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Margaret Spellings

The result does show us we need to accelerate progress at all grade levels, with all kids, if we are to meet those goals,

A lot of it depends on their age and the family circumstance and what role that person has to play in the family, but it can accelerate issues and concerns regarding estate planning. The cost of medical care is still a consideration, and there's uncertainty with regard to employment.

Skip Bertman

Although the cost of running the athletics program increases each year, we didn't plan to raise prices this season. Unfortunately, the impact of the recent hurricanes has forced us to accelerate the need to make these price increases now.

Although real consumer spending was strong it has slowed for two consecutive quarters and finished Q1 with very little momentum. In order to sustain recent strength in real consumer spending, job creation will need to accelerate further.

The Unix server business is more of a wild card. They're either going to have to gain some market share or accelerate their efforts on the services and software side. But the markets they're going after certainly support that kind of growth.

Brad Smith

This does give us the capacity, obviously, to continue growing, and even to some degree to accelerate growth over the next three years.

Rob Conway

This development brings the advantages and pervasiveness of the GSM platform to the notebook market, where this year sales of more than 60 million laptops are forecast worldwide. As 3G network roll-outs accelerate across the world, with additional media rich capabilities added through HSDPA upgrades, laptops with in-built connectivity to the 3GSM world will enable PC users to enjoy the full benefits of seamless access to mobile broadband wireless services with secure authentication.

This completion represents a significant milestone in our drilling efforts in the expansion area of the Barnett Shale formation. We are anxious to complete the well cleanup process and report the initial production rate of the well. We will continue our efforts to accelerate the completion schedule of our five other wells during the next several months.

This aggressive move by Sprint should further accelerate the company's momentum in wireless broadband services. Enterprises and consumers alike have an insatiable appetite for network access availability, speed and quality. This is an important move by a company who is very serious about raising the industry bar and meeting the important and dynamic requirements of its business and consumer constituencies.

It really helps accelerate the decision-making process and the building process.

Pat Buchanan

It is time to say 'yes' to Europe, time to let go, as doting parents whose children have reached maturity must let go. Indeed, let us accelerate the day of Europe's reclaiming its full independence by setting a date certain for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops.

This plan does not take away one's native language. It does not take away one's heritage or culture. It is designed to accelerate that child's English proficiency.

You really can't put a railroad in play in an traditional sense. But he could be trying to prompt other changes. There are two attractive pieces of Sea-Land left. This could accelerate their interest in selling that.

This is another step AT&T is taking to accelerate the Internet's evolution from an information resource to a powerful form of multimedia communications.

EPA's proposal would create incentive to accelerate environmental protection and improve public health while maintaining competitiveness for small businesses by setting a very high environmental bar. That is, if they significantly reduce pollution going into the environment from their facilities, they can reduce red tape and paperwork by using a more streamlined reporting form.

The results of this study, ... indicate that achieving fusion in the cervical spine significantly improves pain scores. Thus, efforts to accelerate the fusion process, such as PEMF, have a demonstrable impact on patient care.

As Starbucks continues to accelerate its international expansion, we must perpetually build stronger infrastructures that will allow us to meet the Company's strategic growth objectives. Cliff's and Julio's past successes, extensive experience, knowledge of the business and Starbucks culture, as well as Phil's credentials in the restaurant and retail industries, are strong indicators that these leaders will provide the foundation we need in the region to reach our long-term goal while continuing to deliver our legendary service and the Starbucks Experience to our customers.

Consumers' upbeat mood about current business and labor conditions underscores the economy's continuing recovery, but the latest retreat in expectations suggest that the pace of economic growth will not accelerate in the months ahead,

Jeff Bezos

Competition will accelerate in 1999. We still believe it is impossible to keep the pronounced bookselling market share lead over the long term.

Jeff Bezos

Competition will accelerate in 1999, ... We still believe it is impossible to keep the pronounced bookselling market share lead over the long term.

Cultivating mushrooms is a great way to accelerate the decay of the stump.

We are going to be pursuing legal remedies in every form we can to accelerate the appellate process.

Brian and David are both extremely talented individuals with a keen sense for emerging market opportunities, and broad-based experience in capitalizing on them. We look forward to tapping into their industry expertise as we further accelerate the development of market-leading products and execute on our go-to-market strategy.

We've had more ups than downs. But more than anything else, I think we've had so many learning opportunities that I think now it's going to cause us to accelerate our growth process. Probably the most important thing is we've grown mentally.

The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.

The ROI can really accelerate rapidly when you save someone from burning up a $30,000 scope.

(These changes) will help attract real investments to Turkey and accelerate direct global capital investment.

John Ray

These settlements represent the latest in a series of achievements aimed at resolving significant claims in Enron's bankruptcy proceedings. We are pleased that these settlements enable us to collect additional value for the creditors, and, at the same time, resolve claims against the estate so that we can accelerate distributions to all creditors.

Mark Zandi

The risks are clearly that inflation will accelerate further because of energy.

The risk is for the ECB to accelerate the pace of interest- rate hikes. There seems to be very little support for the European bond market.

We felt that a royalty-free software approach was the best way to enable the supplier community and accelerate availability of EDA. ISMI also will be able to offer some level of support for ECCE users.

We expect this trend to continue and to accelerate in 2006 and 2007.

We expect the company to put its $14.5 billion of net cash to work in pursuing acquisitions to accelerate growth. That said, we would not be surprised to see the shares trade sideways until a significant acquisition is announced.