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This would imply that construction activity may contribute less to overall economic growth this year, and simultaneously add fewer jobs compared to the 260,000 average over the past two years.

This would be an indication that activity is increasing at more than half the manufacturing firms in the survey, and another sign of growth.

John Gardner

The question is not what's happening in 1998, but what if any anticompetitive activity occurred in the past. The fact that competitive conditions have changed would not vitiate any alleged anticompetitive activity in the past.

Billy Brown

The project is excellent and on schedule. The activity of the area on Daniels and I-75 is very exciting.

Traders are just lightening their positions a little bit. The holidays are compressing the activity and I think most of the (options) rolling over you saw yesterday.

I think we're finally going to see some activity from the ISPs to do something about this.

Dick Cheney

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time, ... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

I think we'll see sales activity pick up as we get into the year.

I think we'll see a pickup in market activity in the afternoon, but for now market participants are reluctant to take positions ahead of Bush's address later in the morning.

I think we'll see an increase in virus activity as Linux becomes more mainstream.

I think we will see more activity in the Philippines in the next day or two. I'm hopeful that we'll have a successful resolution of this case.

Peter Oppenheimer

I think that between now and September or October there's not going to be a lot of activity in equity markets. People are not going to be wanting more exposure until we see confirmation of a recovery.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I think what we want to do is make sure that the people who are buying handguns have a clean record and at a minimum aren't people who have been convicted of criminal activity in the past, even if it is a misdemeanor activity.

Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My differences have only been on what the solutions should be.

We're not expecting an entirely clean read for the durable goods report. The business confidence data began to bottom at the end of June and that's encouraging. We probably will see modest gains in consumer activity and eventually the business cycle will catch up to that. But so far, everything right now is pointing to frustrating moderate economic growth for the time being,

Judith Curry

We're not even at the peak of the current cycle we're only halfway up and already we're seeing activity in the North Atlantic that's 50 percent worse than what we saw during the last peak in 1950.

The only social activity in American households that suffers significantly as a result of Internet use is time spent watching television.

We are in wonderful shape and delighted with the response that people are giving in their support for this effort. It is going to be on the ballot--which is probably why you're seeing some of this activity taking place in the Legislature right now.

This school board administration will not stomach this kind of activity going on on our buses or schools. That person or persons involved in this incident this afternoon will face full criminal prosecution.

Was it a success or a failure? On one hand, it was a failure because it didn't shut down all economic activity in California. On the other hand, it is a success because nobody really felt like this was an unreasonable act of civil disobedience.

What led to it was community support and reports of suspicious activity in the neighborhood,

Dorothy Hamill

Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

While it's imprecise to extrapolate trends from a single distribution center, in our view the activity levels at this facility demonstrate that Amazon is highly likely to meet or exceed our December quarter revenue estimate of $1 billion. Shipment levels appear to be at least on plan, with a very high backlog of orders to be filled.

Dylan Lauren

While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beautiful scenery.

With the activity that I see from buyers, when the spring inventory hits, I think we're going to have a good, strong year. We will see.

John O'Keefe

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

Bill Gates

We will have the largest marketing activity that we've ever had.

Jack Lynch

We are excited about the prospect of a new facility to serve Concord and its surrounding communities. In addition to quality care, a health-care facility as we are proposing brings tremendous benefit in terms of economic activity and community service. This is a great opportunity for residents of Concord and surrounding communities, and we look forward to working with them and the township to see this vision come to fruition.

We are entering the second quarter with a high level of activity and many initiatives in our pipeline.

Gary Smith

We are encouraged by the order activity we have seen thus far in our fiscal first quarter and expect that revenue in the quarter could increase by as much as 10 percent from our fiscal 2002 fourth quarter,

We are encouraged by the better-than-expected (comparable-store sales) ... but we note that high promotional activity will likely continue to pressure merchandise margins.

Underwriting revenues and M&A activity picked up as 2003 progressed; 2004 is off to a strong start,

Two staff members on the island attempted to search the area where the missing person was thought to be but had to retreat due to further volcanic activity and the track being impassable with fallen trees and ash.