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It would provide more certainty so that highway planner and builders would know what's coming.

We tried to tell the builders to lay them down or try and move them next to a building, ... There wasn't a lot we could do. If we wanted to pick them all up, we'd have to get started once a (tropical) wave comes off Africa.

It was just a good confidence builder for the girls.

The big builders are marking down their outlooks for 2006 and rolling out some sales incentives -- the sort of things we see when the market starts to weaken on the demand side.

That helps offset the slowing housing market. They have diversification that a lot of other builders don't have. But I do think their earnings growth will slow. There's no doubt about that.

Phil Jackson

It's a confidence builder for this team. It shows we can overcome odds.

It's a real confidence builder for our team, to play the No. 1 team in the country and get a point.

It's a nice touch. From the professionals' standpoint, builders and contractors and unions, I think they just want to do their part for the community. It's their way of giving back.

It was the custom for organ builders to take an old organ and enlarge it at a later time,

John Burns

It's been years since we have seen any unsold inventory like this in Phoenix's new-home market. Too many builders went too far out and built houses that were too expensive.

It was a big win. A program turnaround win. It was a nice builder for next year. We're going to be good.

Every builder should spend 24 hours in a wheelchair in their own home. They would think differently about building homes that would be more friendly to people with disabilities.

It's time to start thinking of parents and families as community builders and not just as service recipients. While the craniofacial community may be small by comparison to other health issue communities like heart disease or cancer or diabetes, we are nonetheless a community. Dont underestimate individuals with facial differences or their parents what they have learned in their lives can be put to meaningful use to help others.

Bob Lewis

It's the site - that's the issue. It isn't who the builder is.

Developers or builders would speculate on the higher-end homes, figuring that the market was there. We've seen a definite pullback in that speculative market.

The builders would swoop in and wipe them out. There is just no way to police that at the cash register.

The builders of the Santa Fe lines in the early days no doubt planned ultimately to penetrate to the Pacific coast, knowing that the real opportunity for the road lay in that direction.

The builders do understand that we need continued job growth if they are to sustain the market.

The Builders Association has a perfect track record from my point of view: There's not one environmental protection that they haven't opposed.

The builders are willing and ready to pay their fair share of the cost of the growth, but they also have to be able to build at prices that the market can support.

After several record-breaking years for home sales, builders are anticipating a return of the market to a healthy and steady pace.

Some softening of long-term interest rates since early December helped buoy builder attitudes. Consumer confidence has rebounded nicely from post-Katrina lows.

Now it's 30 builders who dominate the scene.

Burning Spear

There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.

At any one time, Manny had a core group of professional builders who would contract the work,

A lot of national and regional builders are in the market, and all are trying to gain market share quickly. To do that, they are building units quickly and keeping prices down. It's volume and a competitive price.

Chris Hernandez

A lot of guys stepped up and we had guys down. We started scrapping and finding a way to win. I think that was a confidence builder for some of the younger guys.

John Calipari

This could have been a momentum builder going into the conference tournament, but we couldn't rebound ... If we could have gotten one more rebound in the last five minutes of the game, we could have won.

Brad Lidge

It really is (important). We really needed these game. To take two is a real momentum builder for us. Everybody's taking care of their business.

There may have been a little over-enthusiasm trying to serve the high end previously, but we haven't seen any evidence the high end is having problems. We have also seen some national builders trying to buy market share by pricing more aggressively.

This is an exciting time for the building industry. Builders say more customers want green homes, and we are ready for that challenge.

This is the first time I've ever seen or heard that a developer wants to do the show back to back. And the builders wanted to be in on it again. That's unheard of.

I don't think they're less cautious. But they've just understood that they can sell more. There's just continued strong demand for homes, and the builders are trying to build homes that will sell.