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Our operating efficiency ratio of 58.80% for the quarter is within our long-term efficiency goal of 58% to 60%, reflecting the success of our recent expansion efforts and the continued strength of our existing franchise. Jimmy Tallent
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Suddenly the already wealthy were reaping all the benefits. While other stories held our attention, that trend continued for 30 years.
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Steven has had a really good spring. From Day 1, even when we were out there in shorts, his demeanor was what you want in a football player. He has worked extremely hard and has continued to improve every week and every practice.
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Our prognosis for a continued and steady recovery is being realized and the outlook remains bright.
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Our placement on the list reflects the continued strength of our earnings over the past decade, and we have every intention of earning a spot on the Honor Roll for many years to come.
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Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.
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Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,
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Our results reflect the strong U.S. housing market and continued unsettled world markets for pulp, paper and packaging products.
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Our results in the quarter were good in the face of continued pressure on our margins and pricing, and an increasingly competitive environment in virtually all markets, John Reed
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Recent hurricane damage in the U.S. has impacted natural gas more than any other energy market.
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recent developments ... including violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants. Bill Richardson
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Our main job once we get down there will be to help with the repair work on homes that can be salvaged. Many homes were extensively damaged by flooding and by wind. We will be working on homes that are still standing.
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Station 4 had a one-minute response, ... That house would not have withstood five minutes of free burning. We would have lost the roof and the motor home, and had damage to neighboring houses.
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Some have been flattened, roofs have been taken off. The property damage has been immense.
damage ours
Ours was recovered, but there's so much damage to it.
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Our goal is to shut down as much of this illegal operation as quickly as possible to stem the serious financial damage to the victims of this high-tech piracy -- the people who labor to produce these copyrighted materials,
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Overall, the damage from the hurricane on the economy is limited, and by November and December we will start seeing the positive effect on production from rebuilding.
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Our wind speedometer broke. We had 100 mile-per-hour winds for four-plus hours with gusts up to 150 mph. I would characterize the damage as heavy, but not catastrophic.
debt goal harder serve
Our goal is to serve God, and it's harder to do that when you're in debt.
debt goal less level revenue
Our goal is to keep our debt level from rising. But as revenue rises, the debt will be less of a burden. Jeff Green
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Rising interest rates, rising debt and fewer good-paying jobs are making it harder for America's families to make ends meet, ... The president should use his Texas vacation to spend time overhauling his economic policies, not staging photo-ops. Howard Dean
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Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite. Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I think the worry for investors is that they can't see an end to this process. They see that the level of debt has risen and risen yet BT seems not to be doing anything about it.
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Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP (gross domestic product), Alan Greenspan
debt midst
In the midst of life we are in debt. Bill Vaughan
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I'm so glad I'm not paying off loans to the bank, ... If you get into debt, you can get creamed real fast.
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Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted. Sam Brownback
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Reflecting the improvement of economic fundamentals in Japan, inflows into Japanese assets, equities in particular, are likely to grow stronger.
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Recent trends in this index strongly suggest that the largely anticipated path towards economic recovery has in all likelihood already begun,
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Recently, when yields move down, the market has moved up. Investors are looking to the fact generally that economic growth worldwide is robust right now, so you're seeing a lot of these multinationals that participate in that doing quite well. Michael Malone
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Real new home sale prices and existing-home sale prices have been rising very sharply. When that starts to give way and we don't have the equity market picking up where housing left off, that's another reason the economic expansion will be gradual.
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President Arroyo has not only taken the barbs without flinching but has stuck to her economic plan with steadfastness.
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Part of the point here in GRE and economic development is a forever job ... it takes staying power and ... Michael helped to teach us that, quite frankly,
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Part of our mandate in Florida is to encourage economic development, and this would be an opportunity for some economic development and jobs.
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Our nation's wireless needs are too often governed by outdated regulations that hinder economic progress and innovation. Edward Zander
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Some investors are waiting for economic confirmation so they can purchase tech stocks, but by the time you get the confirmation, you've already missed out on most of the rally.
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People in government are not using that legitimate power of government to protect the environment. Bill Ritter
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Some people can put up with the pressure of being locked up in a maximum-security environment with a large number of prisoners, and some can't, ... You really don't know until you put them in that situation. I think his size will be a great help to him. Larry Campbell
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Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets. John Lynch
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Our focus and goal here is to provide a safer and more secure environment for our consumers, and restore some trust in the e-mail inbox. Charles Stiles
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Overall, the preannouncement environment is still positive but if this round of warnings continues, that's a red flag,
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Reruns is not located in a typical retail environment. People are expecting to see a lawyer's office, not a kids' shop, in that part of town. Michael Robinson
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Managing Linux in a mixed environment ... at Microsoft? A look inside the Linux/Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft.
environmental doe behavior
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? B. F. Skinner
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Well, as long as they're able to keep the pricing environment, ... If they can keep a moderate pricing environment in this competitive landscape that they're in, they can get that stock probably back up to 55, maybe even up to 60.
