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If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).
RAINER GUNTERMANN The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent,
KAMAL SHARMA This was a pretty astonishing number for us. We knew that it would be a high volume, but this was an...
TIM CRANTON The numbers look okay. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecti...
STUART GORDON![]()
The food costs [were] higher than normal.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN Better performance fees than we were expecting have driven the earnings number sharply higher.
GEOFF MILLER The demand is higher at this point than people were expecting.
EVAN WILSON The GDP data was much higher than expected ... and with low volume we just end up following other ma...
ANDRE DREICON The volume was stronger than we were looking for.
ANN GURKIN We're expecting slightly stronger growth than in 2005.
BERND BOHR The story was more gracious than we were expecting after hearing all the interview hype. Everybody w...
DEAN STOYER The call volume has been higher and more steady than preceding some of the hurricanes we had last ye...
BRAD DEAN We expected higher research and development costs, but the revenues were also on the weak side.
HENRY SCOTT Behind this revenue range is an expectation that our unit sell-through will be slightly higher than ...
JUDY BRUNER We will include in the budget submission an estimated 70 billion dollars. The actual figure, when we...
JOEL KAPLAN The crop is coming out slightly higher than our earlier projection.
JAMES LEDESMA Results missed our estimate of $5.07, reflecting higher operating costs than we expected and lower t...
TINA VITAL We had set our targets higher for unit volume and average selling prices for our MP3 players than we...
CRAIG MCHUGH Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Pack...
HARRIS E. DELOACH We now believe The Knot can sustain higher long term revenue and cash flow growth rates than we had ...
WILLIAM MORRISON Quality was not as high as we would have hoped. Company operated margins were lower than we were exp...
LARRY MILLER For guidance it's not so bad. They are looking for low double-digit percentage growth in EBITDA. We ...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE One week later the people who were told he was a jerk remembered a higher bill -- from 10 percent to...
DAVID PIZARRO The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,
CHRIS LIDDELL He was a very dedicated, exceptionally knowledgeable analyst. He was not some dotcom kid.
ELI LUSTGARTEN Anything Deere can do to reduce its debt burden when the market is soft makes sense.
ELI LUSTGARTEN (Cummins) had higher revenue and slightly lower profitability for the quarter, but even so it's a ve...
ELI LUSTGARTEN You've got to give them credit. They're showing better levels of profitability on lower volumes.
ELI LUSTGARTEN The farm business is soft, and the construction and lawn and garden are carrying the company right n...
ELI LUSTGARTEN You're seeing a radically changed company, a radically improved company. There's recognition that Cu...
ELI LUSTGARTEN The conventional consensus is these factors will produce a weaker market for farm equipment in 2006....
ELI LUSTGARTEN The report is lousy but it is much better underneath.
ELI LUSTGARTEN It's one of the unloved. The company has a lot of different problems and it's difficult to say that ...
ELI LUSTGARTEN It was a good start, but we need to be quicker to the ball and be more active on the court. Our pass...
TIM DONOVAN I think it was what we were expecting. I don't think it was what students were expecting.
HEATHER HILLMAN Winning or losing by three points means one wrestler is slightly better than the other. I thought we...
AARON SARRA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES![]()
The costs of doing business in Southern California are much higher than the costs of doing business ...
CARLOS GHOSN![]()
The costs were greater than anticipated to the tune of, I would say, hundreds of millions, ... The s...
MICHAEL HAYDEN We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD But we need to see more volume before the market moves higher.
DAVID HARMAN In terms of production output costs, Thailand is approximately 20 percent higher and the Philippines...
MICHAEL AUSTIN I would expect (activity) to be significantly higher than last year, both in terms of volume and rev...
KALPANA DESAI Our 2005 financial results were very disappointing. We continued to face a stronger Canadian dollar,...
ARNOLD NEMIROW We can't compete on price because our rents are higher and we don't have the same volume.
LAURIE BAUER Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than th...
TOM MULLEN We are in for higher prices than we had through the 1990s.
KURT BARROW So far this year, fixed-rate mortgage rates have risen only slightly. Long-term mortgage rates are o...
FRANK NOTHAFT We have not authorized additional imports. We need to review whether we still need it. The crop is c...
JAMES LEDESMA He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. ...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN This summer's hurricanes served as a trigger point to start slightly slower economic growth. Higher ...
