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The slight depreciation of the rand during March seems to have impacted positively on both the export performance of manufacturers as well as the degree of import competition. This is a positive development. However, compared to other sectors of the South African economy (excluding mining), where both activity and confidence are at high levels, the manufacturing sector is clearly still under pressure.

The speculative activity in short-term calls might reflect the recent talk about an alliance with Microsoft.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Anyone who says this was about the technology has missed the point of the case and the judgment. If you set up a business deliberately to harvest and facilitate infringing activity it doesn't matter what technology you use. This is solely about the misuse of technology.

The bottom line message is that the labor market activity remains robust, and that's not the environment that would suggest a need for a Fed rate cut.

A very likely scenario is this kind of activity over the next several days or weeks.

Robert Higgs

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.

Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.

That's where we're seeing a lot of increased activity now.

That smuggling activity exposes a vulnerability in our border security, and that is a vulnerability we will address.

All available indicators of retail activity are moving in the direction of improving household spending.

All around the world the stress levels of business leaders shot up last year, whether economic activity in their country was picking up or slowing down. Thailand was no exception, with business leaders increasing their stress levels to find opportunities in the current economic climate and also worrying about future political and environmental factors.

James Foley

All American citizens should remain alert to any suspicious activity and take precautionary steps to reduce the profile and vulnerability of any U.S. facilities,

Eric Roberts

We've got a lot of companies queuing up for September. People are excited about the activity in first quarter and they're trying to get their deals done.

We have activity swirling all around. And the concept of running a terrorist cell whose goals are to murder Americans and having all these people around ... just doesn't make sense.

We have a crisis in poor nutrition and physical activity in this country. It's simple math: we are eating more and exercising less. And it's time we deal with it in a much more systematic and realistic way.

Greg Walden

This welcome announcement couldn't come too soon for all of Umatilla County, and our state in general. As we saw during the March fourth town hall on methamphetamine I hosted in Pendleton, Umatilla County has been put through the ringer in terms of drug manufacturing and trafficking, and this wave of activity crashes well beyond the County's borders. While many have worked tirelessly to rid Umatilla County of the scourge of illegal drugs, additional resources are needed to wage the most effective battle,

Those pictures were pictures of criminal acts that took place many years ago, rogue soldiers doing activity that wasn't supported by their chain of command.

This type of illegal activity is a real concern and keeps our investigative units busy. It is a problem on the regional and national level.

What parents should do, ... is change the types of food they keep in the house and give (children) more opportunities for physical activity so children can eat as much as they want and play how they want.

What is new is that this has become a formalized and organized activity such that the use of the information to force improvements is now a requirement that must be documented.

What I would conclude is that we are backing away from the robust levels of housing activity we saw in the spring and summer of last year, but there is by no means a swoon going on in housing activity just yet.

Jalal Talabani

We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we haven't enough government forces.

Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However, compared to historical activity levels, the amount of space completed this year has been somewhat modest, but we expect the pace to quicken during the second half of this year.

The workers are going to be more concerned than anyone else if there is informal activity taking place.

I've never studied it out, but it's not hard to realize that more numerous tornadoes seem to occur in that stretch. There's a history of intense tornado activity through that area.

Mary Meeker

I've never seen this kind of activity from these kinds of companies.

to include some physical activity (e.g. all cashiers do some cart gathering.)

Fred Thompson

You have a lot of troubling questions ... You have some significant policy matters being determined in the midst of some very questionable activity involving a foreign government -- involving the very government that he is planning on visiting. So I don't think it's bad to stop and reassess that at this point,

With inflation pressures continuing to build and the magnitude of the moderation in economic activity continuing to be questioned, we suspect the Reserve Bank's patience has run out.

With imports now more than one third higher than exports, it will take a sharp reversal in these growth rates for the trade shortfall to narrow on a sustained basis. Although the U.S. economy is slowing and international economic activity is accelerating, it is unlikely that the trade deficit will narrow anytime soon.

There's inflation activity in the system, there's cost and wage pressures in the system, and we need to see that abate before we're prepared to see interest rates come off.

There's going to be a lot of activity out there this summer.