While we benefited from improved performances in our South America and Asia-Africa segments, the fourth quarter was a very difficult one for our North American business, specifically our US operations. Stronger results in Canada and Mexico were unfortunately reduced by an operating loss in the US business, attributable to the continuing increase in energy and supply costs, and operating issues and boiler reliability at Argo, our largest plant.
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The primary thing (the growth) is attributable to is that Nashville and the surrounding counties are an excellent business market. Houses sell because people have jobs. People have jobs because you have a good, diverse economic base.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
The increased prices that people are having to pay is attributable to the increased costs of the price of crude oil and the 5 to 6 cents (a gallon) that we said is going to be the cost to refiners to go ahead and blend this new blend.
The better-than-expected results are mainly attributable to market-share gains in the LCD TV business and enhanced manufacturing capability.
Some Blacks lack a real grasp of the bitter struggle that was waged to pry open the corporate doors. The buppies harbor the illusion that their good fortune is solely attributable to their own brilliance and their superior qualifications.
Until we experience an economic slowdown, we will not know for sure how much of the extraordinary rise in output per hour in the past five years is attributable to the irreversible way value is created and how much reflects endeavors on the part of the business community to stretch existing capital and labor resources in ways that are not sustainable over the long run,
We think the revenues were in line or perhaps a little better than the Street, which is attributable to the deceleration of declines in radio revenue and improving outdoor advertising revenues.
The bottom line is that, when you start taking a look at the accounting differences, it comes down to we're about 117 million higher than Consumers and about two-thirds of that can be attributable to health care and pension benefits.
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
It is not (attributable to) Allah that He should lead a people astray after He has guided them He even makes clear to them what they should guard against surely Allah knows all things.
We believe that Midway's recent share-price weakness is more attributable to a slow down in purchases by its major shareholder than to a downturn in its business.
These results show continued progress toward sustainable profitability. This improvement is attributable to our ability to produce a reliable airline operation that has enabled us not only to increase traffic but to build unit revenue.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.