The Bay Area's most heavily represented industries here are in management of companies and enterprises, professional and technical services like scientists, engineers and high-tech folks and in the information field like Web portals. We have more of those jobs here, and they tend to be higher-paying jobs.

We have already softened our stand and asked the management to bring down the pension benefit to the general manager level from our earlier demand up to the deputy managing director level.

A lot of people mistakenly think that we're saying that the price of a house rose 3.9 percent, which is not true.

Out of the 27 metropolitan areas that we keep information on, San Diego had the eighth-highest rise in prices.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

I didn't think it was that bad when I was playing in the playoffs or working out this summer. But it was getting worse and worse (at camp two-a-days last week). I'm glad we took care of it early in my career. I'm going to come back 110 percent. I won't have the pain anymore. I will have the same aggressiveness and have even more explosiveness.