ED SULLIVAN We knew Kyle coming up was an athlete. He's been a solid player for us this year, and we were expect...
DAVE DETERS We were able to collect the fees necessary to cover the facility and other operational costs through...
DARREN LIBONATI Passing through Berlin we were right in the middle of an air raid. Bombs were exploding all around u...
JOHN BUTLER We were expecting it to be a closer game than what it was. But when you get in passing lanes like we...
DUSTIN BAINTER The story was more gracious than we were expecting after hearing all the interview hype. Obviously, ...
DEAN STOYER We had a fourth-down play, but I figured we had them back on their heels passing, passing, passing a...
JEFF PARKER We were focused against Shelton. We obviously came ready to play. I thought the key to the game was ...
BOB FAULKNER![]()
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l...
TEMPLE GRANDIN Both companies did much better than we were expecting ? they really beat estimates.
DHARMO SOEJANTO That shows what the papers know. Oak Forest was rated higher than we were. That shows we're underrat...
ERIK HANSEN We do have a lot higher expectations. When we were freshmen going in, we were just like so scared an...
COURTNEY WILSON They came in with a different game plan than what we were expecting and executed it like they were s...
DONALD WALKER The market opened higher, after some good economic numbers. However, we're seeing a pullback due par...
PETER CARDILLO This could be a little bit of conservativeness on Microsoft's part. Wall Street was already above th...
ALAN DAVIS It was pretty much what we were expecting, but the market was hoping for more.
GRANT WILLIAMSON![]()
Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine wher...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We were expecting this quarter to be weak and it actually came in a little softer than expected.
FLEUR GROSE We, the United Iraqi Alliance, were surprised by the results. We were expecting more seats. The oppo...
JAWAD AL-MALIKI I think we probably finished 2005 in slightly better shape than we were in 2004, but not much.
BILL EISER America was passing her by. New York City was passing her by. Bridges and billboards bearing smiling...
IMBOLO MBUE Over the long run, if costs of fuel stay high or go higher, then the higher costs will be reflected ...
FRED ADAMS It was a good result considering the environment of higher costs being faced by miners.
JASON TEH It's designed so we can improve our efficiency, and expand the volume moving through.
ERIC SMITH We have, in my opinion, the best quarterback in the country [ Eli Manning ], we have some great rece...
CHUCK DRIESBACH Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The t...
SANDRA NEIL WALLACE theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT Manufacturing costs in our Charlotte facility are higher than any other Continental tire plant world...
ALAN HIPPE Middle-class parents are paying more and people from lower incomes have slightly higher debts than t...
USHER Consumers traditionally barreled through and absorbed higher costs. But it's now no longer just thei...
MARSHAL COHEN From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.
JAY KIM They (results) were outstanding, very encouraging. It shows they are finally able to contain costs a...
BRIAN HICKS It's open to everybody - last year we had people who were just passing through Morrison and they sto...
DON MARSH Growth will slow slightly for a variety of factors. There's a challenging rate environment, a bit sl...
JOE MORFORD The data indicate that firms continue to struggle to pass higher costs through to consumers, with pr...
JOSEPH CAPURSO![]()
The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.
FIRAS ASKARI We were expecting more snow. I would rather deal with 19 inches of snow than this stuff.
BOB ZIFF The least degree of heat, as long as it is slightly higher than boiling water, suffices for uniting ...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER We must close underperforming, low-volume stores that are draining resources of the company. We will...
DAVE EDMONDSON The higher the price of oil goes, the higher your costs are, even with hedging.
KLAUS BREIL These studies demonstrate that there are vulnerable patient populations and potential additional cos...
M. WOLFE We were maybe passing a little too much and not finishing the plays, but we're starting to move arou...
MARKUS NASLUND![]()
...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not...
SHELLY CRANE It can be done very inexpensively. Our whole power pack in volume costs $4.50. The platinum alone in...
ROBERT LIFTON In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some...
ED ANDES The competitive advantages of the Heart Smart System give us the opportunity to capture significantl...
WALTER LAMBERT We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done.
DOUG ALLEN The answers to the questions of 1979-80 were very different than what we are expecting in the months...
BYRON CALLAN Pure guts. That's Eli. I mean, he's a Manning. He's an incredible player. To be hurting the way he w...
