Paul O'Neill
Paul O'Neill
Five-time All-Star right fielder won four World Series titles with the New York Yankees.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth25 February 1963
CountryUnited States of America
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We are very pleased with our earnings performance for the first half of the year, since we have been able to more than offset a 16 percent drop in aluminum prices on the (London Metals Exchange) since the beginning of 1998, ... We look forward to the addition of Alumax in the next quarter and have been hard at work with Alumax employees to make the acquisition very beneficial to Alcoa customers and shareholders.
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The U.S. economy has the potential to grow at 3 or 3.5 percent real growth for the indefinite future,
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to assure ourselves that their problems were not going to get translated into larger problems for the U.S. and the world capital markets.
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Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.
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I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
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I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.
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This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
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If we're going to have a tax reduction ... I don't know why we wouldn't want it now, ... It won't hurt. We'll get ready for the next round of expansion in our economy.
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We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.
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We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.
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In our history we have seen times when there is a disconnect between the stock market and the fundamental productive power of our economy, ... The reality is that our economy remains solid, and our recovery is well under way.
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I think ... our economy will rebound into reasonable rates of growth as we move into next year, ... So I am optimistic.
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But he just sat back in his chair, ... His attitude was, 'I said this during the campaign, and whatever I said in the campaign must be right.'