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George Scalise
George Scalise was the former president of the Building Service Employees International Unionwho was convicted of racketeering due to the exposure of labor racketeering by newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for his reporting...
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This region represented 46.6% of the global market for microchips at year end. The largest share of the market is in China, which has become the world's leading manufacturer of electronics products.
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While information technology products will continue to be the largest market sectors for semiconductors, consumer products will be the major growth-drivers in the years ahead,
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There has been stronger-than-expected demand for our products across the board. There is far better inventory management, better capital investment management,
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We expect the modest growth we are experiencing in the first half of the year to continue throughout the remainder of 2002.
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We see very strong, solid demand pattern ahead of us. We're talking about 10 percent compounded annual growth rate between 2005 and 2008.
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While there are lingering concerns about the effects of high energy prices and the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the US, end markets for semiconductors continue to be very strong.
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There is some evidence of inventory accumulation of semiconductors and finished electronic products during the first quarter of 2006. We expect the electronic industry supply chain will respond quickly as it did late in 2004 and that inventories will be in balance by the third quarter.
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We have full confidence they will be implemented and we will be very successful. This is going to be a bipartisan effort.
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Cell phone unit sales increased by 31% from the first quarter of 2005 and ran substantially ahead of expectations. Unit sales are now expected to reach one billion this year.
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China has enacted a number of laws to protect intellectual property, including a law to protect semiconductor layout designs. Enforcement of IP protection laws has been widely recognized as falling short of what is needed to deter violations. In some cases, penalties for violation of IP rights are so light that they are considered to be a routine cost of doing business.
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Semiconductor sales in April are continuing the steady growth exhibited in the first quarter of this year, another sign that the industry is rebounding from 2001,
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We are hopeful that a systematic collection of the penalties meted out for IP violations will pressure those regions within China where the penalties are insufficient to deter counterfeiting.
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June's numbers exceeded our expectations and affirm our forecast for a strong 2000.
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Our forecast released in November calls fourth-quarter sales to be 4.7 percent higher than the third quarter, and with two months of data now in, we are on target to meet that projection.