While they have made impressive progress, we believe that the sales cycle can be as long as two years given the inertia inherent in many large marketing organizations.

The tone of the conference call was quite cautious. Coupled with a revised outlook on sales and marketing expenditures, it suggests that a re-acceleration of revenue growth will only come at the cost of earnings.

Kmart's sales for the month were on plan and we are pleased with our progress in a number of key businesses.

we have made enough progress over the past two days that the union is willing to continue working while bargaining goes on.

The second varsity made some progress with their new lineup changes. That boat had a good performance relative to the first varsity, only five seconds apart from the first.

Furthermore, eBay -- which has held up relatively well versus other leading Internet companies -- has little valuation support.