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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,

Igor Ivanov

aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the activity of the international inspectors.

British Airways is going to have to focus more and more of its activity on the long-haul markets. And as such, the greater share of their overall profitability will be generated at the North Atlantic market.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

Believe it, or not, we had almost a day and a half that we were convinced that there was good strong potential of severe thunderstorm tornado activity for central Oklahoma.

Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stock prices. Any activity on the mergers and acquisition, buy-back or dividend fronts, mixed with good news out of energy or the Fed, would be a catalyst to bring the big institutions back into stock market.

Bicycling has become a popular activity in the state of North Carolina.

Everybody expects people to come back from vacation and the activity to start. The first day is a very lackluster day and people are just getting used to stuff.

Every student pays an activity fee of about $72 that was used to help pay off the bonds on the Culp Center and the Mini-Dome. Both of those buildings will be paid for this year. We will take the money that was used for that and pay for the renovation. The student fees will not be raised. They will stay the same.

Every state every year will have some number of cases -- maybe it will just be a handful of cases, but it will never really just fade away completely like St. Louis encephalitis does, ... Even in the inter-epidemic period, there will always be some West Nile activity somewhere in the country.

The number of on-demand providers is increasing, as is the level of M&A activity in the HR software space.

It's too early to pinpoint the specific locations and amount of rain, but we definitely see an increase in shower activity into Saturday. What will happen on land will depend on where the plumes of moisture form south of the island.

It's OK to say you aren't interested in seeing something. If it was some other activity you didn't want to do, we'd say the same thing. Why not apply it to media as well?

Mike Ferguson

It's obviously an enormous company with incredibly deep pockets, so having a foothold in the Treasure Valley probably opens up an opportunity for additional economic activity that would be connected with Microsoft.

It's obvious there's a lot of hand-to-mouth production going on, as businesses are still very wary about undertaking big projects or any sort of new activity for a variety of reasons, some intangible.

It's the kind of activity that only a developed and well-organized industrial nation can pull off.

Miguel Nicolelis

It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.

It's the one activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.

It's the first time I've heard of any activity coming from there.

It slows down for a little while and starts back up, ... We have noticed a decrease in activity in certain areas. They move to other areas.

It's a lot better to have some activity than no activity. So this puts us into a whole new category of viability.

Mark Zandi

It's always a bit difficult to read the economic data in the winter, just because activity is thinner, and the vagaries of weather are more pronounced. So it's not unusual to see, although this is an extraordinary amount of volatility.

It's always nice when you see increased seismic activity and you issue a warning that says you expect an eruption in the next hours to few days that what you predict is actually what happens. It gives us credibility and it sure makes us feel good when we called it right.

Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth,

Gathering strength is evident in several areas of the industry with growth in the housing sector the strongest in almost two years as buyer activity has improved.

German employers are saying they will begin to add employees again, albeit modestly, and hiring activity in Japan should be vigorous, beyond what we normally see in the second quarter -- their peak hiring season. Chinese employers say they will reduce their hiring activity compared to last year at this time, while U.S. employers expect to add to their payrolls at a continued steady pace.

Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

So much of what you see in the United States now was built when hurricane activity was low and there was a category 5 storm once every 30 years, not every year or two, ... Your investment decisions need to be revisited.

Despite signs nationally of a more normalized level of activity with regards to sales pace and price appreciation, our capital investments in these strategic markets afford us a significant competitive advantage and allow us to be well positioned for future success.

Any kind of ecological or human activity that requires snow or snow-free conditions are bound to be affected by that.

And then when they would focus their attention away they would see that the brain activity would go down.