The stores we are closing are located in markets that do not come close to reaching this bottom-line housing-start benchmark.

We're looking at framing companies, plumbing companies, but not around here.

The OfficeMax store located in Kingsport, Tenn., is on the list of 110 OfficeMax stores to close in the first quarter of 2006.

The bottom line is housing is not plunging and it's not soaring, ... There are signs that housing is peaking, but there is no evidence that housing is weakening sharply.

People think we are rolling around in money. We're a privately held company. We don't have a lot of money laying around. To spend $100 million when we're trying to expand [the company], it didn't make sense to me.

Wouldn't it be phenomenal if she made the cut here?