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It was all on account of the goaltending. Both goalies played really well and both teams went hard, and it was a defensive, goaltending battle.

The service sector accounts for 37% of the jobs in the economy. 2.4 percent is the normal job growth, which amounts to about 100,000 jobs.

The sharp rally in the dollar is entirely justified by the unexpectedly good news for the U.S. current account financing equation. It certainly provides a considerable degree of comfort.

These deep discounts are made available because our wireless carrier partners pay us a customer commission to acquire new customers for them. If customers do not keep their monthly accounts in good standing for six months, then the carriers ask us to give back the full amount they paid us.

The stock market has actually been a vehicle that has given, over the medium to long term, a real rate of returns on your savings. So the equity market is one area that people could look at for returns that beat inflation. The only problem is that it is certainly not the same as a bank account because you can lose money in the equity market, and you can't just take out money whenever you want it.

The state of the current account should help Brazil go through a year of elections with not major difficulties or restraints.

The state has deposited its offer into the account at the courts. Basically, at this point, it's going through the appropriations process.

The situations have different issues. Here we're seeing a bending and stretching of the rules. Over there the rules are totally crushed. ...We have an accounting standards board and a fairly strict set of standards. Yes, we're seeing some problems. But by comparison they are nothing like the problems in Japan.

The situation is serious enough at this stage, especially when taking into account the number of security incidents in the past days.

These new reports about accounting gimmicks at Halliburton while Cheney was CEO only reinforce those concerns. It's no wonder people think this White House has trouble with the truth and lacks credibility.

The story of the current account deficit allowed traders and analysts to justify any currency prices. Sentiment got overly bearish on the dollar.

The successful growth of our 225 seat center in Manila and our future expansion plans increase the need for an on-site account management presence to ensure responsive account management and client satisfaction at all times. Jim Garwood will work in tandem with the Dublin, Ohio-based Client Services team to oversee client relationships from his base in Manila, a move designed to give our clients account management accessibility around the clock for sales and service programs run in Manila.

The study uses BMI, which does not distinguish between fat and muscle. Any study that is done without taking into account body fat percentage is misleading.

The spending of undocumented immigrants, as it ripples through the economy, accounts for a $5.4 billion dollars in the Chicago metro area annually.

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

The bottom line is that, when you start taking a look at the accounting differences, it comes down to we're about $117 million higher than Consumers and about two-thirds of that can be attributable to health care and pension benefits.

The bottom line is that a current account deficit of this unparalleled magnitude is unsustainable and there is no hope of it being resolved painlessly through higher exports alone. Instead it will require a big dollar depreciation alongside much weaker domestic demand for imports.

The CA investigation is an ongoing thing. They've had problems long before accounting scrutiny was fashionable, so the impact of that is muted. There is the sense that the market wants to shrug off the bad news.

The broad trend among banks is to service customers almost regardless of their credit standing. They do not want to turn a customer away, particularly if it's a customer with a checking account or another relationship.

The businesses that need to look at health savings accounts are those who are getting killed by health care costs. That's GM to Gene's Coffee Shop. It doesn't matter who you are. It's totally irrelevant the size or shape of your business, because everybody's getting hurt by this.

A wholly unrealistic mandate to compete against itself with an aging fleet, aging workforce and and ailing infrastructure make a public accounting of the Coastal Ferry Act a necessity.

A well-meaning grandparent or aunt or uncle or parent can get a child started on a very easy basis. Just put in $50 a month -- you don't even notice -- and over the years the account builds and compounds very nicely.

Australia's current account is still at an uncomfortable level. We haven't yet seen the big pickup in exports we need to generate a narrowing in the current account.

George Orwell

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Bank of America has now become a scale player in credit cards. The more accounts and balances you can spread over your essentially fixed-cost process system, the better the economics get.

Washington Irving

Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr

Thaksin Shinawatra

As of Sept. 30, the tax collection alone showed a surplus of 60 billion baht, even after taking into account the midyear supplementary spending,

As long as we have loose accounting and auditing in Canada, this is going to continue to be a problem,

As payments come in, I scan them from my computer desktop, select which accounts I want to credit, and view images of the checks in a matter of minutes. This product gives us more flexibility and more time to focus on our core business.

That tends to cause accounts receivables that they report to us every quarter to be understated.

That takes into account doing 30 minutes of exercise a day, ... The most important thing is the exercise. People who keep it off are people who exercise regularly.

John Alexander

That's just goofy. Making it easier for the accounting side shouldn't even be a consideration. They ought to be more concerned about students.

Christopher Ricks

That's not the same thing as saying that the latest account that he gives should be unmistakably taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I wouldn't say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time.