David Dyer
David Dyer
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Obviously, our ability to predict future sales and earnings has not been borne out by experience so far this year, ... We need to adopt a wait-and-see approach to the rest of the year. The holiday season is always very important to us but it is really the key to a successful year this time out.
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Zach has every bit of ability on the mound. And when he's on, he's nasty.
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We've made much progress in this past quarter, especially in getting our inventory more closely aligned with sales, restructuring our organization into functional operating units and putting people in key leadership roles,
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We have worked hard for nearly a year to cooperate fully with the United States Attorney's Office, and are pleased that it has determined to close its investigation,
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We believe this transaction is a validation of the brand and the global opportunities that lie ahead.
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We made too many errors tonight and we can't keep playing sloppy and win, especially when we get to the region games. On the positive side, we scored in every inning but one.
We wanted to be in retail, and now we've got 870 stores, so we're really in retail,
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extremely pleased with our first quarter performance, having demonstrated strong sales and a significant improvement in earnings. This was especially gratifying in the face of a difficult economy.
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The Stock Market Game is important. It gives students a real-life connection to economics instead of being in a textbook all the time.
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This is a further important step in putting these matters behind us and focusing our full attention on the strategic and operating initiatives that we have undertaken to grow our businesses.
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The way things are going now, I just hate that we have a bye this coming Monday.
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We share a lot of common character and culture,
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We hit the ball well with runners in scoring position and we only made two errors defensively.
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I knew that errors were going to be the key to this game. They had three errors and we only had two and that was really big.