White House and participate in an activity like this. It's a great honor.

Tom Daschle

I'm very disappointed and somewhat surprised that there has been that kind of activity this early, ... It certainly violates the spirit of the agreement that we just all agreed to last week.

In diabetes, a healthy weight and physical activity really help improve blood sugars, and the kinds of food you eat and how much (you eat) does, too.

John Deane

Increased business activity and acquisitions present us the opportunity to reconfigure our operations, and we are excited about the opportunities this new facility brings us.

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

In cold years you have more activity than in warm years,

In its own way, this activity of testifying before the Congress is most like being a professor. You start by giving a lecture. And then you submit, so to speak, to questions from your students. So temperamentally, I think he's very well-suited to this sort of congressional appearance.

In all fairness, it may be down a little right now. I still feel it is a big number regardless. With all the activity with the Strip properties and all their different venues, these taxes are being collected.

In a period when there were a lot of M&A heated activity they, by virtue of being in the penalty box, could not realistically look at anything because there would be a question mark as to whether you could really close any transaction in a reasonable time.

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.

The FBI has really stepped up its mortgage fraud investigations. But as you can expect, the agency will only go after someone if their name links up with other reports and there is a sufficient amount or activity to warrant an investigation.

The consequences of declines in physical activity over time are now evident by the large proportion of society with poor fitness levels.

The continued improvement in services-sector activity is particularly impressive given the head winds restraining the consumer-related sectors.

Sharon Robinson

The children's version, MyPyramid for Kids,' was developed in recognition of the fact that many children have diets that are poor, and children often do not get the physical activity they need to stay healthy,

The catalyst for deals is generally rising corporate profits, ... We should have rising activity next year.

The challenge there is that we're looking for larger users, and there's been some leveling off of activity the number of clients looking to build large facilities. And rising fuel costs may have had an impact on that.