Consumers will come into the dealership very well informed on what they should pay for the new car, negotiate on hundreds over the price of the car, then go into the financing department and automatically pay a couple thousand for an extended warranty without knowing anything. |
Corel is targeting the small-business market, which typically has 20 employees or less. This is a market that Microsoft has had trouble reaching because it's fragmented and has diverse business needs. Product loyalty is not as great and cost drives a lot of purchase decisions. |
Cree has focused significant sales efforts during the past several years toward the large and dramatically growing LED community in Asia. Cree Asia- Pacific is now investing in a new headquarters facility and expert personnel to deepen Cree's commitment to its Asian customers. |
Customers simply look around, if we raise a rate, we are basically chasing our customer to the cable company, we are chasing our customer to take out their wire line phone and go totally wireless. So it doesn't make a lot of sense from a marketing standpoint for us to do that. |
Dale Hunter, in my opinion, has given us the best effort on the floor the last two games. He has given as a great effort out there, and has deserved the right to start. And I told him he will get that start in the next game. Who those other four guys will be? We will find out. |
December 7th, 1941, was not just a day of infamy. In many ways it was a day of discovery for America and for the world. It changed us, it hurt us, it made us stronger -- as did September 11th. And that is why we must never forget the events and sacrifices of that terrible day. |
Defense is what keeps us in games. We're just scrappy. We have to lead the state in floor burns. We don't have the biggest kids in the world. But they're athletes. They're quicker than most of the bigger post players we've played and they're quick enough to contest every shot. |
Deng engineered the most dramatic economic transformation of the 20th century, maybe ever. He changed China from a moribund, communist economy to an expansive, bull, rapidly growing mixed economy, with Marxism and market elements both present there. And it's a dramatic change. |
Despite rising visitor arrivals and visitor days, the number of room nights sold have actually remained flat, with higher occupancy rates driven primarily by a reduction in supply due to conversions and out-of-service rooms that are currently under renovation or redevelopment. |
Despite the payroll employment number being higher than expected, the fact that average hourly wages were so small means that there are not a lot of wage pressures, not a lot of demands to add new workers and, therefore, not a lot to worry the (Federal Reserve) in this report. |
Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. |
Didn't everyone want to write in Paris cafes amid the clatter of coffee cups and the hubbub of voices, and spend their summer in Rome in complicated but apparently harmonious foursomes? Who wanted monogamy when one could have freedom and stability, love affairs and commitment? |
Dobbs is coming along. It's not easy to go down and play every day and come up and sit and still hit. He has done that. Now he's being used against right-handers, but at some point he's got to show he can hit left-handers after not seeing them for a while. Those are the steps. |
Dropping the AOL from its corporate name is their version of joining a federal witness protection program where you're given a new identity. But playing the name game won't help the company. If there is such a thing as conglomerate bad karma, AOLTW is getting what it deserves. |
Due to rapid consolidation in the media and telecommunications industries, GM is now considering alternative strategic transactions involving Hughes and other participants in those industries, ... Any such transaction might involve the separation of Hughes from General Motors. |