Bill Sullivan
Bill Sullivan
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We call this our neighborhood bar - it's our home. I can walk in and they have my drink ready before I even get to the bar.
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Japanese produced goods will become less competitive on the global market place as the yen appreciates and that's going to slow the recovery process, not only in Japan, but Asia as a whole.
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We'll continue to look for acquisitions to grow our portfolio.
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It does not seem as though this will be an Adlai Stevenson moment. I think a lot of his evidence may be open to wide interpretation. Unless there's a huge surprise, it doesn't seem that the evidence provided will turn global opinion against Saddam.
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With so many events looming ahead, there is no incentive to take any major positions.
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We have been on a high-growth path in India since we began our R&D services and financial services operations there in 2001. With the test and measurement market in India growing at an accelerated rate, we are expecting to triple the revenues from India in the next two to three years.
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What I enjoy most are the three-quarter-mile walks to the bathroom. This is who I am.
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We're trying to put a bright picture on the State of the Union address. We're well above the losses we saw several hours ago.
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This should be a party like none other in Highland.
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Typically, at the present stage of an economic rebound -- roughly two years after the trough in economic activity had been reached -- corporations are borrowing aggressively, funding capital expansion projects, payroll additions and inventory accumulations,
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Today starts a new chapter of Agilent. We have made decisions today for us to be able to focus on our core that we have been a leader in for the last 65 years.
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We are delighted to be here. This is a success story.
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The data will look better, but it's going to be very difficult to distinguish whether it represents real change.
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We started the session with this tremendously upbeat commentary in the press and a clear mind-set on Wall Street for the economy to improve in 2003. Lo and behold, the first significant statistic of the year underscores that point of view, so we're off to the races.