Jim Sullivan
Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan was an English musician, whose career started in 1958...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 February 1941
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Hypothetically speaking, if the gasoline crunch forces prices up to $4 a gallon in the next three months, that would be a pretty big hit to the economy and to the consumer,
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I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.
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Certainly, the degree of strength through August is not sustainable; we'll get a much weaker number in September. But the third quarter as a whole will still show 5 to 6 percent consumer spending growth, even if we get a negative number in September.
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I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.
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Kevin's times this year are just a shade off of what Jesse Bentley used to run, ... I think he'll have a really good year.
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Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.
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I don't think the holiday season will be as good as last year. Right now people are facing higher gasoline prices. As winter arrives, the higher cost of natural gas will push up utility bills.
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Caroline and Britni are going to be right there in the top five in a lot of league races,
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I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.
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If housing continues to cool, some weakening will occur in the economy.
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I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years.
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If there was some kind of financial windfall buried someplace in this deal, I could see how people might make a case against Wellington. But there isn't any. . . . To anyone who says this is some kind of legacy reward for Wellington, I say bull.
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In the whole post-war rebound story, the first part has come through -- we've clearly seen a bounce in consumer confidence. The next key step is business activity measures improving, including employment indicators. Hopefully we will see weekly jobless claims coming down soon -- in the next three-to-four weeks.
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In our forecast, we see consumer spending slowing a little bit in the fourth quarter to 3.1 percent from 3.8 percent for the same period last year, ... The rationale is that as the housing market slows , there'll be a cooling effect in the home wealth effect and the fluctuating energy prices will also have some drag on spending in the months ahead.