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Dogs play an important role in our lives, and deserve to be protected from individuals and industries that would do them harm.
Doing it as well as we did is the legacy.
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Consumer spending has remained relatively robust into 2006.
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Consumers need an uplift, not a kick in the teeth. If we don't get them spending soon, policy makers are going to face bigger problems than higher housing prices.
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Consumers may be wobbly, owing to high energy prices, a vulnerable housing sector and increasingly uncertain medical and pension benefits, but there is nothing like the whiff of solid job growth to keep them on their feet.
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Consumers in Sonora know Arizona Mills. They have been to it. They love it. They know exactly what you are talking about.
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Consumers deserve the right to know what's in their food - and obviously, most people want that choice. It's hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us.
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Consumers are out there spending and keeping the economy alive. We see dollar strength heading into next year.
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Consumers are becoming part of the system, taking over functions that marketers used to do. They are not just on the receiving end of things anymore.
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Consumers are always concerned about the economy but the key is whether they are predisposed to increasing caution when it comes to spending. I think today's report demonstrates that the hurricanes had an ambiguous affect on spending.
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Consumer caution was shaping up as the major domestic risk to the Australian economic outlook in 2006. Good labor market outcomes were always going to be the best antidote to this caution.
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Consumer caution persists and a weak housing sector remains a drag on overall services sector activity.
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Construction was booming last year. The market came back strong.
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Confidence has returned to the sector. Earnings momentum has been pretty good. I don't see the rally fading.