[NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and league GM will be dining at a renowned Italian restaurant in midtown New York tonight.] This really isn't a 'meeting' as much as an informal get-together dinner, ... There is no agenda. I imagine people will ask questions about where we are in the process, and we will certainly provide answers. |
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[Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams -- he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times -- and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list.] I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before. |
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[The fifth Puerto Rican to play in the NBA, Arroyo, 24, had an excused absence on the third day of training camp so he could attend a reception in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month held at the White House. The highlight came when President Bush thanked Arroyo for attending.] Honestly, ... I was sort of surprised he knew my name. |
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A distant memory. Many moons ago. Now, we're looking forward. It's the future. We're living it now. We're in the moment. It's a whole another ballgame. It's a whole another perspective. It's this year. It's about what we have. It's about pioneering back to new things and getting ourselves back to winning things like Super Bowls. |
A good district attorney can indict a ham sandwich if he wants to, and Mr. Earle understands that, ... The accusations harm as much as the convictions. Because all you have right now is accusations, and we're having an interview on a national television show about accusations. So they're obviously harmful or it wouldn't be news. |
A laptop computer controlled the system and logged the data. While we looked primarily at wireless phones, we also discovered that emissions from other portable electronic devices were problematic. We feel that passenger use of portable electronic devices on aircraft should continue to be limited for the safety of all concerned. |
A lot of my guys that you really don't know about that will dictate how things play out at the end of the year were really hot today. Our fourth and fifth swims were really solid across the board, and I had some huge 200 free swims right out the gate. That's going to make life a lot easier for us having some guys fill that role. |
A lot of what SOA is about, what's fundamentally different about SOA, is that it's about defining what services mean to the business. Business and technology together need to map the enterprise. That's fundamentally not a technology activity, although the techies can help there by pushing the conversation in the right direction. |
Acts of vandalism takes budget money that could otherwise be used to improve an area to repair existing facilities that have been damaged. It causes extra work for Department of Conservation staff and takes department funds, which are provided through fees and tax dollars from Missouri citizens, away from other project an areas. |
Advertisers could care less about the media as long as it works. They have a budget and they want to reach people. But these are seismic changes in terms of traditional media being able to maintain their growth rates. Most of the traditional media are public companies under tremendous pressure to increase growth year after year. |
After a disappointing three-year downturn, we are at the beginning of a substantial semiconductor industry up-cycle, in our view. As the use of semiconductors is shifting from PC-centric products to Internet infrastructure and wireless communications such as cellular phones, the industry is enjoying a communications driven boom. |
After the bubble, the whole sector really started to crash and burn. But just like there was excess on the upside, there was excess on the downside, and what we're seeing now is that there are some real companies addressing very large markets that are now, for the first time, reaching scale and beginning to get to profitability. |