Even if the Fed got very concerned about these headwinds -- business investment, consumer confidence, stock market frailty -- they'd be asking themselves if cutting another 25 basis points one-quarter percentage point would do any good whatsoever. That I seriously question.
Quotes about one-quarter (16 Quotes)
Within a few years, China could well import one-quarter of the oil that we currently send to the United States, ... an extra little push.
There is no question that the fourth quarter was a bummer, even with that upward revision. Even if we blame temporary factors, it was a one-quarter bust.
Between one-quarter and one-half million women have participated in BOW workshops. In some workshops, shooting activities will fill up in others, fly fishing draws the most attention. Archery has become pretty popular. The interest really varies.
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
Local advertising is bought more on a quarterly basis than an annual basis, ... A lot of economists have been lulled into a false sense of growth due to strength of '03 upfront the advertising bought in the spring for the fall 2003 television season. But that is only one-quarter in '03, and three-quarters in '04.
The Afghan campaign has required a lot of base construction, aircraft refueling and several thousand American personnel. The costs have been in the general vicinity of 20 billion -- about one-quarter the cost of Desert Storm already -- and it will keep going.
We do not see this as a one-quarter phenomenon for Apple, but rather as the beginning of many tough quarters ahead.
If the company said it was a one-quarter event, then I think the downside would have been limited. But given the guidance we received, which is that growth is likely to slow because the company is so large, that will ratchet down the numbers for fiscal 2001, and that's probably where the damage is going to come from.
The outdoor kitchen starts out as something they plan to use maybe one-quarter as much as their regular kitchen. Now, depending on the season, they will use it three-quarters of the time and it becomes the primary kitchen.
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.
Consumer confidence slipped in February to the lowest reading in three months, but manufacturing activity appears to have strengthened last month. On net, the latest economic news had little effect on mortgage rates this week. Over the past five weeks, mortgage rates have remained within a narrow range of 0.1 percentage points around this week's averages. Our forecast calls for rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages to increase about one-quarter of a percentage point by the end of the year.
The damage is already done. Investors are willing to go in and buy on the weakness. There is enough conviction that 25 basis points (one-quarter percentage point) is already built in.
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Even if I stay with nine (Cabinet) ministers and one-quarter of the Knesset behind me, we will do it,
He ran well going a mile and one-half in the Turf Classic and in the Breeders' Cup Turf, although I think he might be most effective going a mile and one-eighth to a mile and one-quarter because of his explosive turn of foot.