Everyone knows that during the 1970s the Japanese yen traded at 380 yen to the dollar and then appreciated to 110 yen per dollar. But Japan has all along enjoyed a trade surplus with the United States and their surplus went from US$10 billion at the time to over US$80 billion. |
Everyone thinks they can play with everybody and they all get along great, but when you're on the course, you have to know the guy pretty well because you're not going to win every single time you play, and you have to be able to say the right things and have some fun with it. |
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Everything is so effortless for him, ... It doesn't look like he's running. I can throw it as far as I can and he catches up to it with no problem. He's a unique guy. He can run unique routes. Every day, I see something that's new and different, and it's something that I like. |
Everything priced the same was a great thing to do in the beginning of the market. Now it's a good time to move into a tiered market. This whole landscape is evolving. We will be more seeing more of a price differentiation between more desirable stuff and less desirable stuff. |
Expectations of the Bank of Japan raising interest rates this year, as shown by climbing bonds yields, may slow down the outpouring of Japanese institutional investors' money. That will also bring about an unwinding of yen carry trades by foreign investors, supporting the yen. |
Eyes are on you when you do go out in the public, and I want to minimize that. I just try to be with the family and not make any decisions you don't want to, ... Just being with them because I don't see them often, just once a week, was great just to see them and be with them. |
First and foremost it is the company, it's these executives that put these numbers together, it's not the auditors. So the people who are actually in the kitchen, cooking the books, stirring the stew, so to speak, are these executives, and there is no excuse for what happened. |
First we want to win our district. We want to go undefeated in district. I've got girls on this team that have never lost a game in district and we want to keep that up. Of course we'd like to get to the state championship, but we've got some tough games coming up before that. |
Florida did a great job defensively. They got out and contested everything. They didn't give us any easy looks. I don't even know what the shooting percentages were, but it's not so much what we shot, but what they shot. We usually can overcome an off night by playing defense. |
Florida is wide open, ... With Bob Graham being in the race, virtually every one of the movers and shakers were committed to him. Now that he's out of the race, the race is wide open and the convention will basically be the kickoff for anyone of them who wants to compete here. |
Following the proposed acquisition of Siebel by Oracle many existing Siebel employees may be concerned about their career prospects, ... We want to offer them an alternative to an environment of declining commissions, confused customers and uncertainty around career viability. |
For 15 years the Government of Burma has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the situation is getting worse, ... In fact, the situation in Burma is much more severe compared to other countries in which the Security Council has chosen to act in recent years. |
For 80 years, we've been serving the community in a piecemeal fashion through the various employers surrounding the area. We spent a lot of time [prior to the] new charter turning folks away because we weren't able to serve them ... because we had a rather restrictive charter. |
For a company that now has the status of being added to the S&P 500, they need to tighten up and do it in a hurry. They should be offering financial guidance, which will reduce volatility for the shares. The shares will be in a lot of retirement funds. They need to tighten up. |