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I don't think it is possible, speaking for myself, to know whether there will need to be additional tightening moves or whether we are at a place we can hold for a while. We are at a balanced point.
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I don't think it's bad to have a bunch of sponsors and teams not be frustrated by not making the show. Sending people home in my opinion is not good for sponsors and not something that I relish.
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From their perspective, it's well within their rights to do it. They probably feel keeping the pressure on will make the process go faster.
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From the third inning on, he was the John Lambert we're used to. He was really in charge.
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Fortunately, we have not had the kind of negative impact many feared.
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For us it's a fairness issue, it's a justice issue, and it's a legal issue.
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Forty-four sharks is a lot of sharks. It's exciting stuff. I'm ecstatic. It was a really good week.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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For the year, Xerox's revenue growth should be in the 5- to 6-percent area. In the second quarter, they have to start making progress of about 4 to 5 percent,
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Given the trend in California with more and more regulations, you have to become larger just to be able to handle all the regulatory requirements. Sometimes you have to get larger just to reach those big economies of scale to. So it's not only a cost element, but you also need a large enough operation to make it work.
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Given the steady diet of 'measured' rate hikes the Fed has provided in the past year and a half, many of you may be wondering when enough is enough. Let me first respond by saying, the closer we get, the less explicit we can be on that point; it's my personal opinion that as policymakers we should resist the temptation to say more than we know at any given time.
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GM's strong cash position and our expectations for future cash flow make it possible for us to return cash directly to stockholders in an effective and timely manner,
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If it doesn't rain in the next 10 days or so, there will be no wheat in the northeast Texas area. What little bit did come up is dying. It's like a desert here this year.
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If it doesn't help, I damned sure don't know what will.