Bill Evans
Bill Evans
William John "Bill" Evanswas an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a trio setting. Evans' use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today...
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth16 August 1929
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After a particularly volatile year in 2005 for consumer sentiment, we may be entering steadier times in 2006. However, given households' high levels of debt and sensitivity to interest rates, this calm would be dramatically disturbed if interest rate concerns returned.
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Australia's two-speed economy remains intact with consumer spending subdued and housing in a downswing. By contrast, business investment is surging.
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Of course, the positives for consumers were considerable.
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Negative factors for consumers must include the 4.2 percent collapse in the share market in the days leading up to the survey. Consumers may also be somewhat frustrated the petrol prices have not come back further.
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With debt servicing ratios at record highs, house prices likely to remain soft and petrol prices stressing some household budgets a sharp resurgence in consumer spending seems unlikely,
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It appears that after a particularly volatile year in 2005 for consumer sentiment, we may be entering steadier times in 2006.
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Ordinarily it would have been surprising that consumer sentiment did not increase for a fourth consecutive month, given the range of encouraging economic news.
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Economists are interested in why 70 percent makes it. It's surprising to us that so much makes it.
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The biggest story for us is our continued growth at 5 o'clock.
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I want to see us rebound the ball better and execute better on the offensive and defensive ends. We have to execute to be successful. We can't go out and have a bad day and win.
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I want to play as good as I can, not necessarily as different. I am not interested in consciously changing the essence of my music. I would rather have it reveal itself progressively as I play. Ultimately, what counts is its essential quality, anyway, and differences vanish in a short time.
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I'm just glad to be home next week. I'm not going to guarantee a win because that would be silly, but it will just be nice to have all those things that home brings.
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Anytime you play schools from higher leagues, they're preparing us for our league. We've played some really good teams. I would like to play those teams at home sometimes for my own feelings that if we could do that, we could be competitive with them. Playing at home and not having to travel is a plus.
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We look to 2007 for the next move when the current global move for higher interest rates is likely to be reversed and Australia will play its part.