Robert Morris
Robert Morris
Minimalist sculptor and conceptual artist who created works of performance and installation art. Known for the body-art poster of himself from 1974 and "Untitled" from 1967 and 1986.
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth9 February 1931
CityKansas City, MO
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I'm not sure that leverage coupled with technology is a natural marriage, ... but certainly technology acquisitions can make sense if the capitalization is appropriate.
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I like the paper group here (especially Bowater). With the weaker dollar, I think paper is going to be a surprising performer here, ... I particularly like the newsprint sectors. I think pricing is a little more advanced in that part of the industry than it is in some of the others.
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Not to take anything away from Duquesne, but I don't think we played very well, ... We weren't in sync and we've got a lot of work to do. We're going to have to go back to the drawing board and start all over.
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If you put clean water into dirty pipes, you have dirty water,
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If you look at the market this year, only a couple groups really performed. The market is not having a strong upward theme.
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It was probably one of the most difficult times. I thought, 'I'm making money, I think I'm doing my job,' but people weren't appreciating it. After a while, the criticism does sting.
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It takes a lot of people getting sick, and going to physicians, and then it also takes the physicians diagnosing the illness and recognizing that it's water-borne, and very often all of those things don't happen.
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They've got very good momentum in their product line right now.
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This is a straight forward story. There's a high probability that they hit their (quarterly results) numbers in the coming quarters. This is not a one or two-year phenomena -- it's something they can extrapolate into the future with world class distribution and product.
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I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.
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All of them are finding the materials to be more expensive, and that puts a squeeze on profits. We are talking about a market that is more price-sensitive today than a year ago, with the interest rates going up.
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These are massive, ocean-going vessels coming out of this port every day. The proposed marina would put small pleasure craft in direct contact with huge vessels.