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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Doubling the basic research funding over 10 years is a huge move because that's what needs to get done to get the pump primed.
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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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While information technology products will continue to be the largest market sectors for semiconductors, consumer products will be the major growth-drivers in the years ahead,
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There has been stronger-than-expected demand for our products across the board. There is far better inventory management, better capital investment management,
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There is some evidence of inventory accumulation of semiconductors and finished electronic products during the first quarter of 2006. We expect the electronic industry supply chain will respond quickly as it did late in 2004 and that inventories will be in balance by the third quarter.
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This region represented 46.6% of the global market for microchips at year end. The largest share of the market is in China, which has become the world's leading manufacturer of electronics products.
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While the computation sector is down, all other sectors including wireless and consumer continue to thrive. This increase drove the sales of such products as flash, digital signal processors, application-specific products and analog.
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We see very strong, solid demand pattern ahead of us. We're talking about 10 percent compounded annual growth rate between 2005 and 2008.
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We have full confidence they will be implemented and we will be very successful. This is going to be a bipartisan effort.
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We expect the modest growth we are experiencing in the first half of the year to continue throughout the remainder of 2002.
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While there are lingering concerns about the effects of high energy prices and the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the US, end markets for semiconductors continue to be very strong.
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We feel as though they not only heard us, but understand the situation and will respond in a way to bring about new programs. What's changed this time is a recognition of what we have to do to compete.
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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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U.S. semiconductor companies have over 70 percent of their manufacturing capacity in the United States, while less than a third of our markets are here.