Famous Quotes & Sayings

BP Amoco is one of the few companies in the world that has publicly announced to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. Our goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by 10 percent of 1990 levels by 2010,

Geoff Hoon

This changeover will represent the first stage of our plans to withdraw the bulk of our deployed force by the previously announced timetable of mid-June,

pursuing previously announced earnings targets despite the challenging fourth quarter and extremely difficult market conditions.

RBS had very strong results and announced a big new buyback, while Lloyds TSB came out with a cost cutting program - HBOS is just in line after those performances, and its stock price has had a very strong run in the last several months.

Prices on several of our key products have started to move up in the U.S. and some of our major Asian markets are beginning to recover from the economic problems of last year, ... Overall, business has clearly improved, and we are optimistic that the price increases we announced will be fully implemented during the second quarter.

Projects that are announced today will be significantly delayed or will never come to fruition.

Eliot Spitzer

It's a scandal that is still unfolding, ... many criminal and civil cases that will be announced in the months to come.

They have the best of breed kinds of companies in two really good industries. They have a natural gas pipeline company. In addition, a fiber optic network which will be 33,000 miles. Each have the wind at their back and we think the combined businesses conservatively are worth 60. Right now the stock trades for around 45. The company just announced a way to unlock that value with a spin-off of their Williams Communications Group. So we think it's just a matter of time before that stock reaches 60.

Sharad Pawar

These are the worst hit places where the incidence of suicides are exceptionally high. While concerned states have already announced relief measures, the gravity of the problem has made the Centre chip in with financial assistance.

These are sound results, but we know we can do even better in the future, ... The revised strategy and new structure for the bank that we announced at the end of May will give us the focus and managerial accountability we need to further increase profitability in the coming years.

There will likely to be a Reserve call-up. The details aren't ready to be announced at this stage.

The sale of the shelf assets is the final step in our announced strategy to divest of lower-growth, shorter-lived properties and focus on higher-impact opportunities.

These are all cases that have already been announced (by Turkish authorities).

The scope of the inquiry and terms of reference will be announced shortly.

I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that 'it's an honour just to be nominated' rubbish. Then you see their faces when the split screen comes up as the winner is announced - the losers are all smiling through gritted teeth and looking as if they just swallowed half a pound of soor plooms.

All speculations regarding my role in the third round of candidate cities for 2012 are completely unfounded. I declare that I did not vote during the third round, as I had announced during the election in question.

The encouraging thing is that, after a couple of days, the Yugoslav government has announced that they will be treated as POWs,

The hotel capital markets continue to be flush with cash, due in part to the record profits the U.S. industry will have earned in 2005. There will be several major trophy hotel sales that will be completed or announced in the first half of 2006 with more to come after.

The hope was still there until they announced the last team. But there's nothing we can do about it now. We just have to get prepared for our games in the NIT.

You've got some mergers that were announced today that are very favorable to the market. People who thought the market was going lower are finally throwing in the towel and putting their cash positions to work.

All this speculation surrounding my role in the third round of voting for the 2012 candidates is totally unfounded. I state that I did not vote in the third round - as I had announced at the time of the vote.

You know, the clock continues to tick. The negotiators, I think, have left things perilously late in light of the date of the summit, which was announced well in advance.

You could be approaching $80 billion in announced deals for this month.

Chris Phillips

The major reaction when EA announced their exclusive deal in December was, 'God, this is a huge loss, not just for sports games but for the industry in general,'

The key point is that the two fundamental problems which lead to Wal-Mart insuring so few of its workers is the fact they have extremely high deductibles and very strict eligibility requirements, ... Nothing that they announced today addresses either of these fundamental problems.

The centre-left will win and revive the fortunes of an Italy thrust to its knees by the complete failure of the 'miracle' announced by Berlusconi five years ago.

The final results will not be announced before the beginning of next year because we have more than 1,000 complaints.

The company has been successful, in our view, in implementing its recently announced turnaround program.

The company's public relations people spread the word that the super-heating and cooling had produced a strangely high-quality wine. They announced to the press, 'Of course, this is a very expensive way to produce fine wines, and the Association will certainly not endeavor to repeat their success.' These wines were supposedly cased with a special label as a souvenir of the disaster.

The company officially announced that we were locked out.

The commission is investigating what is behind the statements at Farnborough fair when they simultaneously announced price rises.

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