The president called for a bipartisan commission on Social Security in his State of the Union address, which I recommended he do last year -- but if he were serious about it, he would have left Social Security privatization out of his budget. |
The Private Toys collection continues to reflect a European sensibility but we've given it a classier look without losing any of the raw sensuality that has made the line so popular. The initial response to the new look has been overwhelming. |
The problem is it's not the most elastic revenue source. It's not heading in the right direction in terms of keeping up with costs, inflation, additional responsibilities. But it's certainly better than taking money out of the education fund. |
The problem is, it's very hard to have all three. Only the cities that win these battles for development accomplish this. And when you have as many cities as St. Louis County does, it's just not realistic that everyone's going to be a winner. |
The problem that all large pharmaceuticals have now is they have no new products, no new blockbuster products that growth investors are looking for, ... It's looking even worse for '06-'07. So most of the potential now is coming from biotech. |
The project ultimately succeeded because we had the good fortune of working with a progressive owner that was determined to advance these principles in New York City. Environmental sustainability is a product of that holistic way of thinking. |
The projects in Oakland that we've built have been the most diverse projects of any place in the Bay Area. At our Durant project, 35 percent of the buyers were African American, about 30 percent were Asian, and the rest were white and Latino. |
The provost has to act as expeditiously as possible in order to improve the situation. He will provide general guidance, but a dean is needed to pull the solution into focus. It would not be fair to students to delay this decision any longer. |
The purpose of studying the new sciences is simple... We want to learn to understand war through the most powerful means available... to encompass the ideas contained in quantum mechanics, nonlinear systems, and chaos and complexity theories. |
The question is how you reduce the number of bases [the terrorists have] and the size of the sea in which they swim. What something like the Iraq war does is increase the number of bases you have to deal with and the sea they have to swim in. |
The question to ask is: Who will care if Microsoft misses the date again. I've been saying since the (March) delay that from a sales perspective, January might as be July, that January release builds in room to move the date again, if needed. |
The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rates in the last 15 to 20 years, ... Its a warning signal, and its certainly a sign to be careful about energy use going into the winter season. |
The rate of spending is less than you would have expected given the typical business cycle. Companies have made a lot of money, but if you look at equipment and software spending, this cycle is below the pace of the past three or four cycles. |
The rationale was in order to take advantage of technology and provide greater flexibility for institutions to contact prospective student athletes. On the flip side of things, for the prospects' well-being, they can choose to respond or not. |
The reaction in the market has a lot to do with the perception that Katrina is a reason for the Fed to pause its tightening. People definitely want to see when the Fed is going to be done. That has been the big stumbling block for the market. |