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    We made excellent progress in 2005 by improving our management of the distribution channel, reducing inventories throughout the supply chain and reducing our capital spending and ultimately depreciation expense.

    The plant really touched the life of virtually every person in the country.

    You know if you want to win and want to compete in this competition, this is what you have to do in the finals.

    We've got a review Monday morning, and it'll be the best educational tool you could possibly give,

    Risk and reward tend to be symmetrical. If you want to be a high-value company, you have to take more risks.


    if the public is convinced that the corporation is spending money wisely.

    (But Chapman) was probably always going to miss this week.

    (The BBC) doesn't have to take cynical or commercial decisions, it should really put its money where its heart is

    The medical people are very glad to have us there,

    In some ways we play a similar style, not an exact copy of Sydney, but we like the contested footy,

    I probably won't make too much of a deal about it - Nathan is in his own little world sometimes and he just goes out and plays footy,

    (You can) use it for the rest of your life, basically. It's a game they could have won. Last year, we played a preliminary final and it was very tight and we had chances to win that if we'd handled that better. Eventually, you know as a coach of a club that you've got to experience these types of games and this type of pressure.

    We set some aggressive operational and financial goals in the middle of last year, and I'm pleased to report that Fairchild has delivered impressive first-quarter results, ahead of our expectations.

    We welcome ITV as partners in the project to develop a consumer-friendly, subscription-free satellite proposition. This is great news for viewers. It paves the way to provide subscription-free digital television across the whole country.

    I accept the premise that if the BBC remains nothing more than a traditional TV and radio broadcaster then we probably won't deserve or get license-fee funding beyond 2016, ... That is very definitely not our plan.

    In the brick-and-mortar world, there is no model.

    It's going to be a completely different style to the one we've just played, ... (The Swans) will be emotionally stressed about the performance because they did everything to win, which was a huge effort from the Sydney footy club.

    My son's (Michael and Peter) play for H-F. But I still help out at Marian Catholic. Just trying to promote the sport.

    They didn't show the replay and, to be honest, you know we are not allowed to talk about those issues.

    We should aim to deliver public service content to our audiences in whatever media and on whatever device makes sense for them whether they're at home or on the move.

    From a club point of view, we can understand everyone writing about Nathan, but from our expectations we're not expecting him to go out and kick four in the first quarter,

    We have filled that niche. People are very satisfied with this product.

    Eventually you know as a coach of a club that you've got to experience these types of games in this type of pressure,

    We have one of the best Web sites in the world, but it's rooted in the first digital wave. We need to reinvent it, fill it with dynamic audiovisual content, personalize it, open it up to user-friendly material.

    However, some specific remarks were inappropriate and ran the risk of calling into question John's own impartiality and, by extension, that of the BBC. We've made it clear to him that this must not happen again.

    We are going to review the game on Monday morning and it will be the best education tool you could possibly give,

    I don't think that there is the industry disconnect that a superficial analysis of the headlines suggests there is. Intel grew in the same range that we grew. It just wasn't as much as their own forecasts. So, when I look at the entire industry, I don't see that disconnect.

    That's them, it's not me. I didn't make them go out there again. It's a good sign that they want to stay and work.

    We can deliver much more public value when we think across all platforms and consider how audiences can find our best content, content that's more relevant, more useful and more valuable to them.

    Fairchild is making excellent progress in improving the quality of our business through new products and better product mix. We're executing well, demand is strong and I'm very optimistic about our prospects for 2006.

    But it's not only human rights activists who are concerned. The U.S. military is reluctant to be drawn into a counterinsurgency war, ... They don't think it's possible to say you're going to go down there and help the Colombian military shoot drug traffickers without shooting at the FARC, and that makes them very nervous. It's a rebellion that's been going on for some 40 years, and it's plainly not going to come to an end soon -- the Pentagon fears it's a whirlpool that's going to suck them in.

    It has always been fairly easy to do comparison shopping on the Web,

    The fire had some unusual items that we noticed right away. There were no signs of forced entry, the fire started exterior from the house and there were no normal igniting sources that were in the area.

    It was a strain. He didn't have anything on his scans, and last week, we really could have played him. He trained last week as you all would have seen, and it was just precaution that we didn't play him, which almost helps this week because you know that he'll go into the game with the right frame of mind,

    I told them at three-quarter time we had to win the game and when we got the first goal we should have kept attacking them,

    There's no plastic that's hermetic enough to make devices that will last a long period.

    We have lost a giant of comedy. Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of greats who shaped British comedy in the twentieth century.

    I don't think Steven King did anything wrong and he shouldn't feel guilt even though he would be because of the injuries sustained, but he shouldn't really feel guilty because it could have easily been Steven smothering the ball and Jeff White kicking the ball. That's how simple and quick this game is. It can happen to anyone at any time.

    Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of comedy greats who shaped British comedy in the 20th century.

    Increasingly we shall have people who are trained to work in all three media, so we can deliver this added service with relatively modest extra investment. For the television component we are not talking about 24 hours. We are talking about quite small segments of news being delivered on broadband and on digital satellite to consumers.

    We had a pretty good week as far as injury and blokes pulling up well from the game, and we've got a couple back this week, so eventually it looks as though it's working out a bit,

    He has gone to hospital for X-rays on his neck but he is quite conscious and I have spoken to the doctor and he is confident everything will be OK.

    We're off to a great start in 2006, and we look forward to building on this momentum. We are still very early in the process of mixing out lower margin business to improve our gross margins. Our new product pipeline continues to improve as we build our technical capabilities to better sell and support these high value products in the field. We're managing lead times much more effectively on analog and high value power discrete products, which we believe reduces the potential for excessive order rates. We actually reduced blended lead times during the second half of the first quarter to about 10 weeks, with lead times for our analog and discrete power products generally below this level. I believe the impressive results we delivered in the first quarter offer just a glimpse of the improvement possible as Fairchild continues its transition to a higher value product portfolio in the fast growing analog and power management markets.

    I don't think the game has any problems at all. We shouldn't keep trying to predict how the game might be played in three or four years. Everybody is happy how the game is going now.

    This process will enable us to get 100 percent efficiency out of a single, broad spectrum light source.

    That's just part of how this generation has been raised. You add a 40,000 price tag for a school like Colgate, and you have high expectations for what you get.

    A couple of years ago I was out with some friends and all they had on the boat was a wakeboard, so I thought, Why not'

    the choice of commercial providers (would be) fair and open.

    Absolutely, they're going to review the game Monday morning and it'll be the best educational tool you could possibly get, ... It won't be critical. It'll just be a very good review of the game and what we did really well and what we can do better next time we get in this situation.

    I probably inventoried about 10,000 images, and as you go through the images, you see Calcite being built, and you see the community of Rogers City developing. So it's a tremendous historical record.


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