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This is at odds with reported wage growth of 5.4% for the year to December 2005.

This looks like a fraternal twin of the December 26 earthquake.

Even Home Depot's generally positive meeting yesterday was somewhat marred by the release of poor December housing starts.

Following a request from its sponsor (the ESA), the launch has been put back from December 26 to December 28.

John Berry

The problem in December was that we weren't going in the right direction. We inherited very little from the previous team.

We typically see severe weather in November, December and January; so some of our really severe events have actually happened in the winter time.

We had a similar motorcycle fatality in that exact same spot on December 4. The tire tracks for the two were only about a foot apart. It is a negotiable, well-marked curve, however.

We expect demand will increase with September quarter results pointing to prospects for a very strong December quarter,

The response to our Hawaii service that we started in December 2005 has been tremendous, and we are excited to initiate our second phase of service.

I'm surprised how low this (the December result) is.

Jan Hatzius

Income figures ... were surprisingly low for December given the strong gains reported for the fourth quarter on Friday and the likelihood that bonuses would have boosted December gains.

Gary Kubiak

If you look at the schedule it's got a period from October 29 to December 10 where we play five out of six on the road. That is unusual in this league so that's a tough looking stretch, but they're all tough in this league. Everybody can play in this league and schedules are all tough.

It was a reasonable performance and it would have been good if it were not for mobile phones. We think we might be seeing the first signs of recovery in the PC market. December was a reasonable month.

It just got too hard. It works a lot better if we do this on December 2 instead of January 27.

It looks like we'll have the third period in a row where revisions to estimates are positive. And top-line growth rates, which were negative for a while, will be positive for the third period in a row and will be higher than we saw in either December or March.

By December 2006, the new long-haul product will be on all routes.

Paul Johnson

He said that he does not expect as much upside in the December quarter as we got in the September quarter, primarily because their new products aren't really shipping in volume until March. I think the sales force interpreted that as meaning that maybe the quarter is at risk.

Hugh Johnson

Their (Exxon's) profits were very strong, and December personal income was higher than forecast.

Paul Kagame

What we need to do between now and December is work on the follow-up, to see things through, ... It would be unfair not to make use of our proximity to decision-makers.

The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in December and they pushed themselves to get here. We are a young team and it has worked through some tough times, stuck with it and focused on the end-of-the-year goals.

You typically see, from the trough of a recession to the time when the recession ends, a 1.3-percent gain in payrolls, ... From when the recession likely ended, in December of last year, we've had 0.004 percent gain, instead of that 1.3 percent gain. There's a pent-up demand for labor, given such a jobless recovery.

The last few weeks of December tend to be more defensive.

The main reason for the decline in the price index in December was the decline in energy prices -- while the index is down, it's still at a historically high level.

The construction gods have been really good to us in February and March. December wasn't very good to us weather-wise. But we've been very lucky to have such good weather recently for building.

The durable goods report for December was extremely strong. The headline rise of 1.3 percent was decent, but some of the underlying statistics were even more impressive.

The fourth-quarter results were in line with our December outlook and reflect the pervasive impact of a slowing worldwide economy.

The Cisco news isn't that significant, but maybe it's enough to influence people who were looking to get out. The S&P 500 had recently been right near its late December highs, so it's not too surprising to see this consolidation.

Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Vinton Cerf

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.