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Rather than viewing a contract simply as documenting a deal for the future, smart businesses use it as a source of information. Lawyers can set up incentives so that payments only get made if certain benchmarks are met.

Prices received rising so much is the first sign that businesses have increased power to pass on these energy-price increases. Energy will shortly be a major factor in the inflation equation, and this is what the Fed is worried about, so expect policy makers to keep pushing interest rates higher.

Daniel Burnham

Our defense businesses are hitting on all cylinders, having consistently met or exceeded targets for revenue, cash and margin.

Jim Gerlach

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

Our customers down there are seeing their businesses expand and our opportunities are growing in the region.

Our customers are dramatically impacting their businesses through supplier and customer data management. In general, the marketplace is learning to leverage data more effectively. The results can be translated directly into savings, lower risks, improved revenue and profitability -- all the result of better business decisions.

People said things like public transport will not cope, London will become a ghost town, businesses will be driven out and nobody will come to central London to shop any more. None of that has turned out to be true.

People can get hurt. Businesses can be ruined.

Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.

North Dakotans are hard workers. Looks to me like the low crime rate and lack of commuting problems should be effective in getting businesses to come into the state.

Once the population hits a certain point, it makes it worthwhile to have more businesses that cater to that population.

The more fundamental strategic review -- in particular as to whether any businesses get sold or not -- probably will happen, but not in the very short term.

The money channeled from failed industries to small businesses would be taxed at higher rates, and that would be harmful to the economy,

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Rick Perry

Coastal Texans should not wait until late Thursday or early Friday to leave. Homes and businesses can be rebuilt. Lives cannot.

A recent national survey shows that 80 percent of American businesses want their employees to have post-high school education, yet in Tennessee less than half of our students are actually getting it.

Jim Norton

These models save businesses a lot of money, but when something goes wrong there is no slack in the system to handle it. Businesses should be investing some of their savings from e-business models into contingency planning.

Jim Shaw

The smaller shopping centers, the leases were too long and way too expensive and pretty much ironclad. The mall offered a short-term six-month lease, and were very willing to work with new businesses to help us get up and get going. That was really a determining factor for locating here. Plus, there's more exposure and longer hours.

The success and even survival of many businesses today rests squarely on the security and reliability of their technology systems.

Andrea Tantaros

The Spitzer ticket misses the point. The way to create jobs and improve the climate for businesses is to cut taxes and control spending.

The taxes on businesses are generating substantial funds.

The survey showed that 75% of businesses saying they were struggling to cope with change.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

Steve Sanders

A firm like J.C. Flowers buys businesses at a low price, fixes them up and sells them off a few years later for a much higher price. We're interested in running a futures business and we have expertise in this.

After many years of decline, I am pleased to tell you we are starting to see volume improvement in lending and deposits. Our businesses are continuing to perform as expected.

The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.

Some Solomon Islanders have been resentful of the Chinese. (The Chinese) were taking up all the businesses in town and all the staff and prices were increasing unreasonably.

Sometime during the quarter, we will see strong signs of a turnaround in our major businesses such as Nand flash and LCD.

Some businesses may be so busy that they're looking for an extra hand in terms of bookkeeping. Or, they may want guidance in reshaping their bookkeeping methods. Whatever the reason is, we're there to help out.

Jennifer Dunn

so that families don't have the sell their businesses and farms when Mom and Dad die.

Sony should concentrate on games, movies and music and software businesses rather than hardware businesses. I'm not quite sure about their concentrating on flat-panel TVs because this is a very competitive market.

Sons- and daughters-in-laws are going after family businesses now -- and it's only going to increase.