Our earnings growth is especially gratifying in this seasonally low-revenue quarter, when we continue to incur fixed infrastructure costs including acquisition carrying costs.

We expected a difficult comparison this year, and this has been compounded by the significant reduction in inventories and increased seasonality of purchasing patterns at Toys 'R' Us.

Wizards of the Coast will enable us to significantly expand in the fast-growing games arena, which is a cornerstone of our growth strategy for the new millennium.

Growth was a little stronger than the previous year ... what we are seeing is strong and consistent growth.

For 2001, we expect [Japanese] growth of marginally less than 1 percent.

We're glad that our bond package provides for growth, ... We certainly are going to need to build east elementary, and the enrollment figures reinforce that.