Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Patterson

This is not good. The decline in enrollment is something we have to grapple with.

Martin Feldstein

And when the dollar decline makes foreign travel much more expensive, I will do more of my vacation traveling in the United States.

Due to the low bookings in the fourth quarter we now expect a further decline in sales for the first quarter.

At present, no decline in housing construction is evident in the data,

We think that these feedbacks are starting to take hold and that we're going to see an accelerated decline in sea ice.

We're doing about what we expected. Going into the reporting season, the estimate were for a decline of 18 percent and we said we thought we'd end up about down 15 but may end up down 16.

We saw the impact of the recession in 2002 and 2003, then saw a smaller decline in 2004. But in 2005, we started to see job increases, and that's a positive sign.

What is significant is that the use of these substances has declined substantially since the recent peak levels reached in the mid-1990s.

What is likely is that you will see a decline in scores whenever a new test is administered. It's due to unfamiliarity with the test.

We find that after the onset of manifestations of Alzheimer's disease patients with higher education decline faster.

We got a bigger-than-expected decline because offshore production is still down by more than 50 percent and imports were down. The shock of Katrina is still being felt.

Mark Zandi

You have to go back 25 years to find a decline that is as significant on a percentage basis.

We've had pullbacks in the price over the last few months, and the prices have always rebounded, so there's some wariness. You need to see a more sustained decline in prices over a longer period of time.

We already were expecting a 5,000-job decline in manufacturing employment in May.

There is a lot of nervousness about gasoline after the huge decline in supplies the last five weeks.

It would take a large decline or a significant shock to the system to see a reduction in deals.

E. B. White

These declines do seem to be irreversible now,

The risk does decline with time after you stop but those numbers aren't clear,

There will probably be some funds flowing out of Taiwan, weakening the currency. More losses in the stock index may prompt some investors to sell more shares. The Taiwan dollar has room to decline today.

We monitor the lake's fish populations yearly and watched the quality of the bluegill decline after we found shad in the lake.

We might still be seeing some small declines in manufacturing overall, but even that's a mix. This year you'll see more hiring in nondurable manufacturing sectors such as in chemicals, in rubber, in plastics, in paper.

We expect that funds held 17-18 million ounces of gross long positions as of Tuesday. If the net long position is more than this then we will become even more bearish; only a release that shows that the net long positions declined from the 15 million ounces reported last week would make us positive about the short-term outlook for gold.

James Brooks

These livestock futures declines are all feeding off one another. You can't isolate just one reason for the lower prices. It's all inter-related.

Mark Zandi

Gasoline, home heating prices, they are very volatile. Some months they're up, some months they're down. They depend on the vagaries of the weather ? It's warm, it's cold. The big decline I think will result in a big increase next month.

Still, the one-month modest decline in the index is in line with the general trend of economic expansion since 9/11 (terrorist attacks) and the weakness of 2002.

It's unusual. It's a significant decline from the pace that he was on.

Do not read too much into the weak January reading as the entire decline was due to the weather.

Considering the huge increase in the stock prices towards the end of last year, the price decline is due to unmatched demand and supply, rather than because of fundamentals.

The notion that the digital imaging market is losing ground just isn't accurate. Overall, the short-term outlook is very good, and while the long-term outlook shows declines in sales, there is still great potential for the market.

It's a great number obviously, and that's a sigh of relief, but I wouldn't put too much into the decline of the core,

It's extremely important for districts like ours that are seeing a pattern of decline in enrollment.

Hugh Johnson

It's a big drop, a very substantial drop. The magnitude of the decline is a surprise.

It's been good returns this year, and people are locking in their profits and squaring positions. I won't read too much into the decline today.