It's just like any sport or any skill - once you've been in the business a while, you've gone to the same range doing the same skill over and over, they grow stale.
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I remain more confident that the consumer will take great comfort in knowing that our government is truly taking care of business.
I think more businesses are recognizing the economic value of having the arts as part of town life. It's exploding. It's a very exciting development and a testament to how vibrant the arts community is.
The community was heavily involved in the process of identifying what our Loudoun brand is. North Star met personally with a selection of key business stakeholders, including members of the Board of Supervisors, the Chamber of Commerce, our Economic Development Commission, Loudoun County staff, and business leaders that play a key role in the county.
The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.
If you expect to receive a tax refund or a bonus in the next year, transfer your balance to a card with 0 APR on balance transfers for 12 months. Extra money from tax refunds, gifts and bonuses can help significantly in paying down the balance.
I think there's less worry on the consumer, and our focus ought to be more 'Does business, capital spending pick up'... That's much more meaningful going forward.
We will be looking to sell the business and are confident this will be achieved, as the Hunter brand is held in such high esteem worldwide.
We don't know how much is lost by people having a bad perception losses in retirees, business relocations, vacations and people passing through who decide they don't want to come back here.
What's really behind all of this is that there were expectations for international data growth, business services growth, Internet growth and the higher value-added segments that just have not transpired.
Ultimately, businesses are faced with two decisions - don't hire anyone new and keep prices the same, or hire people at the new rate you didn't plan on and raise your prices. It is an artificial raise in (business) cost ... when the market forces aren't dictating that they need to do that.
Following the recent management change and restructure, Eidos is able to reevaluate its calendar of releases giving us the opportunity to make changes in the best interest of the business. It is in light of this review that we have decided to move the ship date for 25 to Life from October 2005 into next year.
It's obvious we are no longer in the business of tall towers and big fields.
My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
Usage statistics are a leading indicator of our business growth. On January 2, 2006, there were 65,000 marketing projects and jobs in our system. On March 31, there were 83,000 marketing projects and jobs. Other statistics were even more dramatic, including a growth of 47 in the number of document approvals flowing through the system. Given that the 65,000 projects in January were added over several years, and the 17,000 new marketing projects were added in a single quarter, the growth that occurred in this single quarter is incredible. These statistics are the vital signs of the health of our business, and significant growth like this paints a bright picture of our future.
Tax what you burn not what you earn.
Our overall goal, as we've said all along, is to reach a longer-term solution that will permit greater stability in textile and apparel trade. The US has been using its right under China's WTO accession agreement to invoke safeguards in cases of market disruption or the threat of market disruption, and we will continue to do so as appropriate.
I don't even like chocolate, but my eye was casting over the possibilities. I am always interested in things that have a bigger social purpose than just being commercial. If I had my way, everything we sold would have a social mission. As a nonprofit, we're not in the business of creating individual personal wealth but of building social capital. That's part of our mission. I've watched funding for arts education go down in the last 20 years. Anything we can do for integrated arts education is great - for all ages, not just kids.
This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry,
We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.
Sounds like they're going after the container operations. So it wouldn't affect us at Port Canaveral. We're not in the container business. We don't stuff our exports into containers. We just load oranges, juices, and grapefruits and cars right onto the freighters. And our security procedures here are excellent.
We certainly don't need a reduction in rates and there are signals, like retail and trade, that show us the economy is going to rebound in the first part of the year.
Alliance management is the final piece of the business development structure. Formal alliance management groups tend to appear in relatively sophisticated organizations, and they command critical budget dollars.
It's a little hard, even being this far into a quarter, ... I think all of you can appreciate (that) one month can fluctuate a great deal from the month and the year before simply because of the number of business days and other factors, so we're just not able to comment on what's going on in the second quarter.
It's not appropriate for City Hall to be used for private business. It seems the better part of valor would be to have Southern California Edison reimburse the city for the expense or for her to use another facility.
