Statistically, we are not impressive on paper. We're just not. This team, I'm so proud of them because they've really taken advantage of their strengths. And we have weaknesses, but they haven't killed us -- yet. |
Stock selection will be a fundamental strategy to guarantee profitability of the portfolios. There will likely be an increase in volatility, so it will be important to have a very pro-active portfolio management. |
Stocks with significant foreign exposure should help to support stocks. If the dollar continues to fall and commodity prices remain strong, then earnings are likely to be stronger than investors currently expect. |
Stopping at the curb signals drivers that you intend to cross. If you see a car, wait until it goes by. Then look left, right and left again until no cars are coming. Keep looking for cars while you are crossing. |
Strength was broad-based across all retailing groups except the drugstore segment. Drugstores, hurt by weakness in pharmacy (comparable sales), were the only major retailing segment to fall short of expectations. |
Strong U.S. economic data will put a brake on the dollar's downward trend, which was triggered by the Fed minutes. The data could re-ignite expectations the Fed will raise interest rates at least twice this year. |
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Students with learning and attention challenges have been entering higher education in much increased numbers over the last 10 years. We've seen our alumni go on to graduate school in increasingly larger numbers. |
Sun and other vendors still see the developer world in a relatively narrow sense, focusing on content that promotes their own products and technologies directly and not mentioning other products and technologies, |
Sure I'd like to get them a win, but we basically started from scratch and have a lot of girls who never even played the game before. So I'm really concentrating on teaching them the basics of the game right now. |
Sure, these families would like us to make [adequate yearly progress]. But let's be realistic. They're looking at their children, ... But on the other side of it, they do want their kids coming from good schools. |
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. |
Suspension of negotiations is certainly one alternative, and I expect that the Serbian government will take this message very seriously. Serbia has to chose now between its nationalist past and a European future. |
Switzerland are not inferior to anyone. They played well against England. With a bit more luck, they could have scored early against England. It was very close and at 11 against 11 I though they played very well. |
Technicians don't have to look at maps, don't have to call the customers for directions and don't get lost. When you are talking about 11,000 technicians, even if you save them 10 minutes a day, it is a huge ROI. |