Pete Peterson
Pete Peterson
Douglas Brian "Pete" Petersonis an American politician and diplomat. He served as a United States Air Force pilot during the Vietnam War and spent over six years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese army after his plane was shot down. He returned to Hanoi when he became the first United States Ambassador to Vietnam in 1997. He was an ambassador until July 2001, after which he devoted himself to philanthropic work...
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But that should be accentuated as we move toward the third and fourth calendar quarters, as 1X starts to become a real part of the sales,
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This today was a real step and what I felt is a maturity in this relationship,
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We'd be gone for three or four months at a time, coming back and retrieving all that back pay every time. We bought the whole town, sometimes.
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No one came to us and gave us a choice they just came to us and said here it is. You have to take it you can't do anything about it. And you're going to have to pay lots more money for it. And we don't think that's fair.
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No one blow is going to be terminal, ... But this is another very serious one. All this does is add to the increasing loss of confidence in our systems.
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I would characterize the meeting as very cordial, very comfortable, ... It (the exchange) was rather free-wheeling, without reading from notes. It was incredibly comfortable.
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We're just trying to keep our base invigorated and charging and continuing to move forward to fight annexation and this is the best way we know how to do it.
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What we're against is forced annexations. The picketing isn't against Mitch or the state, but to call attention to what the GOP (membership of the Fishers council) is doing.
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The interesting thing there, though, is that they did cut back on sales of lower margin phones. That helped them get the higher operating margin, but it did cost them some revenue.
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The cooperation in the fullest possible accounting is excellent and we need to give the Vietnamese credit for having stayed the course on that,
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EMC just didn't have the product set to address this market before.
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(That relationship would) bring stability to a region and to a country that has been obviously destabilized for decades and decades.
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They showed some improvement on operating margins in handsets, which is what everybody was looking at.
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This is still a work in progress. Any changes will require a change in people's paradigms. This is just the first step.