JARED LORENZEN
RAINER GUNTERMANN The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent,
KAMAL SHARMA This was a pretty astonishing number for us. We knew that it would be a high volume, but this was an...
TIM CRANTON The numbers look okay. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecti...
STUART GORDON
The food costs [were] higher than normal. WILLIAM GOLDMAN Better performance fees than we were expecting have driven the earnings number sharply higher.
GEOFF MILLER The demand is higher at this point than people were expecting.
EVAN WILSON The GDP data was much higher than expected ... and with low volume we just end up following other ma...
ANDRE DREICON The volume was stronger than we were looking for.
ANN GURKIN We're expecting slightly stronger growth than in 2005.
BERND BOHR The story was more gracious than we were expecting after hearing all the interview hype. Everybody w...
DEAN STOYER The call volume has been higher and more steady than preceding some of the hurricanes we had last ye...
BRAD DEAN We expected higher research and development costs, but the revenues were also on the weak side.
HENRY SCOTT Behind this revenue range is an expectation that our unit sell-through will be slightly higher than ...
JUDY BRUNER We will include in the budget submission an estimated 70 billion dollars. The actual figure, when we...
JOEL KAPLAN The crop is coming out slightly higher than our earlier projection.
JAMES LEDESMA Results missed our estimate of $5.07, reflecting higher operating costs than we expected and lower t...
TINA VITAL We had set our targets higher for unit volume and average selling prices for our MP3 players than we...
CRAIG MCHUGH Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Pack...
HARRIS E. DELOACH We now believe The Knot can sustain higher long term revenue and cash flow growth rates than we had ...
WILLIAM MORRISON Quality was not as high as we would have hoped. Company operated margins were lower than we were exp...
LARRY MILLER For guidance it's not so bad. They are looking for low double-digit percentage growth in EBITDA. We ...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE One week later the people who were told he was a jerk remembered a higher bill -- from 10 percent to...
DAVID PIZARRO The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,
CHRIS LIDDELL He was a very dedicated, exceptionally knowledgeable analyst. He was not some dotcom kid.
ELI LUSTGARTEN Anything Deere can do to reduce its debt burden when the market is soft makes sense.
ELI LUSTGARTEN (Cummins) had higher revenue and slightly lower profitability for the quarter, but even so it's a ve...
ELI LUSTGARTEN You've got to give them credit. They're showing better levels of profitability on lower volumes.
ELI LUSTGARTEN The farm business is soft, and the construction and lawn and garden are carrying the company right n...
ELI LUSTGARTEN You're seeing a radically changed company, a radically improved company. There's recognition that Cu...
ELI LUSTGARTEN The conventional consensus is these factors will produce a weaker market for farm equipment in 2006....
ELI LUSTGARTEN The report is lousy but it is much better underneath.
ELI LUSTGARTEN It's one of the unloved. The company has a lot of different problems and it's difficult to say that ...
ELI LUSTGARTEN It was a good start, but we need to be quicker to the ball and be more active on the court. Our pass...
TIM DONOVAN I think it was what we were expecting. I don't think it was what students were expecting.
HEATHER HILLMAN Winning or losing by three points means one wrestler is slightly better than the other. I thought we...
AARON SARRA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The costs of doing business in Southern California are much higher than the costs of doing business ... CARLOS GHOSN
The costs were greater than anticipated to the tune of, I would say, hundreds of millions, ... The s... MICHAEL HAYDEN We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD But we need to see more volume before the market moves higher.
DAVID HARMAN In terms of production output costs, Thailand is approximately 20 percent higher and the Philippines...
MICHAEL AUSTIN I would expect (activity) to be significantly higher than last year, both in terms of volume and rev...
KALPANA DESAI Our 2005 financial results were very disappointing. We continued to face a stronger Canadian dollar,...
ARNOLD NEMIROW We can't compete on price because our rents are higher and we don't have the same volume.
LAURIE BAUER Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than th...
TOM MULLEN We are in for higher prices than we had through the 1990s.
KURT BARROW So far this year, fixed-rate mortgage rates have risen only slightly. Long-term mortgage rates are o...
FRANK NOTHAFT We have not authorized additional imports. We need to review whether we still need it. The crop is c...
JAMES LEDESMA He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. ...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN This summer's hurricanes served as a trigger point to start slightly slower economic growth. Higher ...
