Wal-Mart's news is a very big deal, ... There's no doubt that a significant number of consumers are shopping paycheck to paycheck. Most are also waiting for price reductions because they know that the support of another tax rebate or tax reduction is unlikely. So saying that the consumer is still cautious is a good indicator that the holiday season will only be moderately better than last year. |
We all feel for him. It's tragic that that happened at that time. It's a bad situation for him to be in the situation he is in now. But I'm just down here to keep things in line. He put a good program in place, so I'm just trying to carry it out right now. Hopefully, he gets healthy and he gets back down here and is able to carry on the program. I'm just keeping the seat warm for him right now. |
We all feel pressure, but it's different this year. Ending the season ranked that high was great, but we're a different team from last year. Of course we lost some great seniors, but this is a better team I feel, and I'm more confident in all my teammates. We also haven't been paying too much attention to all the rankings. We are taking one team at a time and having them have to worry about us. |
We applaud those lawmakers, from both sides of the aisle, who have demanded the truth from the government. The rule of law has been broken, and Congress and the public have a right to know. Effective and public oversight can be done without compromising state secrets. The administration must stop using national security as a blanket reason to keep their illegal activities hidden in the shadows. |
We are confident that we will be victorious and at the same time will continue to innovate at a faster pace than the rest of the industry. The Vega chip is a great example. We've been in the market for only eight to 10 months with Vega 1, and we already have working samples of Vega 2 in the lab... We want to bring the pace of innovation of the graphics hardware industry to enterprise computing. |
We are deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, ... Starbucks has a long tradition of striving to bring together people and communities where we do business. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and many others impacted by this natural disaster; our prayers and thoughts are with all the families who have lost loved ones. |
We are excited to work with TI to continue advancing the mobile gaming architecture. This collaboration will help enable developers to show best-of-breed implementations on an expanding range of Windows Mobile-based phones while enabling them to be more effective in their porting investments. This ultimately brings a wider range of new quality titles to consumers and mobile operator ecosystems. |
We are in 36 cities right now. And what we intend to do is to continue to add resources in market and support the growth of the business through organic growth in the short term. We had some success with acquisitions in the past. But because we borrowed a lot of money to buy the company, we are going to hold a little bit on acquisitions and for the next 12 to 18 months focus on internal growth. |
We are seeing lot of new lighting innovations; some of them are allowed and some not. My understanding is [Mercedes] made a good case of allowing these brake lights to be used on a trial basis. Presumably they argued that flashing lights are just as visible, or perhaps more visible than regular lights. Whether they really are better remains to be seen, but we have faith in Mercedes engineering. |
We believe our market leadership in the SIEM market is due to the differences in our Enterprise Security Management software's architecture as compared to competitors. Our architecture includes advanced data collection capabilities, as well as broad device support and vendor neutrality. This enables us to scale to meet the needs of the largest enterprises and most demanding government agencies. |
We benefit from foreign direct investment. Many Americans are employed by foreign companies with plants in the United States, for example in the automobile industry. So, trade is a two way street. I think, it is important to protect Americans who lose their jobs, or whose jobs come under pressure from international trade. But, I think, we need to be careful not to embrace economic isolationism. |
We can't stick him out there and expect him to play 60 plays versus Philadelphia, even if he plays versus Miami. Even if he was 100 percent healthy, had never been hurt, had never had surgery, that's a lot of snaps for a 32-year-old defensive end. It's a lot of snaps for any defensive end. You try to roll those guys through. I think he'll be ready to go. It certainly appears that way right now. |
We confirm that we were approached to look into the possibility of helping the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to finance the importation of fuel for that country. No further details are available at this stage. Zimbabwe is a major trading partner of South Africa, and cross-border financing of this kind takes place on a regular basis in a wide variety of product areas, from maize to railway equipment. |
We didn't just take an emotional response, we [realized] our situation, used theory and practice, and engaged them to read and study how their people are effected by various situations. Intellect guided what we where doing, regardless of education level. Black berets and leather jackets were not what we were about. We were about transformation and consistency to benefit them, not suppress them. |
We feel -- and probably Chivas feels the same way too -- you definitely get punished for your mistakes. Good teams make the ball bounce their way and sometimes we get frustrated with it not happening for us. We've had a couple games where we've said, 'Nothing bad is going to happen, we're going to make our own breaks,' but to actually say that and then play that way, it doesn't always work out. |