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LI DEQUAN the surprising sustainability of 30 percent-plus growth over the next 10 years.
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AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CUTTS The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CREWS CUTTS A cut...won't affect the 30-year fixed mortgage rate at all. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year f...
LAWRENCE YUN A 30-year fixed loan is really an insurance policy that the rate won't change.
JAY LUBER The Fed's rate hike on Tuesday was expected and the Fed's cautiously optimistic outlook calmed the m...
AMY CUTTS The Fed's rate hike on Tuesday was expected and the Fed's cautiously optimistic outlook calmed the m...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT The last few months of 2005 marked the first time since mid-2004 that the fixed-rate mortgage was ab...
VINCE MALTA Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing sys...
BILL ACKMAN Taking into consideration the fact that mortgage rates have fallen from the earlier peak at the end ...
FRANK NOTHAFT Whenever you can get a muni-bond at or over 6 percent, that's a very attractive rate.
MARIO DEROSE Think about the relative merit of variable rates versus fixed-rate credit. Locking in a fixed rate n...
FRITZ ELMENDORF Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gro...
GAIL WILENSKY We are 30 percent over what we were last year.
BRENDA RYANS Compared to the 30-year fixed mortgage, the 40-year fixed mortgage offers monthly loan payments that...
THERESA PARKER We thought about an ARM, but the rates are so close we opted for the security of a 30-year fixed.
AMY STEWART If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today, because people want to get...
JEFF GREENE Our hypothesis is that smokers who receive counseling will be more likely to quit smoking. We are ho...
DR. LORI BASTIAN We look for actual GAF (General Merchandise, Apparel, and Furniture/Furnishings) spending - which ac...
IRWIN COHEN We look for actual GAF (General Merchandise, Apparel, and Furniture/Furnishings) spending - which ac...
IRWIN COHEN This dropped to 95 percent with a seven-year ownership term and to 92 percent with a five-year owner...
MARK MILNER We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG
In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000... DAVE REICHERT While the general economy was relatively flat in the fourth quarter of last year as measured by the ...
DANIEL MECKSTROTH Our turnover rate as of May of this year was about 70 percent, which is about 30 percent below the i...
BOB FARLEY Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ For every 10 access points in one mile, the accident rate goes up 10 percent.
JOE BLUBAUGH Asking others to decide if you are suitable for fixed or floating rate housing loan is useless. Reme...
ZENG HAN JUN Nationwide, one of 100 children are born with congenital heart disease and the mortality rate is up ...
CINDY WILLIAMS At that rate, it would take 30 years to get the college renovated. By that time, it would start all ...
NICKI HARRINGTON The year-over-year gain of 1.7 percent reinforces the sense that the current series of Fed rate hike...
JOHN LONSKI The March 2006 unemployment rate of 6 percent was the lowest rate recorded for Kentucky in 10 months...
CARLOS CRACRAFT During that six-year time period, prices for all medicines went up 16 percent, compared to an overal...
ALAN HOLMER Over the past 10 years we've experienced tremendous growth in respiratory sales, averaging close to ...
DENNIS COOK We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent th...
STEVE MILUNOVICH It is difficult for the woven exporters to meet the 30 percent value addition requirement due to sca...
ANNISUL HUQ
We are intending a very, very strong make over of our entire product line as the year goes on, ANDY GROVE Last year for wrestling, we'd get done at 6, 6:30. I'd be dead after that. I wouldn't even want to w...
JOE RIZZI
Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congress... CHRISTINA ROMER Even if the loan adjusts upward next year, the amount ARMs are allowed to rise is typically capped a...
FRANK NOTHAFT The lower that rate goes, the higher our valuation goes. The Legislature put a floor on it of 8.3 pe...
DON SIEBERT We've reached the point where employers need to start hiring again, but productivity growth will sta...
GUS FAUCHER The fact is an ARM that you took a year ago could easily adjust to 6.5 percent or 7 percent percent ...
GREG MCBRIDE Seventy percent of the donations came from the private sector, and 30 percent from the public sector...
DAN BOECHER
To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of ... SAUL ALINSKY In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has mo...
JESSE WELLER We've just closed another great year in online commerce. Consumers spent an average of $200 million ...
DAN HESS If the government decides on an increase of more than 30 %, the inflation rate would jump by two to ...
