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We believe that these initiatives, together with improved cash flow from business operations, have enhanced our financial flexibility. We currently have sufficient resources to retire the remaining '06 convertible notes at maturity and based on current forecasts we believe we will have sufficient liquidity available to satisfy the $146 million of 5% convertible notes due March 2007. As previously announced, during the first quarter of 2006 we purchased in the open market $30 million face value of our outstanding $471 million aggregate principal amount of 9.25% Senior notes due February 2008.

Eskinder Nega

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopia's prosperity.

Although this tax is not the largest of the taxes that are out there, in the aggregate it does impact.

As a region, producers -- in aggregate -- are losing $125 million per year. If nothing's done, the problem will only get worse.

As a policy maker, I'm only going to pay attention to the workweek if I think it's a trend. But the fact is that since July of 2004, we've been at either 33.7 or 33.8 hours on the aggregate workweek. My feeling is that the workweek declined in February in part because of a decline in construction but that in general, it's probably going to bounce back to 33.8 next month.

Television was substantially weaker than expected, ... The aggregate strength of that growth rate in the weakest quarter for News Corp is a very positive indication of how undervalued the stock is at current levels.

The share price appreciation of each of these companies has significantly outperformed its respective industry groups, the S&P 500 and Cendant, giving greater credence to our view that the aggregate valuations of the four proposed new companies will exceed that of Cendant today,

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The only way the board is going to change on the aggregate is if the community gets involved.

What we do is we measure the response time to process one of these e-mail transactions for each one of those servers. And then we aggregate that data cross all of those servers every five minutes.

George Akerlof

In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level.

Martin Feldstein

We do not understand the links between asset prices, monetary policy, and aggregate demand. We do not understand speculative markets adequately.

While the monthly December data was not itself a negative surprise, the aggregate 2005 total was a rude reminder.

With few signs that consumer prices are about to break to the upside ... along with signs that aggregate demand remains robust, we expect the Fed will not only vote to keep rates constant, but will leave the growth and inflation bias statements unchanged.

We want to aggregate video and other content and make it available in a legal and sanctioned area.

Ben Bernanke

In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.

Ron Carlson

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

When there would be changes, they'd staff up the Social Security offices. Every congressman would staff up the office. Every mayor had a Social Security specialist so at the local level they could help people see how their benefits changed. The aggregate long list of choices - calling an 800 number, going to a website - is just very hard for seniors.

Shashi Tharoor

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

For us, we have a tremendous asset in the customer base, ... We haven't done as good a job as I think we can at understanding the aggregate customer business.

If the Series is two large-market teams, like the Yankees versus the Dodgers, aggregate revenues would easily exceeded rights fee payments.

Some modest further increase in the policy interest rate would be required to keep aggregate supply and demand in balance and inflation on target.

Markets become disorderly due to aggregate psychology. That's difficult for anyone to assess at any time, but you look for red flags, like significant overreactions to data,

We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 1998, which was disappointing.

We are training for objective behavior characteristics. Certainly, there is some interpretation, but there has to be such an aggregate number of concerns before we do get involved, and there will be constant review and oversight and analysis of the data to be sure their folks are performing in a proper manner.

Winwood Reade is good upon the subject, said Holmes. ""He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

We continue to believe that aggregate service provider spending in the U.S. will actually grow about 10 percent in 2001, and that our companies will report an average revenue increase of 25 percent next year. Despite this, the average price-earnings multiple of our group is now approaching levels last seen in 1997-98.

For the peace activists, they are good, symbolic results. They can use them to impress people with how widespread opposition is. But they're misleading as far as aggregate public opinion. It's an April election, which has very low turnout. So as a public opinion specialist, I have to point out how unrepresentative highly motivated voters are in an April election.

If ever there were any doubts that the (Bank) would this week do anything other than keep interest rates on hold, the December monetary aggregate numbers are likely to dispel the doubts.

if ever there was a time to run a deficit, it was during that recession and it was this kind of deficit where you promoted an aggregate supply.

Combined, these people have a greater aggregate income than some third-world countries. How has America hurt them? How have they been injured by what's taking place in America? And where are their ideas and solutions?

Merton Miller

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

We're now close to $1 billion in aggregate sales proceeds while we continue to evaluate alternatives for our remaining stations,