2005 was an important year for the Company. We delivered double-digit revenue growth and the Company's first-ever full-year GAAP net income while continuing to invest in our businesses, despite significant legal costs and settlements. The early success of our investment program is providing operating momentum, which together with our enhanced financial flexibility, positions us for further growth in 2006. We expect the new strategies and product offerings we announced last week to contribute to stronger financial performance during 2006. Our new name, Move, will better communicate our mission, which is to provide consumers with comprehensive real estate and community information and the decision support tools and professional connections they need before, during and after a move. |
He is excited about the challenge and looking forward to it. He's been training very hard. He wanted to run here. He had heard about the course from other Ethiopians who have run here. |
I had the fish on a rope at the end of the dock, and I told John to pull the rope up because at the end was a fish we've been fishing for since we were kids, the one we've been dreaming of catching. When he pulled that rope up, he pulled it ever so slowly, like an inch at a time. And there on the end was that 20-pounder, and it no longer was a dream, but something we both could see and touch. |
I joke that if Donna doesn't know the answer, there probably isn't one. And that's not far from wrong. Donna's extra special to L.A. Reynolds and to her customers. |
I talked to pros like Shaw Grigsby and Roland Martin after John won that year, and they all agreed that it probably was the first time a guy who fished in his first pro tournament ever won over $100,000 at it. I wasn't surprised John won at Mead, though, because he always fishes well there. We always say it's tougher to fish in San Diego tournaments because you end up fishing the clock, people and in such a small area of fish that we're lucky to get our spots. At Mead, unless someone is following you, you get big parts of the lake to yourself. |
I think we are going to have a pretty active few months until we start into the summer rain patterns. |
I've seen some big fish at Dixon. I go up there on my lunch hour and just sit and watch and I've seen several up to 18 or maybe 20 pounds. |
If the students aren't here, they aren't able to learn what is taught. |
If they held an election tomorrow in Ethiopia, they'd have a new prime minister. |
If we get the rains, the water will be stirred up and it will be tough, but without the rains the sight fishing will be great. It's just all about the weather. |
If you're going to play, you might as well play the best. I'd rather jump in the fire right away and go from there. |
In a normal season, we aren't dry from one end of the state to another, so we have the ability to shift our resources. The key right now is to be working prevention, to keep the human-caused fires down until we get into the lightning season ... or we could get overwhelmed. |
It requires a lot of horsepower to tear [an application request] apart, make decisions about it and then do something. |
It's one of those balancing acts, those judgment calls where you want to provide your constituents with information that may be useful to them, but you try to do that without being criticized as being too political. |
Jomo likes it here. He wanted to come back after he won, but one year he had visa difficulty and the other he was injured. He loves the course. It suits him to a 'T.' He likes the hills. |