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While we are obviously disappointed with the results, we anticipate that in the current fiscal year we will begin to reap the benefits of our large and successful effort to upgrade and expand our store base,

While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.

While the precise outcome of the legal process remains to be seen, Kmart believes that, in light of Hechinger's filing, it is appropriate to take the charge at this time. Considering current market conditions, we anticipate that Kmart will be able to convert or sub-lease most, if not all, of these properties within a reasonable period after they are returned.

While the new surface demands adjustment, we are also excited about our field and know that it will provide us with a new attitude and home field advantage. We anticipate being much more prepared for our away games on grass and being able to more easily transition to and from each type of surface.

Judith Miller

You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.

Fire season is here. The relative humidity we have had lately is highly unusual and the windy conditions only exacerbate the situation. We anticipate conditions to be like this for a while. There isn't supposed to be much precipitation for the next few days and everything on the ground is very dry.

There are always some people who will say negative things just to get attention from the press, ... Our forecast is realistic. It's not spectacular. There are some lagging factors such as unemployment and energy costs that could bring it down. At this time we don't anticipate changing our forecast.

When you first offer a new service, most people say they don't want it. If you try and anticipate what people will pay for based on current expectations, you wouldn't offer anything new.

When you first become an EMT, you are extremely gung-ho, with a sense that you save lives, ... You are the antidote to all of life's miseries. You make people rise from the dead. But when you are an EMT for a length of time, you come to the grim reality that the number of lives that you actually save are small. You stabilize people until they get to the hospital. You make sure they can breathe and don't bleed to death and nothing more.

There are 60,000 condominium and 19,000 condo-hotel units currently proposed, planned or under construction in the Las Vegas Valley. But we anticipate that less than 25 percent of those units will actually be built in the next five years.

David Souter

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

With Easter being three weeks later this year than 2005, we expected weaker sales in March. We anticipate the April four-week period to be stronger, with comp sales of 4 to 6 percent.

While it is difficult to anticipate unanticipated events, investors could become increasingly concerned about oil, earnings and interest rates -- the trio of trepidation -- in the traditionally weak third quarter.

With the continuing strength of the Arizona and Colorado economies, combined with the momentum of our banking franchise, we are very optimistic about 2006. We anticipate strong contributions from all of our business lines in the coming year.

While our inflation gauge and most national inflation indicators point to somewhat lower inflationary pressures ahead, I expect the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee to raise interest rates at its next meeting on Jan. 31. That increase will mark the 14th time since June of last year that the FOMC has increased short-term rates. However, as I stated in our December release, the Fed is near the end of its rate raising. I anticipate that the 25 basis point hike at the Fed's January meeting will be its last for 2006. Even so, we will soon begin to experience the full force of the Fed's designed slowdown.

Steve Blake

With 27-foot ceilings, large power, available rail and excellent highway access, no other facility bundles these characteristics in such a high quality, modern facility. We anticipate great demand.

Wayne Graham

We've worked harder this fall than we ever have because we started earlier, ... We started right when we could and started doing the individual work because we anticipate that we have a lot of talent and that there is some talent that we need to develop to fill in with the existing talent. It does look good.

Cameron Smith

We are certainly watching in interest. But the SEC has said that the ITS system is antiquated and needs a complete restructuring.

We really don't anticipate a whole lot of change, and any change probably would be good from a customer service standpoint,

James Spithill

You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can't anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won't be able to cut it, either.

We've had a lot of longtime customers who have been coming here for decades. We anticipate the product is going to be such a step up, it will set a new standard in the downtown area. We think our customers, who have been loyal to us, understand that what we'll be providing is so much better than what we have now. They'll want to come back and test it out.

Herman Edwards

We all anticipate him coming back. When he's going to come back, at this point in time, it's not up to us. It's up to the doctors. It's no different than it was last year. He's on a program. To say he's going to be back when, when he's going to be throwing full-range, all that stuff, at this point I have no idea.

The original scope of the project was in the $165 million range, but I anticipate that budget may be pared somewhat. But it's still going to be a major expenditure.

There is so much cash in the corporate coffers out there, that I think you can probably anticipate there will be more mergers happening.

The Red Cross has assisted more than 55 families who have arrived here to the Portland area by their own means. As disaster survivors, they are eligible for Red Cross assistance. And we anticipate more coming.

We've heard so much Bon Jovi this year. When we anticipate crowd noise, he'll bring it out. We put on the Bon Jovi and we go out there and go to work to it. Matter of fact, I got a couple favorite tunes too, man. I kind of became a Bon Jovi fan this year.

We think they'll be prime events, ... We anticipate the top players leading the points will be in the elite events.

We think the Idol audience is unbelievably loyal. This is their favorite show, and we anticipate that our ratings will be solid.

Marcus Aurelius

You have friends, Paullus, just like your pictures and vases, all antique originals

We don't anticipate this problem with our next project, ... But for future disposal, we will have to look at waterways.

Ann Davis

We don't anticipate that this is going to slow down the process. In fact, this is a simplified process, given these items are no longer prohibited.

We don't anticipate that Governor Taft is necessarily going to respond to this campaign without the assistance of members of the General Assembly.

Jack Rio

We don't anticipate playing our starting players for long. The two major keys to this game is to complete the evaluation process and to get our team to the opener healthy.