Financially, it's not a bad quarter. The concern from a retail perspective is that top-line sales number. It's not where you want to be as an ongoing, viable retailer. ... Long-term, you don't want to be losing customers.

These were pretty decent numbers overall. There was some concern over the sales numbers, but revenue also was strong for the quarter. There doesn't appear to be any letdowns here.

From our perspective, the physician always makes that final decision, and the patient's well-being is always our primary concern.

We never find a comfort level when sales are down, but it's important to keep in perspective that as the calendar year progresses, industry moderation is expected. The sales environment is still very encouraging and we are committed to maintaining our market momentum, particularly with our core products.

Housing is still in the portfolio with NVR, ... When we started to buy NVR, the price-to-sales ratio was 0.59. Now it sells at 0.83. And I continue to think housing is going to do well into the future here.

Booming demand in the southern hemisphere, in India and Africa, drove global mobile phone sales.