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It's a big, heavy tax, and that's why people don't want to raise it.

The First Boston brand has a lot of history and it's a great name. Going to one name is going to help us to run a very integrated business.

The pest control industry is continually growing as prevention has become the strategy of choice.

It's a matter of finding a balance between getting things approved in a timely way, and making sure what is proposed for approval makes sense. The more that changes are being proposed to current systems - as is the case with the commercial floor area allocations - the more red flags will be raised.

I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity.

It allows us to fix our PC business, ... If I didn't care about laying off people I could just shut it down. If I shut it down, I'd lay off a lot more than 15,000 people across two companies over several years.

The NFL is a cutthroat business. It's all about salary cap and money and (politics). I'm like everyone else in this business, trying to stay in as long as you can and setting up (financially) for after your career in the NFL.

Michigan was having a down year and we were like, we were going in to take care of business and get into another national championship.

We're on the downward slope of the commercial airplane cycle. But given the rebound the company has been able to make in improving production efficiencies, they should be able to offset the decline in revenue as operating profits improve going forward.

Especially if you're in contract negotiations, you help yourself a lot in terms of good will by avoiding layoffs, ... I think the industry has been pretty rational.

The female voice adds credibility. It's more pleasing to listen to and a little more convincing in the ski business.

We don't charge our vendors when they come to town, though. We sort of feel like it would be wrong. That tax is for our community, true, but we've been working with these vendors for years with this festival. We probably should, but, you know, we just won't put that tax on them.

It's homecoming. There will be a lot of activities to occupy the kids time and attention, but we need to take care of business on the field.

StorageTek gives Sun instant storage footprint, huge storage credibility, and a fantastic billion dollar service business. Sun gives StorageTek a whole new playground. Together, I can see grid computing and grid storage joining to provide some very powerful solutions moving forward.

They only lost 3 million. This is a company that does a billion dollars' worth of business every year.

That's the norm on every team. They bring in guys every year. That's just the way the business goes. You've got to be on top of your game every year or you're going to lose your job.

I've been through a lot. I've learned to stay patient because this is a business and anything can happen.

After the trade ... we knew we had to regroup as a team and move on. Joe was a friend and a big part of the team, but we told ourselves we have to start playing because we might lose somebody else.

We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in property values. We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in economic activity due to sexually oriented businesses.

It will undermine the international competitiveness of UK industry.

Carriers have to think broadly, and I think they understand now that they can't rely on sole-vendor relationships. It's just a cost of doing business.

While there have been some encouraging signs recently, the business environment has continued to be very difficult,

We're in a position that we envisioned ourselves being at this time. Now we've got to take care of business, continue to improve and do the things that got us to this point.

We go to the guy who already has the contract and can deliver the product. I know that's hard for some businesses to hear. But we really don't have the luxury to wait.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

This is a prominent Milwaukee business. It's perfectly normal that the governor go and help them celebrate their 20th anniversary.

For those people who thought this was something for the next generation... commercial spaceflight really is right on the horizon.

We watched her at the combine and she grew on us. There was no question that if we had made a trade and had lost one of our big players we would have taken her. But we would have worked a deal to move up to take her, too. She competes.

The business of Dubai is business.

Because he's in the business of insuring catastrophes, Buffett expects to get tagged now and then by a large event. It sounds like things were pretty good if you take out the insurance loss.

The fact they are blaming restaurants for creating obesity in this society is absurd, ... You're not going to end obesity in Americans by filing lawsuits against the restaurant industry.

The trend is toward larger dealerships. If you have multiple franchises, there's more opportunity for ... running a profitable business.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

The competition out there is pretty intense. There is a lot of business that is being bid on, and it's being bid on aggressively.

The industry is quite happy with the ruling they have in hand. There's no guarantees as to what would have come out of a review, favorable or unfavorable.

MVP.com underestimated both the time requirements and the financial resources required to achieve the critical mass of customers needed to sustain the business,

The big story of this quarter is the return to profitability of our commercial PC business, ... That's been one of out top priorities, and we achieved it one quarter ahead of schedule.

We believe this to be a great moment in the history of BP and of TNKSidanco and, indeed, an important milestone in the history of the industry.

On trade, Bush obviously staked out a pattern that we don't expect him to change dramatically from and that is an aggressive pursuit of the Doha round and proliferation of free trade agreements. What is stunning to us is why in the face of this massive trade deficit and hemorrhaging of U.S. manufacturing jobs there isn't some questioning of current U.S. trade policy.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

Officially, of course, no government is involved in the illegal arms industry, but a lot of them close a blind eye.

By taking the necessary action at the right time, businesses can prevent themselves going the same way and bearing the brunt of another company's business failure.

This agreement is a win-win situation for U. S. and EU winemakers, helping to establish predictable conditions for bilateral wine trade,

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

The industry is consolidating around big players, and we are benefiting from this trend. AOL's advertising commerce business is very healthy.

Unlocking the equity in your private property can be one of the best ways to finance the buying of a new business...

I tried to contact both for over a week this summer at the trade deadline to discuss players and did not get one call returned, ... The only club of the 29 that did not return a call.

In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, particularly the ailing network airlines, in a tight spot. Profits are elusive, ... Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.

Free money you never have to pay back. It may sound unbelievable but every day people and businesses are receiving government grant checks in the mail for doing nothing more than asking.

As an industry we recognize the need for more innovation in the area of portability and copyright protection. We want people to be able to enjoy movies on various home entertainment devices without infringing on copyright laws, and we will continue to look for ways to marry those concepts so people can get movies hassle free at a reasonable cost.