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This quarter's results reflect the success of our ongoing strategy to be a services-driven company. The primary driver continued to be DirecTV, where we added over half a million new subscribers worldwide, including 405,000 here in the United States.
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The use of the phrase 'sensitive times' is worrying investors. It casts doubt over the company's reputation.
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This is probably a good move, to have folks try to work out their differences beforehand and to get a jump-start in identifying the issues.
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This market needs real earnings and an economy that looks like it is turning around. The market is extremely volatile right now, but on thin volume, so it doesn't take too much to move it.
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Maybe this time around in reaching back to borrow from old movies, maybe Lucas or his people had trouble separating stereotypes from the sort of things that would help strengthen the movie.
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My wife represents the tasteful, I?m the tacky, ... We feed off each other?s ideas about what merchandise to include, and I am always in the back thinking of whimsical things to make.
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The one-day team is a little bit below the Test team at the minute, but we are building for 2007 and the World Cup. As a team and players, we had a lot of self-belief that we could turn things around (after first Test defeat at Lord's), and we also have a lot of self-belief we can do very well in the World Cup come 2007.
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The Festival of China . In terms of what we are trying to do on the international scene, this is the largest manifestation of that goal.
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Our coaching staff has worked very hard, and so have our players. They dedicated themselves to getting better, and once they developed confidence in themselves and started believing they could win everything just came together.
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It will limit the success if they're not materially better than the current-generation games. The analogy is, do you buy a new PC if you don't have a reason to? You just don't do it.
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It was a smart move on his part. It hurts us, no question. 'Spamalot' as an anchor would have been unbelievable for us. But it really remains to be seen if Vegas becomes a destination for musicals much beyond where it is now. We're watching with a great deal of interest.
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It's very important for Microsoft to win the hearts and minds of the developers.
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He's a young guy, but he stepped up. That's what we needed.
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That's a generic rule. I don't know if it applies to Bush,