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There's something of a revolution going on in terms of how people pick up and value sources of information. For business, it means they've got to change their game plan.

simply because if you look at the music business, there aren't a lot of new artists that can fill up an arena. Realistically, some of the best music today is (by) people like Norah Jones or Alicia Keys (who) are more suited (to) the intimacy of a theater.

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

Telecommunications as an industry in the United States is going through massive changes. We are in the middle of a major 20- to 30-year transformation. When we come out the other side, we'll have the choice of our telephone company versus our cable-television company for the same big bundle of services.

Last time I saw 6 percent was 1966, except for the last couple of years. If rates go to 7.5 percent, we'll take it. We can still do a whole lot of business.

It's not in the cards, ... to do an agreement that does not contain some sort of competitive balance i. e., luxury tax.

We are concerned primarily with the industry factors and have become more cautious on the sector.

The PC business isn't going away. It has become more competitive. But International Rectifier is positioned beautifully, with power chips for the laptop marketplace, which is a strong area. It is depressed like all the others in semi, so I'd want to own it.

Management believes the group can generate half of its profits from outside the U.K. within three years from the current portfolio of businesses - we think highlights the strong organic growth possibilities within the business.

This is a business trip. We're all businessmen and we're here to handle business. Now we've just got to take care of our business on game day.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

The industry does not look good, profits are weak and it's not that they don't want to buy but rather it's that their ability to pay has been affected by the high oil price.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

I tell everybody this team is finally getting to where we should be. We're mature. We handle business.

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

There's a tremendous amount of Alaskan snow crab available, and is going to be available. It's unfortunate. Crab fishermen their cost of business has gone up, and so has ours. So we're all being pinched.

This is a business this is organized crime. People are making money on it.

11 years is a long time in this industry.

This gain in proprietors' income is small-business job creation, we think, and it's more useful at this point in the business cycle than it would otherwise be,

It just baffled me and drove the business types crazy. The stuff that OFAC was doing was important and made a big difference to their businesses, particularly if they got caught in the wrong place.

He is unlike anyone, even in the entertainment business,

If local citizens want to pony up the money to right this wrong, they should put up the tax dollars. They should not come begging to Washington to do it.

We make an effort to run the business like a small company - though we have added to the staff, we have not added to the decision making, ... We talk about everything. But the key for me is to be decisive and focused. None of it is coincidental. People have a lot of autonomy, but I still have to see everything.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

The goal of Best Buddies is not to need Best Buddies at all. We shouldn't need to artificially create friendships -- they should occur naturally. We hope that we pretty much put ourselves out of business.

The lifeblood of our business is that RD spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Rita's impact appears less than initially feared. Gaming assets in Lake Charles were damaged but it appears as if full rebuilding may not be necessary. While the city of Lake Charles sustained some significant damage and it will likely be some time before business comes back, our initial read is that the community is far less devastated than New Orleans.

I didn't think it was good business. I ran him for 12,500, which was a big drop, and I didn't think it was right to take him back for a new owner.

It's tough in the Hip Hop industry to continue to create, because the powers that be want a throw away art. They didn't think Rap Music would even last. So instead of trying to get rid of rap music, because everyone benefits from it, they try to get rid of seasoned rappers, at a point in their careers when they finally know the ins and outs of the business aspect of their careers. You see what Prince did when he realized that he didn't own anything, he put slave on his cheek. He came to a point in his career where he was educated enough to be wiser in his choices and realized his true leverage power.

I consider my future flight to be a small part of an important trend to make space accessible to more people, not just to experts. I am very much in favor of commercial space travel, which promises to advance technology just like commercial aviation did many years ago.

Many people in technology say the killer app is pirated content, ... Some feel the availability of illegal content sells computers. It's very hard to negotiate with an industry that thinks its short-term growth is dependent on theft.

Gas prices are killing our Georgia families, ... We will quickly go about the business of the people and ratify what the governor has put in place.

This consolidation is an opportunity for Home Depot to better leverage operating efficiencies as we continue to grow our business,

Our objective is to provide the reseller with that vision and blueprint to be able enter and be profitable in the business, and they understand what they need to do through the whole sales process.

It looks increasingly likely to us that GM will effect some kind of a transaction that will separate these two businesses. These two companies will be worth more apart than they are together.

We're happy to have the lemons turn into lemonade after all in this case. The decision to sell was bittersweet, but this was the right thing to do for business, for the tenant, and for the community.

We faced the 5-on-3 early and that's not a situation you want to give up but we killed it off and it gave us some momentum. After that, we took care of business.

Our key industries are starting to show more consistent growth and with the national economy still heating up, hopefully, job creation will surpass our earlier forecast.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

I think a lot is happening in the PC business that I think bodes very well for PC demand and they are kingpin, in terms of being able to produce profits in the PC business. So I think they are the leader for the PC companies and I think that that's where you need to look to them.

Content 360 was a great success in helping the BBC to engage with the wealth of talent from the international new media industry. Congratulations to all those who took part. The winners were those proposals which were innovative in a way that can help the BBC deliver the very best quality services to our audience.

It's pretty much a fact Uribe will be reelected, and therefore from an outside point of view these elections are more important. Lack of support in the current legislature led the government to withdraw a tax bill and have a watered-down pension law.

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

While the Mississippi River itself continues to be a major hub of commerce, port facilities and agri-business are currently plagued by a number of problems that include a shortage of barges, workers and truck drivers at a critical time in the nation's grain harvest,

It's an attempt to save Napster absolutely...and what we're trying to do is say to the record industry is that we've been saying these things in private to you for nine months -- now we're saying these things in public.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

The office of the inspector general developed this report over two years. During that same time period, much has been done at CIA and throughout the intelligence community to improve and reform the way we do business,

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They've been totally preoccupied with the business side of it, but not so much with how the new formats - or the freedom of formats - could change the nature of what exactly is created.

The film industry is one of the most resilient industries ever.

What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.