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After an incredibly warm January, February's chillier temperatures only managed to cool housing activity modestly.

After a few failures in the struggle with terrorists, public opinion has been very critical of the lack of systematic activity between government agencies. This is an attempt to answer these complaints.

Strictly private activity is not regulated under critical habitat.

Some expected these bees to be a major threat to agriculture and life in the Southwest. Others expected an initial surge of activity and then the problem would somehow go away. The truth in New Mexico is somewhere in between.

Speculative activity will continue to dominate price movements, with fund interest based on justifications such as economic slowdown, inflationary concerns and hopes of Asian central bank buying and soaring physical demand.

Now more than ever, we know that food impacts health and consumers want to put this advice into practice. But we need to remember that it is not one component or one food that reduces the risk of disease or makes a person lose or gain weight. It's the totality of the diet -- balanced food choices and portion sizes combined with physical activity -- that has the greatest benefit to health.

Sathya Baba

Activity must be dedicated to God, the Highest Good. Then, it will provide health to body and mind.

Activity levels remain solid, indicating continued high demand for services. The outlook for early 2006 looks positive.

Activity levels held up quite strongly over the final weeks of 2005 compared to previous years. The scale of new buyer registrations over the next few weeks will be an important indication of what sort of year we can expect for the market.

Activity levels are probably higher than I've seen in my 25 years at Goldman Sachs. Client activity is very, very high. CEO confidence is quite high. You see lots of merger activity going on.

Activity is very light ahead of Greenspan's testimony tomorrow. We really shouldn't see much movement . . . there is no prominent economic data out today.

Activity is very light ahead of Greenspan's testimony tomorrow, ... We really shouldn't see much movement . . . there is no prominent economic data out today.

Activity is up. We have five classes now.

Activity is going to slow down, we're going to ration energy. How much of an effect that's going to have on gross domestic product, no one knows.

Activity is benefiting from August's interest rate cut, increasing confidence in the housing market and still rising employment. This is likely to put a floor under house prices.

Activity in the manufacturing sector picked up early in the second quarter, in line with strong underlying fundamentals in the economy and stronger overseas demand. We can look forward to solid overall output growth in the second quarter of 2006.

Bill Stewart

Activity increases in all reporting segments and price improvements have contributed to the company's record earnings performance.

Andrew Gould

Activity increases and strong pricing momentum, particularly in North America, drove first-quarter results despite the severe curtailment of activity in Russia early in the year.

Activity has now contracted for two consecutive months, albeit mildly. As noted in the January release, the sustained strength of the rand exchange rate probably explains much of the pressure on manufacturing.

The Monster Employment Index has shown strong, steady, upward growth throughout most of 2005, with a noteworthy growth trend over the past four months, ending in an expected seasonal dip in December. The past month's decline indicates the slowdown in online hiring registered in December of 2003 and 2004, as employers typically wrap up their seasonal hiring activity and await approval on 2006 budgets. Despite this anticipated seasonal slowdown, almost all industries, occupations, regions and states show much higher levels of online job availability than a year ago, demonstrating solid growth over the course of 2005. This certainly bodes well for job seekers as we enter 2006.

Demand remains incredibly robust. Housing activity in the rest of the country was very robust, and the destruction in the Gulf states just wasn't enough to move the needle downward.

Declines in the real estate activity will probably spill over into consumer confidence and eventually lead to slower spending.

David Haas

Deals like this allow both sides to focus on their core strengths, while having a more diversified presence through each other's products and offerings. I fully expect more activity in deals like this as we roll through the business cycle.

Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.

Despite the improved revenue outlook, market conditions remain broadly unchanged as significant promotional activity is required to maintain seat factors.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the disruptions of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, economic activity appears to be expanding at a reasonably good pace as we head into 2006.

They're not getting a good crisp message of what sexual activity really is and what the benefits of waiting for sexual activity until marriage are.

There's been a sense of complacency in the market all week. It's very difficult to read too much into this week's activity given the condition we're in right now. The morning's unemployment number wasn't encouraging. It shows the economic recovery is not very strong.

There's been a lot of download activity from what's known as the early adopters,

There's been a lot of activity in restaurants and stores on fears there will be damage to their operations.

There's been a lot of activity as of late.

There just seems to be a new deal every day. M&A activity is driving the market.

There is unprecedented flow of funds ... so what does one do than keep buying. There's more activity in the infrastructure related sectors than in the rest.