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Japan's big problem was that fiscal stimulus was not there. They haven't coordinated monetary policy with fiscal policy. That's what we're doing differently, and that's why we won't have the same problem.
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Koizumi is being seen as more of a reformist, which plays well with the urban voting blocs, ... But regional factional support seems to be with Hashimoto, and also there's an issue with him on the fiscal reform and debt-restructuring front.
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I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt. Jim Flaherty
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I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, which now confronts us over the next 15 to 20 years which, unless addressed, will not have a significant impact on long-term interest rates,
fiscal
I feel like that is up to the fiscal court,
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From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.
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From our standpoint, this is not a top fiscal issue.
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He's gained a lot of kudos in recent months, he's a fiscal consolidator -- which is what Japan needs. I understand he has growing support within the LDP.
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I don't think it's fiscally possible to do.
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Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.
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Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.
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Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.
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Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.
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Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.
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Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.
growth together preservation
A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart. Bill Crawford
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Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. C. S. Lewis
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.
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Our strategy to differentiate our offering has resulted in broad-based sales improvement.
improved last shooting
Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.
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Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.
improved
Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.
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We noticed too little improvement in my mind to justify the use of this treatment,
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I think the way she's playing right now is a testament to how much she'll improve the more she plays.
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I think there's a lot more room for improvement. I don't think you're ever going to be as perfect as you want to be, but we're striving to be that perfect team.
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I think there needs to be some style improvement but at the same time it has to be with in reasons. Kevin Garnett
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Being with my family is my highest priority. Bethenny Frankel
priorities
It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country. Tom Coburn
priorities vote
We need to put a price on carbon. This needs to be a priority for all of us in how we vote. Al Gore
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In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. Ed Pastor
priorities adequate care
Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us. Dave Reichert
priorities
She always had her priorities in the right place.
priorities needs done
You do the things that need to be done according to priority. Eleanor Roosevelt
priorities done excuse
Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities. Alan Cohen
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Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.
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Change is one thing, progress is another. Bertrand Russell
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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
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The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.
progress slow
I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady, John Bolton
progress track
I think things are on track and we're very enthusiastic about the progress we've made to date. We have just started a long journey. I don't think that everything is perfect.
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I think we're more satisfied with the progression, and the progress we've made through the season from where we started to where we are right now. It's a whole other season that's going to start right now. Ty Warren
progress team
I think we?re making the progress that we want to. It?s not perfect. But there are glimpses of the team we can be.
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I think we're making some progress but tonight we ran out of steam in the third period,
prolonged
Manufacturing is mired in a deep, prolonged recession.
prospects success
I think the prospects of success would have been diminished.
prospects short
There are not many prospects in the short term.
prospects
We have prospects now who can take all of the space.
prospects
In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014. Mark Rutte
prospects school
I didn't have very rosy prospects in school, Paul Sereno
prospects reached view
You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case. Richard Cobden
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Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.
rapidly until
One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull. Anna Akana
rapid rate
When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride. Adi Godrej
rapidly remedy
We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.
rapidly
I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.
rapidly strong
We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.
rapids consolidation marketplace
I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace. Conrad Burns
rapid
We see very rapid consolidation in this market.
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The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." () Scott McClellan
ratings rival
It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.
ratings
What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't. Ted Sarandos
ratings spend time
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't. Nancy Pelosi
ratings year
They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high. Regis Philbin
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In terms of TV and for the ratings that the show gets, it's ridiculous. Drew Lachey
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It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.
ratings
Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.
ratings
They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!
reforms
He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.
reforms structural voices
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.
security
It does give them a sense of security.
security social
He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security.
security side span within
If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet. George Tenet
security social touching
I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.
security
Security is a concern, ... It is a priority. Alberto Gonzales
security
We'd like to have one of them, yeah. You'd always like to have more security and more depth.
security worried wrong
We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.
security staff
We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.
security-guards sixteen asks
How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? Alice Cooper
stable
He is still under our observation. But he is still stable and still in hospital.
stable
Financially, we're more stable than we've been in many, many years.
stable
You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years. Mark Zuckerberg
stable
It's not critical. It's not serious. It's just stable at this time.
stable
It's been stable since. We've had no issues.
stable
When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre. John Heywood
supported
I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know. CeeLo Green
supported
He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.
supported united
There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
supported widely
is something that's widely supported in the region. Karen Hughes
top
That was our top relay. There's not much else I can say about that other than it was disappointing.
top
I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,
top
I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head. Dennis Thompson
top
He is one of the top sprinters in the state.
top
Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.
top tower
I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet. Carles Puyol
top
From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.
top
I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.
top underdog
Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.
widening worried
I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.