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We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

You have to give props to IBM. They have had the discipline and the resources to keep these programs in place and functioning when many other companies have long since let it go.

The pipeline companies are doing everything in their power to get the product flowing.

There is definitely increased disclosure and discussion about the topic these days. Once companies are rewarded by the market for socially responsible investments, a virtuous cycle will kick off.

There is also the issue of debt forgiveness for some construction companies by banks,

Up until a week ago, companies had been running on expectations over fourth-quarter earnings. I don't think people are expecting anything bad. But more recently, it got to the point where these stocks ran up so much that a little profit taking ensued.

There is nothing like this drop since 1985. But the market should turn up by the first quarter of 2002, when the year-over-year comparisons should be easier for companies to beat.

There is nothing in the Medicare law that prohibits drug companies from providing these sorts of programs to people with Medicare.

The recent inspections of those companies are not at that site.

The original impetus was that these companies got contracts to work on Y2K. The good companies were able to transform themselves to provide services in the Internet area.

There is no real solution to stop identity theft immediately but the big tech trend is to focus on requiring stronger forms of authentication. And that's where security companies come into play,

We've held out that, as you move through the third-quarter earnings, the companies that report will show strong growth, ... Stock prices have been so compressed that it give investors reason to step in and pick up stocks at depressed prices.

Two companies have benefited from the time-to-market advantage: Yahoo! and Amazon. Those are the single success stories. Every single day, it gets more and more competitive.

This week, we were supposed to be ordering her graduation announcements and sending her resume to companies in Houston and L.A.. I told her Friday night that she didn't know what path God wanted her to walk and that perhaps she should expand her job search past New York.

We expect the sum of the two companies to be worth meaningfully more than the current price.

We don't think oil prices are going to rebound sharply. I think the deal that Mobil's doing is suggesting just that. I think most companies are hunkering down and they expect that prices are going to remain low for the next possibly one to three years. In this event, you may start to see more mergers occur.

We think investors should own companies like Wal-Mart, like Alberto-Culver and Neighbors Industries because they have good fundamental prospects in a recovering economy,

We're going to be a virtual network of companies existing primarily in cyberspace.

We're very encouraged that there is this much interest. Normally, these companies don't even consider a project that's less than $500 million.

Michael Dell

We see a healthy industry in the year ahead, ... Major demand drivers, including processor transitions and component cost reductions, remain solid, and consolidation is separating top companies such as Dell from the rest of the field.

John Bruton

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

February is going to be an extremely weak month. But some of the companies that go out are going to be a lot more interesting and a lot more valuable.

Few companies are pounding the table and saying things are terrific so there's not the wild enthusiasm you would expect with a good earnings season,

There's seven or eight companies fighting for 20 percent of the market.

There's probably only a handful of companies we could imagine doing something like this with and Target is at the very top of the list,

There's isolated incidents of companies (warning) because of patent expiration or pipeline problems or both, but they are very isolated.

Richard Smith

There simply aren't hundreds of derelict companies out there. It could happen on an isolated basis, but the mechanics don't exist for this to happen every 15 minutes.

There's going to be pockets of technology that do incredibly well, ... But the valuation is still being the core of the very large companies are quite high, especially if they're really cyclical in nature.

There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ... will be high enough to be felt once companies start reporting third-quarter earnings.

John Taylor

There's no question that in 2002 and 2003 that a lot of investment went to later-stage companies because they entailed much less risk.

There's no trodden path here. We can't go back and look at what other companies have done because no other company has done this.

There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive force to our industry.