Famous Quotes & Sayings

This move no doubt responds to a relative lack of commercially available credit models in the market, and the strong need for more advances in this space. Banks need proven credit models backed by experience and strong data sets, both to use as primary sources of default prediction and to benchmark their own internally-developed models against. This is now a key strategic advantage, and banks that do not use state of the art credit models will find themselves at a distinct disadvantage, both from a pricing and origination perspective, and a portfolio profitability perspective.

Laura Bush

I can't think of a better representative than Laura Bush, ... She's going to help advance the freedom agenda -- which is really the peace agenda.

I couldn't get any tour support, and I couldn't get any advance money from anybody, so I still had to make my rent money from my day job.

Reid Scott

I'd taken some classes at UCB in New York and again at the Magnet Theater and the PIT Theater. I definitely never advanced to where I was on a team or anything like that.

I doubt the advance is done for the year. There are a lot of seasonal characteristics that are in play and there is still a lot of liquidity.

I'd rather not subpoena Ms. Stewart, ... I've extended an invitation to talk with our investigators. I said we'd do that in the place of her choosing in a nonpublic way without advance notice to the press so we wouldn't have paparazzi there. But she's declined to do that.

I am proud and often quite astonished at the numerous ways artists, post houses, and other creative firms use our image enhancement and restoration tools to advance the quality of material that is enjoyed by so many. We want to thank everyone for their participation in the third-annual competition, and we are happy to showcase the innovation, artistry, and expertise of the creative talent behind the most high-profile and cutting-edge projects today.

An integrated open source systems management platform is ideal for organizations with custom applications that are seeking an alternative to proprietary solutions. These organizations will benefit from then flexibility of an open source solution to enable advanced automation and monitoring of their data centers and the applications that drive their businesses.

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science. Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

Gordon Brown

Every advanced industrial country knows that falling behind in science and mathematics means falling behind in commerce and prosperity.

Emerging countries don't have the same requirement for advanced functionality and therefore go for the baseline stuff with a low entry point. That's a concern for Microsoft, and is why it is launching 'Windows light' and 'Office light' versions for countries such as Thailand.

Ending 2005 with the highest wages for skilled technology professionals recorded in five years is a high water mark for the industry. Despite major economic setbacks during the year, the technology industry has demonstrated its strength and confirmed its power to propel the employment market in a positive direction. Between the growing need for information security experts, highly-knowledgeable ERP and Internet-based technology professionals, and advanced healthcare technology to help answer the call of aging baby boomers, our outlook for the technology employment market and its wages is optimistic for 2006.

Clayton Christensen

Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

Editors fear there won't be enough news to fill the paper, so tons of stories are prepared in advance

Edge underscores the bold, American design direction for all Ford vehicles going forward. Edge also is packed with Ford innovation from its panoramic glass roof and laptop-friendly center console to fuel-saving engine and advanced safety features. We expect Edge to make waves in the hot crossover market this year just like the Fusion did for midsize cars last year.

Early yesterday morning, Dole approached the port to see if we could do anything in advance of that 30th of September date, and all of the agencies, all of the service providers came together and we were able to receive the ship this morning around 10:30.

Charles Barkley

Dr. King would be No. 1 thrilled with the racial advances we've made, but he would be disappointed in the state of black America with all this black-on-black crime, teenage pregnancies, kids not getting an education.

E-Retailers used to be at a disadvantage because customers can't touch and feel their products, but they've figured out that there's a whole lot more they can offer to make up for that. Today's online stores have evolved significantly, offering advances such as 360 degree views of products, customer reviews, side by side product comparisons, and extensive product information and specifications that often exceed what is available in a store or catalogue.

Scott Stossel

Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.

Mark Gottfried

Florida's a team we're going to watch advance through the tournament.

Billy Donovan

Flat out, the past several years -- to be totally honest -- we weren't good enough to advance. They didn't advance far enough in the tournament because maybe some of the past teams weren't built to make a deep run in the tournament.

Hu Jintao

featuring a more developed economy, improved democracy, advanced science and education ... and higher living standards for the entire 1.3 billion people.

Esther Williams

Fernando certainly lived up to his advance billing: God knows he'd had enough practice to have earned a black belt in the bedroom arts.

Richard Boucher

Events during the last year again demonstrated the crucial role the press plays to advance the struggle for freedom,

Jim Lee

Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.

Roy Halladay

Even in the spring when they had so many pitchers at an advanced age I wondered about how they would do,

Be very forceful in communicating whether you want to be notified if there is a change of condition and they'll be transporting your relative somewhere, whether it's day or night. Advance directives are always helpful, but I've seen patients with these and sometimes the dots don't get connected.

Between the growing need for information security experts, highly-knowledgeable ERP and Internet-based technology professionals, and advanced healthcare technology to help answer the call of aging baby boomers, our outlook for the technology employment market and its wages is optimistic for 2006.

Jon Runyan

Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas and strategies serve to advance their own interests and expand their donor base.

Board members in starkly religious terms changed the science curriculum to advance a specific religious viewpoint.

Joseph Murray

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

Biotech is one of the best groups to trade on a seasonal basis because the stocks tend to trade up in advance of or during conferences.

Richard Flanagan

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.