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When both exports and imports are surging, that is generally a sign that the economy is in very good shape. These figures strike me as yet another sign that activity entering 2006 was on a solid footing, not about to slow down substantially, as the consensus believes.

We're thrilled with this sales velocity and expect all of the activity around the Oscars to further boost sales and awareness this week and well into next. But truly, it speaks volumes to the strength of the film and consumers' continued love affair with the DVD format.

We thought housing would be falling away as business activity picked up. But what you have now is the two overlapping.

We think we can continue to have a successful skywalk system and restore activity to the street.

David Rosenberg

We think that countries and areas of activity that have been weakest in the last couple of years are likely to see the strongest rebound in growth. Thus, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands should see more marked recoveries than Spain and France, where activity has held up well.

We think this company more than most would be leveraged to an improvement in market conditions and lower rates. Market activity comes back this company has a lot of operating leverage and it should show through on the bottom line.

Michael Penn

We think the risks are that activity will pick up rather more slowly than the bank expects. In this environment risks to rates are lying on the downside in our view, and we continue to expect a 25 basis point rate cut in May.

We've been seeing very strong activity in international markets, which should continue, driven by global economic growth.

We've been seeing improvement in the non-manufacturing side since late last year. We're seeing more activity in the travel sector and others that were hit really hard last year after the terror attacks.

Scott Anderson

We've been relying on the housing activity for our economic growth.

We consider that any normalization of relations with Israel in this period would be an encouragement for Israel to continue its settlement activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

We condemn punishment of any activity internationally recognized as free expression whether that punishment takes place in China or anywhere else in the world.

We closely monitored the evolving market and made every effort to participate in a way that was fair and legal, ... Williams does not have and it never has had strategies to engage in illegal or improper market behavior. In fact, Williams prohibited its traders from selling power outside California for resale into California for the purpose of evading the state's price caps even though we did not conclude that the activity was illegal.

We don't want to criminalize consensual sexual activity ... among young people.

We have been able to objectively stand back and measure activity in the pre-term infant brain in response to a noxious or painful stimulus. That's never been done before. Anyone working with pre-term babies would feel intuitively that they're likely to feel pain - but before now we didn't know.

When I was home I more or less had a routine with my cat. Those are the things now that I have a routine of doing before coming down to the activity room to see Sophie.

We would not be surprised to see more eruptive activity in the near future.

Adam Cole

We would expect the Fed to say something about Katrina and what it means for the immediate and long-term impact on activity and I think there's a lot of uncertainty about what they may say.

We are seeing the effects of reduced capital spending by service providers and other communications market end customers impact our customers' business and hence their purchases. The slowdown in end market activity is prolonging the inventory correction, but we believe that moderate sequential revenue growth will resume in the second half.

Ariel Sharon

We attach vast importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't intend to allow Egypt to become a mediator between Israelis and Palestinians,

We believe it is unlikely that Citigroup knowingly participated in fraudulent activity related to Enron, and history suggests bank stocks bounce highly after a market crisis.

TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

To think that these folks have multimillion-dollar budgets - what do they do with them? I ask my grad students, 'Can you name any activity you've been involved in or you know about that the King Center does?' And they can't.

John Updike

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Abhishek Bachchan

I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

The program is designed to attract kids and get them off the street. When children are involved in any organized activity for more than three hours a week, the risk goes down.

Alex Johnson

We often see an increase in criminal and fraudulent activity of all kinds during the holiday season. People usually feel more generous during the holidays, and they're in the spending mode. Criminals take advantage of this.

We obviously track the mortgage activity and understand that overall share, but we don't focus on how many homes are being purchased by investors without a mortgage. That could be a more interesting part of the housing picture.

We obviously can?t prove or disprove, but it?s unlikely. That level of activity would not go unnoticed.

We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process.

While some of our competition is narrowing its focus to just e-mail capabilities, IBM continues to expand and evolve Lotus Notes and Domino to deliver the extended business value of a true collaborative platform. Over the last 20 years, IBM Lotus has defined this industry and has been at the forefront of collaborative innovation. With a broad new set of programs, platform support and Business Partner activity to support the Lotus Notes and Domino platform, we're continuing to meet the growing needs of our customers and are well positioned to maintain our leadership role into the future.

While our clients' trading activity had increased in early September ? daily average revenue trades were 136,000 for the first five trading days of the month ? last week's terrorist attacks and their aftermath have added fresh uncertainty to the market environment,

When markets reopened Schwab saw good activity and volatility for the last half of September. It was better than expected.