We wanted a sense of how much expansion was going on out of the dense areas that had been hard hit by eradication. We felt it would be good to cast a wider eye.

We want the tribal sense of belonging, ... We get it through products we share.

In a lot of residential areas, roads are impassable, ... There are just so many thousands of trees down. It's hard to even describe, it's so immense.

[To allow such a dense development] on what is really the boundary of a neighborhood to me is a hard decision, ... It's going to take very close scrutiny by me and I'm sure by the other commissioners. This is one giant step.

From a competitive standpoint, probably the most sensitive issues are in the Boston and Massachusetts areas, ... There's going to be some risk to Fleet's dominance there, but I'm not really concerned.

While we have said all along that the foundation for the U.S. expansion is dodgy, as long as it is what it is, we expect to see the dollar and Treasury yields - and fed funds - move up.