Famous Quotes & Sayings

In recent months, both General Motors and Ford have announced plans to close numerous facilities, eliminating roughly 2.4 million units of North American capacity through 2008. We estimate that once these restructuring initiatives are complete, North American capacity for the 'traditional' Big Three will likely drop below 10 million units, down from over 12.5 million in 2005.

CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.

C&W has announced a sharply lower outlook for UK profitability in 2007, underlining our fears about dire performance in this division. There may also be doubts about the dividend cover from here.

Meredith Salenger

I announced to my mother one day when I was 8 that I wanted to be a serious actress.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

I announced my consent to run for reelection as I intend to continue the policy of consolidating society, bringing stability to our nation and conduct complicated reforms we have just started,

Garth Brooks

I announced last year that I won't be touring again. But CBS has given me the opportunity to take my music to the people in a new way, to have the fun of performing live, and to do it in such a way that I don't have to be away from home for long periods of time. It's going to be fun.

Certainly she hasn't announced yet, and she's probably not decided yet, either. The immediate task for her supporters here is to win re-election. That's what everyone is focused on.

But they were the most visible. When they announced their Canyon Ranch Living in Florida, with their big high-rise and that wonderful cuisine and even a medical component, they had an automatic clientele. So many people have had the experience of Canyon Ranch, it was a grand success right away.

The hotel capital markets continue to be flush with cash, due in part to the record profits the U.S. industry will have earned in 2005. There will be several major trophy hotel sales that will be completed or announced in the first half of 2006 with more to come after.

The hope was still there until they announced the last team. But there's nothing we can do about it now. We just have to get prepared for our games in the NIT.

You've got some mergers that were announced today that are very favorable to the market. People who thought the market was going lower are finally throwing in the towel and putting their cash positions to work.

All this speculation surrounding my role in the third round of voting for the 2012 candidates is totally unfounded. I state that I did not vote in the third round - as I had announced at the time of the vote.

Chris Phillips

The major reaction when EA announced their exclusive deal in December was, 'God, this is a huge loss, not just for sports games but for the industry in general,'

The key point is that the two fundamental problems which lead to Wal-Mart insuring so few of its workers is the fact they have extremely high deductibles and very strict eligibility requirements, ... Nothing that they announced today addresses either of these fundamental problems.

Despite the announced closure of the two Tyson plants, Nebraska's confidence index stood at a regional high of 70.2. Certainly, the rising fortunes of the state's ethanol and renewable energy industry have buoyed businesses in this industry or firms with close ties to this industry.

A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.

Any marketing program that we would offer would be consistent with the marketing strategy we announced on Jan. 10.

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

A replacement will be announced in due course. The ship is in good shape and she feels she needs a change.

Right now, we haven't announced a freeze. We're closely monitoring any new purchases that anyone is sending over to us. I wouldn't call it a freeze yet. I may be announcing something like that in the next week or two.

President Hinckley is resting comfortably. As announced last evening, we expect that he will recover rapidly and resume his normal duties soon.

Todd Dunivant

Sampson hasn't announced the starting lineup. I'll take a fitness test before the game (to see if I'm ready). I'm optimistic.

SAN FRANCISCO-September 7, 2005-Apple today announced that the entire Harry Potter audiobook series is now available exclusively on the iTunes Music Store, the world's number one online music service. For the first time ever, every audiobook in the series, including the latest release,

pursuing previously announced earnings targets despite the challenging fourth quarter and extremely difficult market conditions.

RBS had very strong results and announced a big new buyback, while Lloyds TSB came out with a cost cutting program - HBOS is just in line after those performances, and its stock price has had a very strong run in the last several months.

Prices on several of our key products have started to move up in the U.S. and some of our major Asian markets are beginning to recover from the economic problems of last year, ... Overall, business has clearly improved, and we are optimistic that the price increases we announced will be fully implemented during the second quarter.

Projects that are announced today will be significantly delayed or will never come to fruition.

G. H. Hardy

People, as soon as the LDS Church announced they would build a temple, clamored to get lots, ... The prices went up significantly.

Rebecca MacKinnon

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

Jane Green

A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.

Gary Johnson

After completing a strong first quarter, we are very disappointed with the product transition setback that we announced on April 19.

A couple of weeks ago we announced we were proceeding with negotiations with News Corp. That is our priority, ... We are engaged in these negotiations with News Corp. and Sky Global Network. The company and our board of directors have an obligation to respond to the interests of all of our shareholders. As such, we would always consider any alternative.

Some sanctions have been announced which are pretty irrelevant.