Mark Bryant
Mark Bryant
across budget months revenue six
Six months into the budget we were under budget on revenue across all the courts,
concern conviction economic growth pace summer tough
There's no conviction out there, ... There's a lot of concern that the pace of the economic growth is slowing, and summer is just a seasonal tough time.
hurdles three
The three hurdles that we had to get over this summer, we got over without incident.
anyone attention brian detail games great pay players seen
I've never seen anyone pay as much attention to each detail as Brian does. Because of him, our players go into games with a great sense of what to expect.
labor pick volume
After the convention, after Labor Day, volume should pick up and we'll go from there,
kicked people summer until vacation waiting
A lot of people are still on vacation right now, the summer doldrums have kicked in, and everyone is waiting on Friday's payrolls number, ... There's just not going to be much liquidity until then.
expecting last people rally seen stretch
A lot of people were expecting last year's rally to stretch out, and what we've seen has been disappointing.
attribute basically blue decline oil seen somewhat
A lot of this (rally) you can attribute to oil being down more than a dollar, ... You had basically a one-stock decline with 3M this morning, and because that is somewhat seen as a proxy for the economy, like GE, it was weighing on the blue chips.
bear please
This is hard, so please bear with me.
gaining hard keeps oil seem
Oil keeps gaining and it doesn't seem to want to stop, ... It's hard to get any (stock) traction when that's happening.
certainly oil passed people talking uncharted
Oil is certainly not helping, ... We passed $50 a barrel, and as to be expected, people are now talking $60 or more, which is uncharted territory.
adopt board consider figures led lower meeting pertinent
A re-analysis of pertinent figures at Monday's meeting led the board to consider and adopt the lower figure,
bloodshed clear dependent forward iraqi next step week
I think next week will be dependent on the Iraqi elections, ... If things don't go too badly, there is little bloodshed and a clear winner, it will be another step forward for the country.
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In that very moment when I had the reality of knowing that six of my children were gone, God did something very precious, ... The Garden of Prayer.