S. Hughes
S. Hughes
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We are committed to continued expense management and strategies to improve productivity in 2006. Execution in these two important areas should contribute to the achievement of our goal of improving operating margins by 50 to 150 basis points for the year.
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The BLM feels very strongly that it's important to have a viable livestock industry operating in the rural western United States, ... that public land to subsidize operations to stay in business.
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Two thousand five was a great year. Our investment in Hub's sales culture and the commitment of our people enabled us to post organic growth in the face of declining insurance rates. Our acquisition team continued to excel in identifying and closing attractive opportunities. In addition, we achieved our goal of increasing operating margins, recording a one-percentage-point improvement for the quarter and the year.
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Watching her in Salt Lake was so great I watched her work so hard, and to see a dream come true was just great. Now that Im actually on the ice, and shes up in the stands, I know how she feels, and I guess she knows how I feel.
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We're so young and we're still growing up,
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We're getting to the year-end period and stocks are starting to drift. But the pullback so far has been orderly,
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We're going to offer them contracts. They are really important players for us, and we've very hopeful in all three cases of getting them signed up and resolved.
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What we're gonna see now and probably for the next few days is what we saw yesterday, a little technical bounce from oversold conditions,
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We find evidence that natural selection is, in fact, maintaining those 16 genes. In fact, the human Y hasn't lost any genes over the past 6 million years.
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United pushed us back after the break, but they didn't have any clear chances. The tie's still open, so we're happy.
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We were bailing out water until 1 a.m. and pumping out the basement. I can't figure out why everyone else pays city taxes but mine are four or five times higher because I have to spend $4,000 every four years to fix my house. I thought taxes fixed problems like these.
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We want the kids to learn about working on yachts, crewing them, marine electronics, boat building and design, interior design and engine repair. Since we have many brokers in the area, we will even have people teach them how to sell yachts. There are so many areas they can pursue.
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We are pleased with the results for the fourth quarter. We achieved record revenue and finished the year by signing an important patent licensing agreement with AMD for which payments will begin in 2006.
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Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....