John Dillon
John Dillon
John Dillonwas an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliamentfor over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. By political disposition Dillon was an advocate of Irish nationalism, originally a follower of Charles Stewart Parnell, supporting land reform and Irish Home Rule...
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This survey reflects that CEOs are more concerned about the weakness in the economy than they were six months ago.
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We completed the first quarter with strong momentum, and we continue to improve our underlying cost structure in a difficult macro environment,
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But the market and economic conditions we are facing require that we further reduce costs within the company, ... We are realigning our resources as necessary to improve our financial results, while continuing our commitment to serve our customers.
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not significantly impacted as the company translates its European earnings to the United States.
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The external environment continues to be very difficult, ... We have continued to reduce our capacity to match demand from our customers, improved our operations and began to realign staff resources to better our financial results.
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We've said all along that bringing together International Paper and Champion makes good sense because of the tremendous opportunities presented by a combined organization.
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Although the economic problems in Southeast Asia continue to affect some of our major businesses, we've made significant progress in completing our restructuring program that was announced last July.
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They're headquartered very close to our headquarters, their businesses fit very well with ours - big printing papers business, an important wood and timber business - they've got a nice, nice position in Brazil, as well as a position in Canada,
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At least 62 low-income countries need both immediate, unconditional debt cancellation and extra aid to meet the U.N. development goals.
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At some point in the future, I think there will be relatively few companies competing on a worldwide basis. From IP's perspective, what we are doing is building a strong leadership position in each of our businesses.
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Our cash and stock offer is far more attractive to Champion shareholders,
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Our capacity management and divestiture efforts, coupled with a rigid financial discipline, are having a favorable impact on our performance and will continue.
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Our merger with Union Camp is going not only well, but well ahead of expectations.
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Market conditions are more favorable than we've seen in some time. Our efficiency and cost-reduction efforts have racked up record savings during the last two years and are on pace to do so again in 1999.