Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hikes in interest rates, severe drought conditions in the Northeast, and rising gasoline prices have helped dampen overall consumer optimism.

The lack of improvement in labor market conditions continues to dampen consumers' spirits, ... Despite September's retreat, consumers remain cautiously optimistic about the outlook for the next six months. Consumer spending is likely to continue at or near current levels.

Jacques Chirac

what we need, at the very least, is to reexamine conditions of the embargo.

We decided to use these challenging economic conditions to position ourselves better going forward.

After growing at a very strong pace in 2005, we are now detecting a slowdown in the pace of growth. Just as nondurable goods manufacturers reported improving economic conditions, durable goods producers detailed a pullback in economic conditions for the month. I expect this slower pace of growth to continue into 2006.

After experiencing severe turbulence over Eastern India we are pleased that the weather conditions have now settled down and that, thankfully, it was short lived.

Some disabilities are inherently prone to subjective rating decisions, especially conditions such as PTSD where much of the information needed to make a rating decision is not physically apparent. This subjectivity leads to inconsistency.

South Korea's habitats have been exploited many times over and North Korea's environmental conditions are dismal at best,

We do not think, however, that this means that he would oppose the (AT&T-BellSouth) deal or even necessarily require conditions he advocated as a lawyer.

This is a negotiation not for ransom, but to find out what they want and under what conditions the hostages can be released. Without fighting, the other party may not be in a condition to talk at all.

Peter Hain

Provided the enabling environment is established and maintained, this program will be achievable within two years, though if the conditions are right to move more quickly in implementing elements of the plan, the government will do so,

Anthony Zinni

The threat conditions in Aden were better than elsewhere,

It wasn't that bad. I'd much rather pitch in these conditions than be a hitter. At least as a pitcher you're constantly moving.

It was brutal. With the wind chill, the temperatures were in the 30s. We've got a lot of kids under the weather right now. I'm glad we won't be playing in those kind of conditions again.

Richard Boucher

They report that the conditions of detention are fine and that the people are in good health.

The viciousness of the storm took aback even the most seasoned members of our team. It was one of the worst conditions for search and rescue personnel that we've seen in a long time.

The working conditions are getting more difficult, they're impeding progress.

Gary Young

These are very desperate conditions that we're in now. These are the wrong conditions for the use of fireworks of any kind under any circumstances.

These are the strongest global conditions for metals since the sixties, since bell-bottoms were in. There's room for the miners' earnings to grow more than the market currently expects.

Tom Watson

The scoring conditions were ideal with no wind and I played well today. It was a good ball-striking day but I could have putted a little better.

The scope of the course is really enormously broad, from the earliest conditions that can lead to life, to higher-level questions about finding intelligent life.

The science data set to return next year will have a huge impact on the way in which we deal with conditions on Earth, demonstrating how the exploration of the solar system has real impact on our daily lives.

You need a product that specifically works in Indian conditions ... you can't just launch something you have in other markets.

I have played nicely for three days. As long as I can keep my head straight and not lose it, these conditions suit my game.

Mitch Daniels

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

For now, their release is tied to the fulfillment of our stated conditions by the Nigerian government. We know that won't happen so soon, so in other words we intend keeping these guys for a long, long time.

Steve Jones

All of the conditions and elements were there for major problems out of these storm cells. I'd say it was divine intervention that we didn't get hit harder than we did.

All the conditions are there for further rate cuts.

All the conditions are right and we are going to work hard to get these kids ready.

All these are linked to the World Wide Web, so I can be in my office and look and see what the conditions are out at Bahia Grande by accessing lighthouse.tamucc.edu,

The market needed something quite extraordinary in the form of Hurricane Katrina to produce the unprecedented high prices that we saw in 2005. It's unlikely ... that all those conditions would repeat themselves.

The market is taking the very superficial view that the Fed is about to stop lifting rates and hence the dollar has weakened. I'm hesitant to pick this as the start of dollar weakness given that we've still got relatively illiquid trading conditions until next week.

The market has done part of the job, but this tightening is not yet substantial -- financial conditions are still near their loosest points in many, many years,