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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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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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The biggest surprise is that the increase in energy cost didn't impact us at all.
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Strong competition contributed to declining prices for semiconductors, which resulted in nominal growth on higher unit sales in July,
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Strong holiday season sales of consumer products such as cell phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players drove record sales of semiconductors in November.
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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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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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Doubling the basic research funding over 10 years is a huge move because that's what needs to get done to get the pump primed.
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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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Continued steady growth across the industry is exhibited in May chip sales and, as announced in our forecast last month, we expect the industry to close the second quarter with growth of 4.7 percent.
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The tragic events of September 11 may slightly dampen sales for the month of September due to short-term logistical issues; however, we are still confident that we will see sequential quarterly growth commencing in the December quarter.
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The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories.
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The sales increase was dominated by a record 82.4 percent sales rise in the DRAM market, with essentially flat sales in other product areas as forecasted,
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As far as the biggest surprise goes, it would have to be that the increase in energy costs did not impact demand at all, ... When we put our forecast together a year ago. we were quite conservative and expected demand to be flat.
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As expected, the semiconductor industry should close out 2002 with modest but sustained overall growth,