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These actions send a clear signal that we are not content to simply wait for the economy to improve in order to make our businesses more profitable,

These actions reflect our confidence in the future operating results and cash flow of the company, as well as our ongoing determination to build long-term shareholder value.

Ernest Hollings

These actions not only raise question about possible conflicts of interests, but clearly were inappropriate given the ramifications of the agreement regarding antitrust enforcement policy,

These actions enable Agilent to focus exclusively on realizing its full potential as the world's premier measurement company. It has become increasingly clear that investors also prefer this exclusive focus on the $40 billion measurement market.

These actions demonstrate that the junta's so-called 'roadmap to disciplined democracy' is neither credible nor inclusive.

These actions call into question Kenya's commitment to press freedom.

These actions by the government in Nepal are counter-productive.

These actions are necessary for GM to get its costs in line with our major global competitors,

These actions are necessary for G.M. to get its costs in line with our major global competitors.

These actions are intended to locate regime leaders and also to search former regime facilities,

These actions are in addition to ongoing initiatives to improve productivity and reduce costs.

These actions are further evidence of Aetna's long-standing commitment to being a corporate governance leader, ... Many shareholders in corporate America want more say when it comes to electing directors at companies. Our board studied other alternatives, including cumulative voting, and decided that implementing a majority vote standard for director elections most effectively responds to shareholder needs and strengthens our board's accountability to our shareholders. We also believe that the package of enhancements adopted today is consistent with corporate governance best practices.

These actions are financially motivated and aim to exploit the popularity of these search engines to increase visits to the pages with the altered results, ... To avoid this kind of attack, it is vital that users have reliable antivirus protection and keep their systems up-to-date, as the vulnerabilities used have often been in existence for some time.

The scope of this almost whimsical action by the commission is unbelievable.

The school had several opportunities to prevent this situation. They could have called the police to report the theft, they could have let the two young women check their vehicles to confirm they did not leave the items in them and they could have called parents to inform them of the thefts and any action they were considering. The administration did none of those things, instead choosing to humiliate and violate 20 teenagers by conducting intrusive illegal searches.

The scholar should, therefore always perform good actions and deeds.

The scariest part (of these past few weeks) is that usually you can rely on there being a hit every week of the summer or at least every week in July. The biggest concern in the industry is two out of four weeks in our best month, there were no major openings. Clearly 'Stealth' did share a lot of the same problems that 'The Island' did. It just seemed that both were typical summer action fare that did not seem to resonate at all.

The same thrilling action you got with the Time Crisis series at the arcade is now available on your phone and on the go. Namco Networks is dedicated to making sure our mobile games are faithful to the original console and arcade versions. We believe fans will agree that Time Crisis Mobile maintains the potent pace and excitement of the arcade original.

Marat Safin

I've slightly changed my action and movement and tonight it really worked well for me.

Paul Otellini

I've read your reports. I want you to know that we are well aware of the realities of our current and future business. We are taking actions to address those realities.

I've often toyed with what Jesus, Moses or Buddha would look like today. I think a 7-year-old handicap little girl seems ideal. I didn't want her to be an action hero, I wanted the opposite - for her to have more power than all of them put together.

It would be a grave mistake to go forward with this vote while our nation is engaged in military action, ... I cannot even believe we are having this debate.

It was the normal consolidation today (Wednesday) after two days of really good market action, but there's just no follow through. We rallied on a few pieces of news, but there's no sense of a broader recovery.

It was the public who thought of the idea. It wasn't a board-initiated action at all.

Larry Miller

It was very clear these people live with very real fear of emotional and physical harm, even now. Learning that they live in that world, that causes me to rethink and be more sensitive to some of the actions I do may have unintended consequences.

It was a catalyst to further action both in support of the freedom of same-sex couples to marry and in opposition to that.

It was a case of the panic being overdone, ... U.S. institutional investors were going to sell their European assets, but the coordinated action removed the fear about a weaker euro.

Theo Epstein

These concepts of vision and togetherness are only words if we don't live up to them. We understand that our actions are much more meaningful than our words.

These changes are sure signs that Ford is on offense and fighting back. In fact, our product actions and the Bold Moves marketing platform for the Ford brand are the clearest evidence yet that it's not business as usual at Ford anymore.

These settlement agreements represent an equitable conclusion to one of the significant private civil litigation issues arising from actions and events that took place at the company prior to 2003.

The service remains interested in the population status, trends and ongoing management actions important to the conservation of the Gunnison's prairie dog, and we encourage interested parties to continue to gather data that will assist in these conservation efforts.

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Paul Allaire

These results are obviously disappointing and completely unacceptable. Clearly, actions beyond resolving our operational issues are required, including major cost reductions, asset dispositions and a review of the dividend level. Aggressive actions to improve profitability in 2001 are being pursued.