Stuart Miller
Stuart Miller
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The strength of the national housing market continues to fuel our record bottom-line performance and record second-quarter sales,
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New home sales activity continued to point to strong consumer demand as our new orders increased 24 percent year-over-year. As the industry continues to benefit from favorable market conditions, we continue to strengthen our position in strategic markets through organic and acquisitive growth,
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Even the currently cooling housing conditions will give us an opportunity to perform well into 2007. We've already seen some recovery in the traffic patterns in our major markets.
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We have our own wholly owned products, like the card section and the Virtual Garden; then we have another level that we call our affiliates,
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We were able much like a newspaper would to respond immediately. We were one of the featured memorials on Yahoo.
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The assistant referee was in a better position and saw it was a clear handball. But the referee told him to put his flag down. A decision like that could cost us the title.
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One of the extra benefits of modern tennis is people learn more quickly ... the newer rackets are far more forgiving.
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We have seen significant improvements in the system.
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There has been a slower sales pace in certain markets in which we operate, and price appreciation in these markets has moderated relative to the appreciation experienced in the past few years.
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While we generally don't preannounce our quarterly results, given yesterday's market volatility and given the fact that our Miami corporate office was closed and management was inaccessible because of Hurricane Rita, we felt it prudent to preannounce our third quarter results,
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When people think of death and dying issues, we want them to think of us,
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Thousands and thousands of people came to view the JFK memorial, the Carolyn Bessette memorial, the Lauren memorial,
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We want to keep sports going. Kids have interest and for some that is the reason they stay in school.
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Our strategy, as we have navigated these market conditions, has been to use locally crafted strategies in a measured and orderly fashion to keep inventory levels very low while keeping our home-building machine working.