It's one more tool in the economic development tool box that we employ to ensure that Orlando remains competitive for new business locations and expansions.
Quotes about expansions (16 Quotes)
After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
Modeling a relationship between economic and commercial market indicators, as well as market trends and sentiment, will provide us with a new tool in assessing market behavior in the major commercial real estate sectors. It is being designed as an index to provide early signals of turning points between expansions and slowdowns in commercial real estate activity.
Despite above average market expansions through the first quarter of 2006, the office sector held its ground as demand nearly matched new supply. The amount of space that came online during the current quarter matched last year's record-setting quarterly average, and was well above the nearly one-half million square feet quarterly average posted during the past decade.
Oklahoma is a great place to do business, and this nationally respected magazine confirms that. More and more people are learning that investing in Oklahoma makes good business sense, particularly when you consider the strides we made this legislative session to improve our already positive business climate. Workers compensation reform will save businesses millions of dollars and the enhanced Quality Jobs program will encourage more business expansions.
Transportation firms reported continuing economic weakness. While 2006 is likely to be a positive year for the Oklahoma economy due to an improving telecommunications sector and expansions in business service firms, the closing of GM operations in Oklahoma City will produce some fairly negative economic consequences.
These expansions represent a significant portion of the estimated 21 million investment we intend to make in China over the next three years. One of Tenneco's key growth strategies is to expand in emerging markets and China is our greatest opportunity in this area.
The tide is turning against cheap flights and airport expansions. Residents and Earth First direct action activists are working together now.
There are huge expansions going on in Western Australia and the employment pages are groaning with ads from companies like ours. Miners are helping out as the jobs market softens a bit elsewhere.
There's only been a couple of expansions approved since the moratorium took effect and they all had approval from the host community. We want there to be a purpose to any kind of landfill expansion. We need to use our land properly.
The Patriot Act debate is far from over, and we will continue to fight for reforms to protect civil liberties. While Congress failed to adopt much-needed reforms to the law to better protect freedom and privacy, lawmakers also rejected pressure from the White House to include significant and unwarranted expansions of government power. We applaud those fair-minded lawmakers that have fought to bring the law in line with the Constitution, and together, we will continue to push for reforms to keep America safe and free.
Given the history of this church, for some of the older members, it's a difficult thing to move away -- because they've put their hearts into all those expansions over the years -- but our church really has a heart for reaching people, and we've reached our capacity here.
Our response will include church members, their neighbors and adjacent communities, ... It will be up to the state coordinator and local pastors to decide on any expansions based on available resources.
Tom has been a very effective advocate for the redistribution of resources for business startups. I would certainly say that many of us who are traditional practitioners of economic development become too narrowly focused on business recruitment when in fact the lion's share of jobs are generated through existing industry expansions and new business.
We ended 2005 on a very strong note, and achieved record revenues and operating cash flow for the year. We successfully managed through a period of increased energy costs and generated higher free cash flow to improve our credit quality. Over the course of the year, we achieved many strategic milestones, including the acquisition of a major wind energy company in the U.S. and the start of many new projects and platform expansions in various markets around the world.
Managing physical and attendance expansions is part of my CV, ... but we shouldn't put too much of an emphasis on trying to double them. What's most important is the quality of what you have to offer and how you get the audience engaged in the collections. That's more important to me than a monitor at the door that salivates every time you have another 100,000 visitors.