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.

It was always going to be touch and go whether they made double digit growth...It's quite a psychological blow in the short term.

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

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.

All signals are that European growth is slowing, however, the euro zone will avoid a hard landing, compared with the U.S., which has a lot of structural imbalances brought on by a boom cycle.