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There will be increased merger activity as global energy companies find buying proven reserves more promising than exploration and development.

There were also signs that housing market activity may be beginning to level off.

There was still a significant amount of activity on that Friday.

The report is stronger than appears on the surface. Unlike other parts of the economy, manufacturing activity moved up, so I would say in general this is a pretty solid report. Utility output was down probably because of the relatively cool summer we had.

There's a lot of activity that's going to be taking place over the next two to three years.

Jack London

There's a lot of activity going, and I think you'll find this kind of activity right now because of the political aspect of this.

There's a huge amount of activity that is controlled by hedge funds, and they're trying to find some performance after a bad last year.

There'll be a lot of short-term specials and apparent flurries of activity that will, on the surface, appear to bring prices down, but at the end of the year there will not have been a lot of progress.

Philippe Petit

You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.

You see a lot of activity going on there. He's spent almost $800,000 on his renovation. He plans to have about 30 employees. My client believes he needs the (sign variances) to be seen from all lanes of the parkway.

You need individuals coming together that have a good business understanding of the activity or transaction that occurs at any given step of the process and then articulate that for IT to find the right solution.

Tom Kane

This is going to be a real activity center.

This is further good news for the expansion of the funds sector in Jersey, which the States has been keen to encourage through regulatory changes and the Economic Development Committees emphasis on attracting more hedge fund activity to the island.

George Allen

This is fraudulent and criminal activity that must be prosecuted and must be stopped to protect innocent people.

This is an industry event, and Microsoft is not going to own it, ... But I think they're going to change the economics. Free of the government's pressure ... Microsoft's efforts would usher in an era of creativity, entrepreneurialism and activity in the server marketplace that we have never seen before, very much like we saw in the PC era when it was first booming; when it was first mushrooming and blossoming in the 1980s and early 1990s.

This is going to be a wonderful resource for us. It will fit in well to improve the health of the kids, and fit more exercise into the day, which in effect will make them better learners. Kids who have more physical activity are better learners. There used to be a mindset that physical education and activity was a waste of time in school, but it is not.

This is a strong line-up of talent to bring to the Granite City. It reflects the network's diversity in terms of musical coverage, and you can be assured that these artists are at the very top of their profession. We are extremely grateful for our collaboration with Aberdeen City Council who have ensured that this week of on and off-air activity from BBC Radio 2 is going to be held in Scotland for the first time.

This is the fourth year we've seen a downturn in customer activity at one point in the year and usually it's lasting two to four months, and we're not overly concerned about that. But clearly, it's a competitive marketplace.

This is the first time we have actually measured pain activity in the human brain.

This is the first study to show this long-term relationship between physical activity and dementia later in life.

This is the first study to show this long-term relation between physical activity and dementia later in life.

This is not your typical math class. There is more activity and more engagement with the students, and a lot more time is spent.

Ken Spillman

Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read.

Healthy mortgage lending data show that housing market activity extended its recent firmer performance in December. This is also borne out by the latest survey evidence consistently showing increased buyer interest.

If expectations for prolonged zero rates grow excessively, that may stimulate demand too much, cause a swing in economic activity and force the central bank to make drastic policy changes.

I don't see any sign of housing activity having a significant slowdown on a national basis going forward,

Kerry Healey

I am not going to encourage illegal activity here in Massachusetts and I do not want Massachusetts to become a Mecca for illegal immigrants.

I do have this sort of weakening of the housing sector, but I think it should be thought of as a systematic cooling down process toward sustainable levels of activity and not viewed as kind of a classic housing downswing that's part of an economic cycle leading to a recession.

Josh Bernstein

If Congress were able to act, there would be much less activity in the state legislatures.

Because of higher prices, things like one-day tours to the neighbor islands have declined. Hopefully, if we begin seeing more seats and lower fares, some of that activity will come back.

Umberto Guidoni

Because, of course, almost all of the rest of the crewmembers will be pretty busy with this, with the activity of the rendezvous and docking.

Because now it has been established and detected in all of California's counties by the end of 2004, we expect more widespread and earlier activity this year. I'm sure we'll see more activity in Oregon and Washington as well.

Certainly, the tone of the Inflation Report did not hint at such a pronounced division within the central bank, but rather one where the majority is content to overlook shortfalls in economic activity in an environment where inflation is tracking close to target and expected to continue doing so over the forecast horizon.