Howard Silverblatt
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Howard Silverblatt
Howard Da Silvawas an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he appeared in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion...
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All the big effects of the hurricane didn't happen.
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It would be nice if it turned out we were wrong again, that our forecasts for the second quarter were also too pessimistic, but unfortunately, I don't think that's going to be the case, ... With the ongoing currency situation, higher oil prices, and the more difficult comparisons year-over-year, a slowdown is to be expected.
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They're starting to spend some of the money,
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For the companies, to bring the money back at this rate was a no-brainer, ... Even if they were not planning to make use of the money immediately, when faced with the option of tapping the funds at a 5 percent tax instead of 35 percent, most of them just decided to do it -- it makes sense.
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For the companies, to bring the money back at this rate was a no-brainer. Even if they were not planning to make use of the money immediately, when faced with the option of tapping the funds at a 5 percent tax instead of 35 percent, most of them just decided to do it -- it makes sense.
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The bottom line is that the problem has definitely gotten worse. If this goes on much longer, it's not going to be just an investor concern, it's going to be a retiree concern.
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Either show the results or give it back to us.
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We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.
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While the magnitude is troublesome, the inability to compute and compare issue information is alarming.
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Unlike pensions, which are regulated, OPEB has no legal requirement to create a trust entity to fund the current and future costs. Additionally, specific tax treatments and credits set up to encourage pension funding do not exist for OPEB funds.
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We believe this project will have a significant impact on evaluations, income and balance sheets, and will become the major issue in financial accounting over the next five years.
When everyone has money, you get into a bidding war.