Steve Baker
Steve Baker
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We expect holiday sales for consumer electronics to be OK. Last year was such as a good year that the big gains maybe aren't sustainable.
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There's a huge amount of demand defined by lower prices and growth in broadband and wireless networks. Consumers in the U.S. are adding PCs to their home inventory and finding new and different ways to use them.
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I think you'll see companies like HP and Compaq diversify their consumer product lines to take advantage of all the digital technologies that are migrating from the consumer electronic side of the business, into the computer side of the business.
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Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and even Sony to some extent are the companies out there leading the convergence in the stores of computer products and consumer electronics products,
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These attractions can open in six months, but it's questionable whether there will be any tourists there by then. It's going to be years before the New Orleans tourist industry comes back. Once engineers get inside a lot of those buildings, they'll discover damage that wasn't visible. A lot of buildings will have to be torn down or completely rebuilt.
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They advertised that if you gave them $250 a month upfront, that your money would end up making $10,000 a month,
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Sales in the first-half of this year have been pretty strong. But one of the biggest issues is the tough year-over-year comparisons.
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At this point in time, it is in the best interests of the association for me to pursue new opportunities in my professional career. I have no doubt as to the organization's continued success.
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You have to question whether it's legal for the state, in essence, to take away benefits from a pension system that people have been paying into, where they've been promised, with nothing in return - not a negotiated reduction, nothing.
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You can get PC's with DVD burners in them for under $1,000 and DVD recorders for between $350 to $500.
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We've gone out and leased diesel generators in an effort to restart our line. We hope to have it back up and running by this weekend.
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From the PC side this year, we'll see a lot of commercial notebooks with the Napa launch, We'll hear a lot more about notebooks with wireless WAN built into them. That's most certainly a crossover technology.
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More and more of the scam artists we deal with are outside the United States. It's especially a problem with the Internet, ... because there really is an international component to it.
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With some of the refineries now shut down in the Houston area and their workers evacuated, we are pulling from operations east of the area,