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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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.
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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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Prices on several of our key products have started to move up in the U.S. and some of our major Asian markets are beginning to recover from the economic problems of last year, ... Overall, business has clearly improved, and we are optimistic that the price increases we announced will be fully implemented during the second quarter.
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We've indicated that we see $425 million in merger benefits from putting two U.S. organizations together, ... That's somewhat different than with UPM, of course; they're headquartered in Finland, and they will not see the same kind of merger benefits that we will, and merger benefits are important in acquisitions and mergers.
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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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As the buildings were modified through the years, they were not efficiently sealed for the control required in an air conditioned 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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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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My job now is to keep the nucleus of the side for next season.
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Nicky repeatedly stressed the value of advanced planning, preparation, and attention to detail. In addition to telling us some great stories, he validated the things we do already, gave us some great tips on how to improve our game and, most importantly, taught us a lot about making pace notes. Several of the the things he described came into play this weekend.
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Nevertheless, the world economic environment is continuing to pressure our business even as we move into a seasonally stronger part of the year.
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Now that the merger is completed and we have had a closer look into Champion's businesses, we are even more optimistic about the opportunities this acquisition will provide,
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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.