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BOB BURKE Fifty-four percent more companies are looking at this region today than 14 months ago,
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DR RACHEL WHITMER On a net, net, net basis, if you look at all the increases this year and look at after the sale, ......
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JEFF SILBER And the value of these unsold homes in the U.S. now exceeds (a) half-trillion dollars -- up 33 perce...
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ERIC ZAHREN One temporary agency was up 9 percent and one up about 17 percent. But I don?t know what companies w...
GUY TAUER When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only incr...
MARC VEASEY Who cared about a 2 percent yield when you were making 30 percent on your money.
CHUCK CARLSON They made 33 percent of their threes and we only hit 18 percent of ours. That was the difference.
MARTHA TODD I think it's still a hard target to get, but it looks definitively more possible now than when they ...
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ALEX SCOTT They get a job, they're fact-checking and doing grunt work. They are like, 'Wait a minute. I thought...
MICHAEL BALL The research team was surprised to find out more than 50 percent of four-year students were not in t...
STEPHANE BALDI If someone had said to us a year ago: 'Would you be happy with investment growth of 15 percent over ...
ANDREW STEER Orders will be only 30 to 40 percent of last year's (level), and we see them leveling out next year ...
ALAN MULALLY We were lucky to be as close as we were, for shooting 33 percent. We played hard, but we didn't play...
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BILL O'BRIEN I think St. Joseph is a much better team that they were in December. Their third and fourth swimmers...
MIKE SULLIVAN Forty percent are cured and 50 percent are significantly improved. The other 10 percent have issues ...
ANIELA ORR Three of the four regional projections are in line with the national Net Employment Outlook. Western...
LORI PROCHER We are 30 percent over what we were last year.
BRENDA RYANS So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER A net 17 percent of small employers plan to increase employment in the next three months, indicating...
WILLIAM DUNKELBERG What's interesting is the increase in the sales price of homes, 13 to 14 percent, based on our offic...
DAVE NASH They were the first ones, those types of companies, to warn a year ago when things hit Asia, so I th...
CHARLES HILL Job satisfaction levels have improved significantly compared to this time last year as employers ste...
MATT FERGUSON
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BEN RUDD
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AVINASH KANT Credit card companies are increasingly addicted to their fees. Six years ago, all fees - including l...
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FRANK BARKOCY Despite the paring back of the workforce, total employment expense per employee rose 8.1 percent yea...
JESSICA POTTS We think inflation in the middle of this year will be back below target. We are likely to see 5 perc...
DAVID BRICKMAN The cheerleaders talk about the economy growing, but the economy grew at 7 percent from 1966 to 1982...
JEFFREY SAUT We could generate $10 million or $15 million a week in just CD money. When we first started, they we...
COREY JOHNSON We graduate more than 95 percent of our nursing students. I am very proud of that. That is above ave...
DENISE JORDAN We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER The result of 23 percent was a good step, considering only three of the candidates offered to voters...
DIAA RASHWAN We are optimistic about our intention to win 90 percent of the non-subsidized fuel oil market.
ACHMAD FAISAL On the earnings front, it would seem that companies have fared a little worse than the market had ho...
ANGUS CAMPBELL
In a series of three studies, the offenders who claimed they were abused as a child were 67 percent,... ANNA C. SALTER Stockton continues to exhibit job growth well in excess of the state average, and unemployment is 1....
SEAN SNAITH When you start getting 10 percent cuts on top on 23 percent cuts, that's when the decision-making ge...
GLEN LEWINSKI We could easily reach 2 percent if we were to cut out our research and development area.
ALBERT STILL That's a 61 percent average and the national rate is 33 percent, so our release is much higher.
CATHIE DONOHOE The increases were just higher than we thought. As we did last year when we asked for budget increas...
BECKY COFFEY Just as companies are slow to recognize things are going to slow down, they're also slow to recogniz...
E. POTTER The problem with the study is that big-box retailers and online retailers are not within the area st...
HANK BARRY We're kind of optimistic actually. It's been a good year. This looks a little more positive than we ...
BILL TERRY We anticipate in having him. I'm just trying to be as accurate as possible (about the injury). We're...
JACK DEL RIO U.S. employers are still void of the business confidence needed to increase their employment project...
JEFFREY JOERRES By the end of last year, there were more than 200 million PCs connected to the Internet. Ninety perc...
CAREY NACHENBERG We felt they were 90 percent (effort) and we were hoping they would step it up that extra 10 percent...
GARY REYNOLDS Of the 36,000 that were served by the food bank last year, food insecure was about 87 percent.
DEBRA ALICH One of the threats to PC companies is how the demographics and behaviors of users are changing, ... ...
ERIC SCHMITT By and large, the average salary increases employers offered to new college graduates were respectab...
MARILYN MACKES For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compar...
PAUL CURLANDER We were prepared for a more difficult ride than we wound up with. An S&P 500 of 3 percent is not ter...
DORSEY FARR We're looking at another 25 percent (cut) next year.
DAN WOLFE Small businesses are the backbone of America's economy, representing more than 99 percent of all emp...
GIOVANNI CORATOLO Tom wanted the ability to give 3 percent raises on their (employment) anniversary dates. This gives ...
JACKIE SOBAS We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most o...
ERIC AUSTVOLD We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most o...
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BARRY VENABLE As far as we are concerned all operators are back to normal, more than 90 percent.
MBELA PHETLE Despite the gradual rise in mortgage rates over the last two months, housing starts were actually up...
FRANK NOTHAFT The chances of Japan going into another recession are more than 50 percent within this year.
DAVID SATTERWHITE He is in high spirits. Obviously he sounded a lot more optimistic than when I saw him in prison a ye...
DAN MCTEAGUE
According to Babette, 98.3 percent of lawyers end up in Hell. That's in contrast to the 23 percent o... CHUCK PALAHNIUK There was about 20 to 25 percent more business than usual. We love it. Bring it back.
DAWNE MASSEY ICD sales were up 30 percent, so they gained about a point of market share from Guidant,
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DR. KIRK OHANIAN With 2001 revenue growth rates now expected to be in a range of 9 to 18 percent and earnings per sha...
MARK ROWEN If you look at our portfolio that we run here with a three-year track record, basically it's equal t...
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. 
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h... 
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. 
Justice is the truth in action. 
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. 
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives. 
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th... 
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he... 
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N... 
People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it. 
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g... 
Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind. 
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t... 
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed... 
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo... 
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... 
I don't have to have faith, I have experience. 
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But th... 
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. 
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i... 
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. 
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for t... 
Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beauti... 
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. ... 
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon ... 
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumph... 
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imag... 
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of vi... 
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to produc... 
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ... 
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê. 
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his gove... 
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. 
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n... 
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki... 
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. 
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. 
I remember on one of my many visits with 
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. 
It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. 
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions a... 
We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark... 
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to... 
We always plan too much and always think too little. 
Perfection is the child of time. 
Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ... 
Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ... 
He is great enough that is his own master. 
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ... 
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. 
All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream... 
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his ow... 