In recruiting Helmut Hock to join Royal Group, we have been able to attract an executive with extensive senior management experience and a very successful record in all aspects of plastic injection molding and extrusion.

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Growing demand and growing markets and networks will tend to reduce costs and raise efficiency, making successful economic management all the more important,

The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With $3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than $1 billion per year.

Cliff has been an integral part of the management team at Group 1 since 1998. I would like to thank Cliff for his contributions and wish him well in his new endeavors.

I didn't hesitate. She was basically fighting me back. I couldn't really get a good grasp on her, so I threw her toward the bank.