George Scalise
George Scalise
George Scalise was the former president of the Building Service Employees International Unionwho was convicted of racketeering due to the exposure of labor racketeering by newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for his reporting...
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We are hopeful that a systematic collection of the penalties meted out for IP violations will pressure those regions within China where the penalties are insufficient to deter counterfeiting.
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For the first time since the September quarter of 2000, Asia Pacific sales had a modest increase on a sequential basis reflecting improved supply-demand balance in the PC market,
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The new year got off to a good start. Retail sales, including consumer electronics products, were relatively strong in January.
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The October sales are another indication that the industry is on track to achieve our forecast of 4.7 percent growth in the fourth quarter.
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The biggest surprise is that the increase in energy cost didn't impact us at all.
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Strong competition contributed to declining prices for semiconductors, which resulted in nominal growth on higher unit sales in July,
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Strong holiday season sales of consumer products such as cell phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players drove record sales of semiconductors in November.
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They're perhaps approaching 75 percent or better by now. The consensus building is that there maybe a limitation to the upside in the quarter but it's not likely to get to the point where it's going to bring the numbers below what the analyst expectations are.
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The financial turbulence of Asia and other market changes have crimped the expected expansion of global chip markets in early 1998,
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The July data, and the year-on-year increase, confirm that a moderate but sustainable recovery continues, putting us on track for 7-9 percent sequential growth in the third quarter,
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All in all, we're very well aligned with what the president laid out in his State of the Union address the other night.
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The industry is currently experiencing lower sales due to an inventory overhang and deceleration in the end-equipment markets. Current forecasts suggest the inventory adjustment will be completed by the end of the third quarter, and end-market product demand will improve later in the year.
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Although business investment has yet to pick up, consumer confidence and inventory replenishing continue to rise, driving the early stages of the overall recovery,
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The information we have now says that the major foundries out there are ramping back up again and they had no damage to their facility or their equipment,