The case is nonsense. It's a political folly and has been from the outset. It's part of the government's campaign to try to demonize the tobacco manufacturers, and it has failed. |
The trend in mergers and acquisitions has been much stronger than we anticipated, and I can't see any factor that will turn it down. This is very positive for stocks. |
Their Spenser, Robert Urich, is big, graceful, good-looking and young (a runner-up in the Robert B. Parker look-alike contest). |
There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce. |
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!' |
They have been over the last few years, compared to other competitors like Philips, slow to restructure. Now they're having to bite the bullet. |
They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed. |
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely. |
Trust me, I didn't add any points for Ms. Samson's personal presentation. |
Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon. |
We canceled the Fourth of July concerts. Every year that was a money-loser. If someone had come along and sponsored it, that would have been fine, but year after year it was a money-loser. |
We had a very good 2005. |
We had to overcome that hurdle. |
We think it will be an improvement. |
We think someone gave him some clothes and he's been communicating with some people. We took some things off of him - he still had the blade that he used to escape. |