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Market share for these two companies has eroded significantly, and sales of their most profitable products have plummeted.

Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3 2005. Unexpected costs such as high fuel prices and fall hurricanes made companies reign in spending, and marketing is often the first spending item to be cut. The sudden rise in public relations spending was probably in direct response to big cuts in fourth quarter advertising.

Seth Berkley

Massive numbers of vaccines would be needed and companies are concerned, 'who's going to pay for that,'

lines corporate coffers for a select few, and too many innocent companies and workers end up paying the tab. We need to end this unfair subsidization as soon as possible.

I still see that companies went overboard in slashing their work force in an effort to cut costs and to eliminate the hiring excesses of the 1990s. I think we have a shortfall of about 1.8 million jobs to make up.

I think RIM has a similar future as a lot of other once-dominant companies that Microsoft eyed. You might survive, but you're diminished.

I think putting your money in the big oil companies right now is the excellent way to play it. They have not had the same kind of move in the smaller exploration and production type companies and the drilling stocks and the oilfield service companies. Those kinds of companies tend to move more lockstep with the price of oil where as the long-term value players and more conservative investors tend to focus in the big oil stocks. So since they haven't made the move it's a great value opportunity.

I think most of the concerns for this industry have been factored into these stocks already as power prices have come down. But as you look longer-term...growth for these companies will be slowing.

We do, however, offer comprehensive voluntary guidelines to our member companies that are designed to help keep marketing practices ethical.

John Boehner

Without compliance reform, more companies will default on their plans or simply stop offering plans to their employees, and taxpayers will be at a greater risk of being stuck with a multibillion-dollar bailout of the PBGC.

We don't want to order these companies to spend $100,000 on something that's going to be obsolete before it's paid for.

We're always going to have some companies in the morass of reporting companies that aren't up to speed. Generally, the earnings for the quarter are good.

We're already seeing some companies yielding to pressure. But everybody is waiting for the big lady to sing, which is Exxon.

We have some good companies that pay good wages with good benefits.

We have been talking with several companies that are interested in sponsoring female drivers, ... These days it takes something a little different, and if you look at me and Sarah you can see we are a little different from all the other drivers out there because we are females.

We have been successful in identifying popular open-source software applications that our customers are interested in using on the Microsoft Windows Server platform and working with those companies or projects to ensure that solution is well integrated.

We must realize that companies such as Caterpillar are profiting from oppression.

Debbi Peterson

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a stranglehold on the market can raise rates.

Sherrod Brown

It does not hold insurance companies accountable when they make medical decisions that harm people.

Dan Rosensweig

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

I think fund companies figured out after Peter Lynch and Michael Price retired that there's a downside to creating star managers, ... It needs to be about the firm, not about managers.

It allows FedEx and some of their top technology people to mingle with other people involved in the leading edge of IT. The majority of companies in there are in technology, and all of the companies there use leading-edge technology.

It depends upon how the oil companies and distributors determine the price that they think the market will bear. So it's a very market driven competitive type of situation.

It did send a message to a number of companies of how serious we are. We would prefer not to go the litigation route, but will do so if necessary.

I think more companies will increase guidance and the rally will continue.

Frank Stronach

I think maybe there is a small tech startup companies out there where perhaps maybe the owner has horses and I think something like that would be an ideal person.

I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.

It has nothing to do with the economy. It was in the private equity unit where they tried to help fledgling tech companies get started.

I think the story is going to be the same going forward. We're going to see the tech companies reporting well. But the high interest rates we've seen so far have undermined some of the financial stocks and drug stocks.

John Wells

You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

Floyd Abrams

will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.

Who are they working for, these companies or the public? They are the public health department.