Whether it's fair or not, you can't bat an eyelash at the . . . threat of a bird flu pandemic and how that affects sales, and how that affects access to international markets and chicken prices as far as supplies.

Bird flu is like rubbing salt into the wounds. There have not been cancellations but there is a slowdown in bookings.

Our goal was that poultry would not get infected by bird flu and we were successful in this.

Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can be quite sure that the bird flu virus will remain in the wild bird population in Switzerland for years to come ? our guess is about five-20 years.

Certainly any changes in the Wal-Mart inventory system is going to have an impact on the sale of diapers and paper products.

An alluring woman
need not bat an eyelash
to hit a homer
and steal a man's heart.