FAISAL BASRI If someone wants to leave at 3:30 (a.m.) to start fishing in the Gulf Stream at 6:30, they can do th...
AL TELLECHEA The economy is definitely making a transition. I think 1998 will be viewed as the year of soft landi...
BRUCE STEINBERG Our graduation rate is just under 60 percent -- the highest in 10 years. We're actually seeing treme...
FRANK DESTEFANO I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6,...
RANDY HOUSER According to our calculation, 30 percent is the maximum increase (if the economy is) to achieve 8.0 ...
BURHANUDDIN ABDULLAH There are some bugs from Netscape 4 that were fixed, but it seems they didn't test [Netscape 6] befo...
BOB CLARK
The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restle... SMEDLEY BUTLER Our solid 30 percent increase in year over year revenue growth was fueled by strong demand in the ma...
GARY E. HOLDREN Anytime rates go down, it's definitely good news for consumers, especially since rates are still muc...
ERIN BIEHL The graduation rate is up 11.7 percent this year. That being said, our graduation rate fluctuates wi...
DAVE WILMES The 'full employment' unemployment rate is about 5 percent, ... It's still the case that the unemplo...
GUS FAUCHER People may start buying before it (the mortgage rate) goes up any more.
BRENDA BINCZEWSKI [Granville had a 100 percent graduation rate for the 2003-2004 school year. Newark had 78.1, while a...
DAN MONTGOMERY The worldwide adoption rate of large-screen HDTV sets by consumers has increased significantly over ...
MICHELLE ABRAHAM
We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spo... BABA KALYANI Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN My hay production is down about 30 percent this year,
BRUCE WOOD I think this puts the odds of a rate increase at their June 29-30 meeting at about 50 percent.
DAVID KELLY For the third consecutive quarter, our year-over-year license revenue growth rate accelerated. We be...
ALFRED CHUANG Anytime you keep hearing the same thing over and over again, you start to believe it.
RICKY WILLIAMS The ECB delivered in December, and they're going to deliver another rate increase in March. My perso...
DAVID TAVADIAN The use of alternative fuel is good for the farmers, for consumers and for us.
BRUCE WINSLOW What we're anticipating is a soft landing nationally. The markets will be coming back to their long-...
MARK MILNER The sales of bottled water are increasing by 30 percent a year here.
LI DEQUAN the surprising sustainability of 30 percent-plus growth over the next 10 years.
TIM LUKE We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI It's a big threat. We're losing 6 percent of our students each year.
JEFF TIDYMAN The current fed fund rate of 4.50 percent seems to be serving as a floor for the 10-year yield.
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA The combined company will be stronger from a distribution and product standpoint. Nevertheless, we d...
DAVID LEWIS One could argue 2 percent is more appropriate. But that actually changes over time, it's not fixed. ...
ALLAN HUBBARD We can't return to the building anytime soon. So we have to have an alternative site. The question i...
CAROLYN DINEEN KING There is an intergenerational reoccurrence rate of 30% in incest.
G. PIROOZ SHOLEVAR We are expecting a 30 percent increase this year (in total sales).
HU YONG We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL The Mountain States region experienced growth significantly higher than the rest of the nation. The ...
ERNIE GOSS [Few people will argue that consumers haven't benefited from these changes.] Keep in mind that 20 ye...
ANTHONY HSIEH I had Sam on the bench to start tonight because I've been telling her for a year and half to look fo...
BECKY RAWLINGS The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON We're going to be able to deliver a lot of services that McAfee currently delivers themselves now. S...
JIM HINDY For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're...
GARY AKRIGHT
Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 3... BERNIE SANDERS There is a solid demand for long-term bonds with a 20- to 30-year maturity. Twenty-year yields aroun...
KOJI MORI There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same presc...
MICHAEL K. SIMPSON The latest PMI data point to a slight moderation in the pace of global manufacturing output, to a st...
DAVID HENSLEY We have the lowest average wage rate of any metropolitan area we compete with. This might sound good...
BOB ABBERGER An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.
JAMIE RAPPAPORT CLARK It's safe, easy, and accurate. The error rate of an e-filed return is less than 1 percent. The error...
JESSE WELLER
In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%. JOHN DELANEY She's asking for $30 million, which tells you something.
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