ED SULLIVAN We knew Kyle coming up was an athlete. He's been a solid player for us this year, and we were expect...
DAVE DETERS We were able to collect the fees necessary to cover the facility and other operational costs through...
DARREN LIBONATI Passing through Berlin we were right in the middle of an air raid. Bombs were exploding all around u...
JOHN BUTLER We were expecting it to be a closer game than what it was. But when you get in passing lanes like we...
DUSTIN BAINTER The story was more gracious than we were expecting after hearing all the interview hype. Obviously, ...
DEAN STOYER We had a fourth-down play, but I figured we had them back on their heels passing, passing, passing a...
JEFF PARKER We were focused against Shelton. We obviously came ready to play. I thought the key to the game was ...
BOB FAULKNER
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform l... TEMPLE GRANDIN Both companies did much better than we were expecting ? they really beat estimates.
DHARMO SOEJANTO That shows what the papers know. Oak Forest was rated higher than we were. That shows we're underrat...
ERIK HANSEN We do have a lot higher expectations. When we were freshmen going in, we were just like so scared an...
COURTNEY WILSON They came in with a different game plan than what we were expecting and executed it like they were s...
DONALD WALKER The market opened higher, after some good economic numbers. However, we're seeing a pullback due par...
PETER CARDILLO This could be a little bit of conservativeness on Microsoft's part. Wall Street was already above th...
ALAN DAVIS It was pretty much what we were expecting, but the market was hoping for more.
GRANT WILLIAMSON
Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine wher... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We were expecting this quarter to be weak and it actually came in a little softer than expected.
FLEUR GROSE We, the United Iraqi Alliance, were surprised by the results. We were expecting more seats. The oppo...
JAWAD AL-MALIKI I think we probably finished 2005 in slightly better shape than we were in 2004, but not much.
BILL EISER America was passing her by. New York City was passing her by. Bridges and billboards bearing smiling...
IMBOLO MBUE Over the long run, if costs of fuel stay high or go higher, then the higher costs will be reflected ...
FRED ADAMS It was a good result considering the environment of higher costs being faced by miners.
JASON TEH It's designed so we can improve our efficiency, and expand the volume moving through.
ERIC SMITH We have, in my opinion, the best quarterback in the country [ Eli Manning ], we have some great rece...
CHUCK DRIESBACH Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The t...
SANDRA NEIL WALLACE theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT Manufacturing costs in our Charlotte facility are higher than any other Continental tire plant world...
ALAN HIPPE Middle-class parents are paying more and people from lower incomes have slightly higher debts than t...
USHER Consumers traditionally barreled through and absorbed higher costs. But it's now no longer just thei...
MARSHAL COHEN From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.
JAY KIM They (results) were outstanding, very encouraging. It shows they are finally able to contain costs a...
BRIAN HICKS It's open to everybody - last year we had people who were just passing through Morrison and they sto...
DON MARSH Growth will slow slightly for a variety of factors. There's a challenging rate environment, a bit sl...
JOE MORFORD The data indicate that firms continue to struggle to pass higher costs through to consumers, with pr...
JOSEPH CAPURSO
The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam... MATTHEW DESMOND Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.
FIRAS ASKARI We were expecting more snow. I would rather deal with 19 inches of snow than this stuff.
BOB ZIFF The least degree of heat, as long as it is slightly higher than boiling water, suffices for uniting ...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER We must close underperforming, low-volume stores that are draining resources of the company. We will...
DAVE EDMONDSON The higher the price of oil goes, the higher your costs are, even with hedging.
KLAUS BREIL These studies demonstrate that there are vulnerable patient populations and potential additional cos...
M. WOLFE We were maybe passing a little too much and not finishing the plays, but we're starting to move arou...
MARKUS NASLUND
...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not... SHELLY CRANE It can be done very inexpensively. Our whole power pack in volume costs $4.50. The platinum alone in...
ROBERT LIFTON In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some...
ED ANDES The competitive advantages of the Heart Smart System give us the opportunity to capture significantl...
WALTER LAMBERT We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done.
DOUG ALLEN The answers to the questions of 1979-80 were very different than what we are expecting in the months...
BYRON CALLAN Pure guts. That's Eli. I mean, he's a Manning. He's an incredible player. To be hurting the way he w...
JARED LORENZEN
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