Companies are much more nimble today. They're cutting costs, but then they grow in new areas, so layoffs continue at the same time as job growth. |
Companies came through and wanted to buy the location, but for lease negotiations, things always fell off to the side. It went through this time. |
Companies in business services and outsourcing, we believe provide nice secular growth and have some resilience to a generally difficult economy, |
Companies may be reporting good results, and in macroeconomic terms, we are not badly off. But we are suffering from volatility outside (Brazil). |
Companies that can consistently and substantially increase their dividends year after year have good solid business plans and solid growth rates. |
Competition sometimes will make you sharper than you believe you are. Anybody who watched those games, you could tell it was serious competition. |
Complexity is one major barrier to compliance, and efforts to make filing simpler will remove barriers and allow more people to follow the rules. |
Compromises had to be made, including the division of the ministries. I think we come out of this initial round of talks looking very successful. |
Condoms used to be a guy thing, a guy's choice, really. Now our young ladies say, 'I want you to use a condom,' or they carry condoms themselves. |
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Congress has spoken that real-estate activities [that are] financial services are allowed and ought to be regulated. The Realtors are just wrong. |
Consider what kind of nation we would be if hundreds of scandals involving state and local government still lay locked in the mouths of citizens. |
Considering the fact we have been thin or illiquid in some areas in the market it wouldn't surprise me if there had been some hedge fund selling, |
Considering the fact we have been thin or illiquid in some areas in the market it wouldn't surprise me if there had been some hedge fund selling. |
Consumer spending, which [has] kept the economy afloat, should decline in the third quarter and lead us into a formal, albeit shallow, recession. |