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

The total number of hours worked in the private sector by production labor declined even though there were more of those jobs. That tells me that we're seeing a shift not just away from manufacturing jobs but toward jobs with shorter hours.

We saw a pretty significant, 12 percent quarter-on-quarter decline in memory prices.

Ronald Reagan

We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.

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.

We expect further declines in 2006 and subsequent years as pent-up demand is fulfilled and as interest rates rise over the medium term.

There's still going to be mushroom theft in this area, but I expect to see a significant decline now.

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.

It should be a positive for the market. The decline was more than expected. It probably has to do with the drop in energy prices that we've seen. To come in down 0.7 is less inflationary pressure.

It's been a steady decline over the past 28 years that I've been with the agency.

Mike May

It's been a fairly steady decline since the 1980s.

The negative of last Friday's decline was not the decline itself, but the complacency of the decline. There's too much complacency.

After the huge gains in energy stocks this year, people may be taking some money off the table just to be careful. People may also be selling some shares in anticipation of the usual, seasonal decline early in the year for energy.

After the sharp decline in the dollar, we were in a situation where we could see a pullback.

It's natural to see a drop after a long-time rally. The index may further decline in the week as investors trim positions but will probably gain support at the 1,330 level.

That type of monthly decline was unprecedented. We were not comfortable with management's explanation as to why it happened.

That type of monthly decline was unprecedented, ... We were not comfortable with management's explanation as to why it happened.

John Higgins

Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

At this time last year, people were talking a lot about the U.S. twin deficits and predicted the dollar would decline in 2005. They were wrong.

The larger declines were recorded in the high-priced markets that are more sensitive to mortgage rate changes.

I'm expecting declines today on the back of the U.S..

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.

The two-month decline in the index suggests that the already-weak economy is likely to remain weak into next year.

In London (the worst) probably is over. The London economy, in our estimates, declined at end of last year and has actually picked up since then, ... For the rest of the U.K., I think probably the worst period is the first half of this year.

In a number of areas, particularly on the coasts, they have a high risk of price declines in the next two years.

Mitch Daniels

The report we've issued this morning confirms that the nation has entered an era of solid surpluses, surpluses on the order of $160 billion, despite an economy that's been weak now for over a year and in decline for that time.

There might be some seasonal reasons for the construction losses, but the decline could be a sign that our overall employment growth is slowing.

This is the third decline in the last four months. Again, it's worrisome, but not surprising.

This is the sixth month of decline following 22 consecutive months of growth, ... The overall picture in November is one of faster decline in manufacturing activity.

It's weaker than expected due to the decline of inventories, but final demand is quite strong. Basically, it's a strong report despite the weak headline number. Consumption and all domestic demand is firm. Exports are also strong, showing that demand is quite balanced.