Famous Quotes & Sayings

We believe that these initiatives, together with improved cash flow from business operations, have enhanced our financial flexibility. We currently have sufficient resources to retire the remaining '06 convertible notes at maturity and based on current forecasts we believe we will have sufficient liquidity available to satisfy the $146 million of 5% convertible notes due March 2007. As previously announced, during the first quarter of 2006 we purchased in the open market $30 million face value of our outstanding $471 million aggregate principal amount of 9.25% Senior notes due February 2008.

When there would be changes, they'd staff up the Social Security offices. Every congressman would staff up the office. Every mayor had a Social Security specialist so at the local level they could help people see how their benefits changed. The aggregate long list of choices - calling an 800 number, going to a website - is just very hard for seniors.

Shashi Tharoor

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Ron Carlson

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

What we do is we measure the response time to process one of these e-mail transactions for each one of those servers. And then we aggregate that data cross all of those servers every five minutes.

Some modest further increase in the policy interest rate would be required to keep aggregate supply and demand in balance and inflation on target.

George Akerlof

In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level.

Neil Peart

It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.

Helen Keller

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Today's announcement furthers our goal of doing what is right for our shareholders and employees, ... With our previously announced sale of nine stations, we're now close to $1 billion in aggregate sales proceeds while we continue to evaluate alternatives for our remaining stations.

We want to aggregate video and other content and make it available in a legal and sanctioned area.

We are going for a flat market in aggregate for next year, with a bit of upside in the first quarter running through to the last Fed rate hike and then a growth slowdown theme,

Jean Piaget

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.

William Kingdon Clifford

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

The only way the board is going to change on the aggregate is if the community gets involved.

I could swear I heard a score recently - 16 September, 2003 to be precise - where the home team won 6-0 and where the aggregate score was six-all. I think it was a League Cup match in Wales. Was I dreaming? And if not, is this the biggest two-leg comeback of them all?

To get faster job growth, we're going to need either faster aggregate demand, which seems hard to fathom, or we're going to need some diminution of the recent extra cyclical pop in productivity, ... When will that start? Anybody who says they know is lying.

We're now close to $1 billion in aggregate sales proceeds while we continue to evaluate alternatives for our remaining stations,

We suspect the FOMC will say that while Katrina had a devastating regional impact, aggregate growth should be only temporarily damped.

For us, we have a tremendous asset in the customer base, ... We haven't done as good a job as I think we can at understanding the aggregate customer business.

If the Series is two large-market teams, like the Yankees versus the Dodgers, aggregate revenues would easily exceeded rights fee payments.

While the monthly December data was not itself a negative surprise, the aggregate 2005 total was a rude reminder.

David Souter

While Congress did not, to my knowledge, calculate aggregate dollar values for the nationwide effects of racial discrimination in 1964, in 1994 it did rely on evidence of the harms caused by domestic violence and sexual assault, citing annual costs of $3 billion in 1990 and $5 to $10 billion in 1993.

Eskinder Nega

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopia's prosperity.

David Cassidy

Overall earnings revision trends going into reporting season appear very healthy in an aggregate sense, with the market remaining in net upgrade mode.

Markets become disorderly due to aggregate psychology. That's difficult for anyone to assess at any time, but you look for red flags, like significant overreactions to data,

We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 1998, which was disappointing.

We are training for objective behavior characteristics. Certainly, there is some interpretation, but there has to be such an aggregate number of concerns before we do get involved, and there will be constant review and oversight and analysis of the data to be sure their folks are performing in a proper manner.

Winwood Reade is good upon the subject, said Holmes. ""He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Ben Bernanke

In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.

We continue to believe that aggregate service provider spending in the U.S. will actually grow about 10 percent in 2001, and that our companies will report an average revenue increase of 25 percent next year. Despite this, the average price-earnings multiple of our group is now approaching levels last seen in 1997-98.

Martin Feldstein

We do not understand the links between asset prices, monetary policy, and aggregate demand. We do not understand speculative markets adequately.

All of the neighboring jurisdictions need to get together and put our best proposal together. We need to make an aggregate presentation to Toyota ... eventually somebody shines. We want to be the one to shine.