I think it's a fair question to ask because Microsoft is showing some competitive weakness in this segment. But then you aren't really investing in Microsoft for the MSN part of the business.
Much like any other advertising medium, a trade show lets people know who you are and what you do.
The old 'buy the rumor, sell the fact' trade is in play now, and that will apply to the expected results set to come out,
They're not a rah-rah type of team. They take care of business on the court. They're not very vocal. Maybe that's good, because they keep their cool in tough situations.
Commercial information and communications are areas where we understand the customer, where we bring unique solutions no one else has the capabilities or resources to provide.
Its seems the worst slump in recent business history is behind us now, and the we begin to see the start of a new upturn in the business cycle, ... We are encouraged by the improved performance in many of our businesses, especially in semiconductors and components.
Instead of having the ad stand alone, they are surrounding it with other platforms where people are migrating. You want to get the biggest bang for your buck by putting the commercial in other venues.
We continue to believe that the proposed merger would have been a victory for consumers nationwide, and for our shareholders. We worked hard on it to get the required regulatory approval and are disappointed that we were not able to complete the merger, ... However, since the merger couldn't be completed, we concluded that this settlement is the best alternative for Hughes and places us in the best position to move ahead with our business.
That means making the effort to put records together, preparing financial statements and preparing a business plan, especially if the producer is looking at a new enterprise.
I think it's unwise and perhaps misleading for me to get into the business of saying we're considering this person, we're not considering that person.
These laws show the public we mean business. It will probably be a step toward increasing public credibility toward the legislature.
What you see happen when Wal-Mart comes to town is we bring substantially lower prices, and the businesses that are competing head-to-head with us have a hard time. But other businesses, and maybe some of those existing businesses, figure out a way to offer complementary products and services, and they do quite well.
We can safely say that green buildings are no longer a fad, but rather an increasingly important new way of doing business.
We are more interested in the business case. It's a segment we will study.
Who controls the future of computing is really what this is all about. All these vendors understand that this is a transitional time for the industry where platforms are evolving, and everybody wants to be the market leader and control things.
We all use cell phones and when there are gaps in coverage and you don't have service, that could be a life threatening issue or the loss of a business transaction. There are more rocks in the soil than I thought could exist, so it won't hurt the environment, and it's not near any schools, so I don't see any negative impacts.
With crude oil prices soaring and China investing in new export capacity at a breakneck pace, the trade deficit will continue to pull down U.S. growth. Without a devaluation of the dollar against the Chinese yuan, U.S. growth will slow significantly in the second half of this year.
He's engaged in a business of charging people for the movement of rubbish. To the best of our knowledge, he's not removing it to Eastern Maine Recycling in Southwest Harbor, and has not done so for three years.
Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.
We have major road construction in front of our business.
I think that, globally, investment banking is going to be a huge opportunity for the business. We're just seeing a huge amount of activity, and I think that falls right into benefiting the large brokerage firms.
Businesses aren't yet complaining of a paucity of pennies. I haven't noticed any shortage, ... We go to the bank in the morning and get our two or three dollars' worth every day.
It's going to be us against a lot of orange. They came into our house and took care of us, and we've got to go down there and take care of business. ... This is a chance to show everybody that we can play with the top teams.
I did a presentation in West Palm Beach back in 2001 and I just got glazed looks. Now we go and do this and they're eating it up. The industry has come a long way in all of these issues.
A paradox exists in the world of mergers and acquisitions. Other studies that have looked at MA deals in the past 20 years have found that deals in earlier MA cycles destroyed, rather than created, shareholder value. Yet to grow to be an organization operating on a global scale, it is almost impossible to do so quickly enough through organic growth alone. Mergers and acquisitions have in many ways become necessary. Interestingly, evidence is now mounting that the deals conducted in the current merger wave may be different. Across a broad range of industries throughout the world, lessons learned are being applied.