Famous Quotes & Sayings

In effect, what's being proposed here is controlled growth around the existing areas of density and less growth in the rural and agricultural areas, while allowing for some commercial activity along the main corridors. This is to prevent sprawl, where growth happens wherever. The county actually had some very positive comments about the ordinance. They said it was cutting edge.

In an environment providing real-time information to media, any security incident, triggered with malicious intent or not, can have disastrous consequences. For a highly visible event like the Olympic Games, the challenge of IT security is not only to prevent unauthorized people from accessing the systems, but to control the activity of authorized people inside the games' network.

I'm not sure we as a community are spending the kind of resources we need. The public sector needs to step forward. And I think that's a good use of public dollars because this activity creates jobs.

Illinois home sales most likely have reached their peak level in this four-year expansion, and Realtors expect 2006 to see healthy activity in the housing sector with continued favorable price appreciation.

Dorien Bryant

He's excited, a year of no type of activity is frustrating because you got to watch, but at the same time it's frustrating for everyone who wants to play. He's really looking forward to it.

Housing is a major bulwark for the economy. I would hate to think what would happen if and when the housing activity gets tapped out.

Housing activity remains quite robust despite the slowing economy, decline in jobs, and faltering stock market.

House prices tend to move seasonally, driven up by higher demand and activity in the warmer months and falling off towards Christmas. Just as the trading period over Christmas is crucial for the retail sector, the spring and summer are crucial for the housing market.

Housing-related activity has definitely slowed and its contributions to economic growth, both direct and indirect, will fade over the next couple of quarters.

Housing may get another mini boost from the recent drop in rates. These data do lag a bit. Still, it is clear that, low rates or not, housing is not on fire the way it once was. The level of activity remains quite high for housing. But the prospects for further growth do not look that strong based on momentum.

It was really the department store chains and the apparel retailers that took it on the chin with weak January sales results. But a couple of names in those two groups are guiding higher than expected, predicated on expectations of lower promotional activity going into spring.

It will have the standard design for our intermediate activity towers.

It's about six more months. A lot of it depends on what the retail activity is and the season -- how much demand there is, whether people are buying products. It seems to fluctuate a little every year, kind of like the weather almost.

Keiji Fukuda

It is still quite early in our influenza season and we expect activity to pick up in the coming weeks. It is definitely not too late to get your flu shot if you have not received one.

It is rare to have two consecutive years with such a strong simultaneous combination of high amounts of major hurricane activity together with especially favorable steering flow currents. The historical records and the laws of statistics indicate that the probability of seeing another two consecutive hurricane seasons like 2004-2005 is very low.

It is unlikely that the region is really an oasis of activity in an otherwise bleak manufacturing landscape.

It's a good day for the market, ... It's a great boon for the economy when you've got more than $70 billion in M&A activity (mergers and acquisitions), and these companies are making these moves because they think the economy is getting better.

It's very easy to blame bird migration, because then no one's responsible. Migrating birds may introduce the virus into an area, but it is human activity that spreads it.

I want people with disabilities to know that there's another activity that they can participate in.

They (Crouch and Buchanan) had the unmitigated nerve to stand up to Dr. Reddy's illegal activity and that is the only reason they are no longer working in the jobs they did so well,

They could have said there's a clear acceleration in economic activity currently under way, but it remains at risk of weakening or reversing, owing to the labor market and other factors. To leave it out completely doesn't make any sense to me -- it's as if they think the market's full of dummies.

The warm weather in January will provide a temporary upward boost to housing construction, but activity is expected to taper off in February.

The volatility that we're seeing is ... (because) greater than 50 percent of the activity is program trading. The swings are really violent.

They bounce pretty quickly from one activity to the next. Sometimes it is more difficult on the parents and the adults than it is on the kids.

They view it that that is more likely to keep the overall economy performing in a relatively smooth way so that the seasonality - if there is any - in credit demands doesn't cause large swings in interest rates, which in turn cause activity to turn on and turn off in an erratic way.

Janet Reno

they've spent a small fortune . . . going after a lot of business and white-collar crime. I'm more interested in drug trafficking, organized crime, going after that type of hard-core criminal activity and getting a better balance.

Richard Powers

They have vulnerabilities even without the Y2K opportunity added on to them. So that's why there is activity about contingency plans.

They have very little activity on the fire.

Ron Silver

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

It's appropriate to step up our current activity and affirm our faith in the long-term prospects of the company.

It's going to be rewarding activity that's already taking place in California ... so there is nothing but revenue being given away,

It's for all to see that stern police activity has curbed crimes.

It's generally a time when people get nervous. Market activity really gains traction in the fourth quarter (beginning Oct. 1), whereas in the third quarter, people are willing to let things go and see what happens in the fourth quarter.