The fourth quarter capped a year of significant improvement for Teradyne. Throughout 2005, we had solid sequential growth in sales and bookings, strong fourth quarter profit performance in both our semiconductor test and non-semiconductor test businesses, and a much-improved balance sheet. |
They get the stunning thought that, 'Oh my God, I might live to be 80 or 90 and there's more to life than 'party 'til you puke.' |
They're not real glamorous things, but schools need some relief to those major issues. |
This is a pro-Democrat, pro-Republican effort. |
We all believe it's important to have well-educated children. Those are the areas we want to focus on. |
We need to get more physical with them because you can't just let them get comfortable. We have to make everything they do harder for them. If we can do that and put together a solid 90 minutes, we can win this game and the series. |
While Connection Systems has been part of Teradyne for more than 30 years, the long term strategic direction of that business and the rest of Teradyne has been diverging, |
You have to sit down with kids at ages 6, 7, 8 and start to inoculate them against this insanity by having these awkward conversations about what they might see. Parents have to get to these kids first ? not last. |
[Children often] rise to some challenge ... They're doing 110% and there is no such thing as 110%. They're at a deficit and it will burn them out. |
[He] called me the next morning before I got on my flight and said he was eager to work with me, to get me out there and start practicing, |