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Those types of announcements don't make the news but layoffs of any sort do, ... I think we're at a stage where healthy companies are hiring but that there is still a shakeout with some of the weaker companies.

Charles Schumer

What is going on, in my opinion, the root of the problem is far deeper than local gas stations. It goes to huge oil companies who are in cahoots with OPEC.

What is giving us protection is all the global competition that we have. That is preventing companies from passing on most of the costs. Even though productivity has been slowing down, it's still fairly significant.

What I was trying to convince companies with the report is that if you're increasing productivity in the field, that has a pretty large impact on profitability. And there is still a need to improve productivity out there.

We find that companies tend to be more responsive when we get complaints.

We got a lot of companies this week, but it wasn't a good cross-section of industries. Next week is a much better cross-section. But so far, so good.

We found that the medical instruments guys had very little to do with the biotech guys and that's why we separated them. They don't have the same labor force needs. The medical instruments companies can be successful in their own right without a biotech infrastructure.

We have about 700 different accounts, and probably 40 of them are distributors. I'd suspect that there are probably a couple of thousand companies that use our products throughout the country.

Twenty to 25 percent of our resources are going to be directed toward making sure companies don't drop programs.

You hear a lot of these rumors, a lot of speculation by possibly energy trading companies that may stand to gain a profit from that. But it's really hard to say.

You have two companies that make 90 percent of N-95 masks,

Olivia Mitchell

To its credit, GM is trying to remake itself and make good on the promises it made in the past. Companies are not required to make open-ended promises into the future.

Gary Miller

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

Jim Carroll

The world has come a long way in seven years, and it's quite feasible that it will go an even longer way in another seven. It's a question of when and which companies discover the technology that takes it to the next step.

These are very early stage companies that have a good idea, product or service and we help them develop it.

These are two very different stocks, ... Merck is one of the premier pharmaceutical companies in the world. It's selling at 18 times next year's estimates.

These are sort of the new frontiers so to speak. Western companies have not traditionally been in these zones.

The search companies have found that developing robust services for mobile devices is not as easy as rolling out another different Web service. There are a lot more inherent limitations and other parties, including the carriers, to consider.

Richard Hayes

The SBA has developed a certification process designed to treat small companies equitably and give them an efficient first step into the federal procurement arena.

I've seen companies grow tremendously in a very short period of time.

I've worked in several large companies (e.g., SRI, McGraw-Hill, the United States Postal Service) and never seen anything like it. You couldn't get anything done without filling out a form. There was even a form that you had to fill out when there wasn't any regular form available.

There's lots of small and large opportunities. I don't think we're fully tapped it out, ... We are talking to video game companies about sports-content games. So far we haven't talked to video game companies yet about the swimsuit franchise, but I imagine it'll probably come up.

There's no trodden path here. We can't go back and look at what other companies have done because no other company has done this.

There's no top-line growth -- that's the problem. Companies are cutting costs and people to meet their targets, but there are only so many people they can cut.

There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive force to our industry.

The trend toward project-based operations is gathering momentum. Since IFS is one of the few companies offering a comprehensive, completely integrated, project-based solution, the company is well positioned to support enterprises in their transition toward the Project Economy.

The trend toward consolidation is being driven by globalization, with mergers giving companies from all industries sufficient scale and a lower cost structure to enable them to compete in a global arena.

The trends are all the same here, that no matter how profitable these companies get, they still are trying to downgrade these jobs. That's what we are trying to draw the line against. And we hope that the public will understand.

The trend in economic reports from supply managers in our survey has been fairly positive since October of last year following some of the negative shipping impacts from Hurricane Katrina. Companies with strong ties to the state's growing ethanol industry reported solid growth for February but were very optimistic about future economic growth for this sector.

The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world. Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made.

The tobacco company can kill us. The package food companies can clog our arteries. The oil companies can provoke wars. But, apparently, there's no industry more despicable than the music industry. We are hated just because we refuse to acknowledge the public's God-given rights to steal music.

I see three strong wireless equipment companies involved, and Psion is strong in palmtop devices, ... They have lots of promise, but I'm not sure what the strength on the software side is. Why not make a product that uses Windows CE?

I've discovered four dirty little secrets of empowerment. And those little secrets are preventing 99.9 percent of companies around the world from providing the superior service customers want. As a result, they are driving many of those customers away.