After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance.
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Sporting goods in the offline world is a tough business, and companies like Sports Authority and Foot Locker have taken a long time to establish their brands. Given unlimited access to capital, MVP. com could have eventually survived.
What we'd like to ask you to at least consider is a public-private partnership where LANCO puts up the capital to run it 100,000 to 150,000 in the short run. We'd use our manpower to manage and operate the facility and the Port would give us the land in the short run.
The population shrinks due to fewer children being born and a continuing rate of out-migration. The oil industry, especially offshore, needs lots of capital but it doesn't need a lot of workers.
We are pleased to continue our partnership with York Street Capital. This expanded capital commitment helps to fill the growing need for junior capital driven by strong buyout markets and record levels of private equity fundraising. Through York Street, we are providing broader financing alternatives to companies and equity sponsors at a time when flexible junior capital solutions are an important component in financing both buyouts and corporate expansion. We believe that York Street will continue to generate superior returns and provide attractive co-investment opportunities for Teachers' Private Capital.
Our intellectual property is among our most valuable assets, ... This lawsuit represents an intensified effort to protect our intellectual capital. This isn't the first time we've sued to protect this investment and it certainly won't be the last.
There's bound to be a recovery in capital spending sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.
The expenditure formula reflects both regular and special education costs, excluding tuition and assessment costs associated with educating students out of district. It should also exclude land, buildings, capital reserve and debt service.
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.
China's investment demand is based on excessive optimism about the future. India depends on capital inflow to fund its consumption-led growth, like a poorer version of the U.S.
In the end, there's a high likelihood that in ten years, Capital One will look more like a thrift. I'd be surprised if I don't hear them make another bank acquisition by late 2006 in hot markets such as Florida or Texas.
Even a debate in the council, perhaps at the foreign minister's level, raises the ante and political tensions in capitals around the world that Iran is not meeting its obligations and appears to be developing an independent nuclear capability. It's not good news for Iran.
Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.
Wit Capital has pioneered the integration of the Internet and the capital markets, and both investors and corporate issuers are benefiting as a result, ... We believe that Wit Capital is both an attractive investment for Goldman Sachs and an important part of our ongoing commitment to supporting the Internet and other new technologies in our business.
The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.
I'm not sure how much sincere effort the administration is putting into the capital plan.
Home Depot's balance sheet looks strong, with enough cash and low debt. But we remain concerned about declining return on capital from Home Depot's high inventory levels.
We were at a crossroads, we were at a point in time where we had to make a decision to go public or to perhaps merge with another entity if it made sense. There were very few organizations out there that we would do this with -- and there's only one that I could think of, and that was Dell, just because of the similarities in terms of the direct business model, and that we have a lot of similarities with the company. The problem is that we were at these crossroads, we needed to raise capital, and we had never raised capital at this company from day one.
Bartering is always a good way to preserve capital, enabling small companies to focus on growing their business.
It just doesn't mesh. He grossly overestimated his political capital. Hubris, whatever, I can't explain it. He didn't have a lot of political capital. That was wrong.
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
There are some increased risks for independent institutional brokers that are, in a sense, left behind and not picked up by a larger organization with larger capital.
Younger businesses get funding and with it distribution on the Lycos Network, the investment risk and reward is shared by Lycos and our partners and, finally, Lycos puts itself in a position of strategic influence with many of the companies that are developing next generation offerings even though the outlay of our capital is minimal,
I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
That's anything in New York. It's the capital of the world. That's the way it is. It will always be that way. But, at the same time, as much as people might not want to say it, the Devils have been good for hockey too.
We might find some people selling off the big winners, ... because they might want to take some capital gains against the capital losses they've taken in recent years.
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
You are following the money. The great minds and the capital will move to the places that are the most aggressive, most active and where the growth rate is highest.
Capital spending (actual and planned) got healthier and one in five owners views the current period as a good time to expand, strong for this period in the cycle.
They've been saying they don't have plans to add another leg to the business, so it certainly looks like a sensible move to maintain the capital structure.
I think back to the tsunami, and I remember being so astonished, 2 12 weeks after it hit, to be standing in the capital of Indonesia and see a dead body on the ground. I never thought, never in a million years, that I would find something like that in the United States. But 10 days afterward in New Orleans, one of the great cities in America, and there were dead bodies on the ground. It's tough to have that happen in your own country.
The EU ignores the fact that 98 per cent of shoe manufacturers are funded by private and foreign capital. Refusing to grant market economy treatment to Chinese shoe makers is a discriminatory action violating the principles of fair trade.
An increasing number of middle income Americans are benefiting from the rising value of their stocks and mutual funds, and they have a stake in our economy, ... Middle income Americans need a capital gains tax cut and I intend to give it to them.
I would argue that the operational burden far outweighs the capital gain. Firms that have started deploying NAC have stopped because of the complexity. You really can't get it up and running enterprise-wide from the get-go.
Quite the opposite of undermining the competitiveness of the economy, trusts actually improve things. Capital ends up getting invested in things that make sense.
I'm not sure that anybody is ready to put their cards on the table. They should be ready if they are serious about the April deadline but nothing coming out of Geneva or the capitals of the G6 gives me much sense that the ducks are all in a row.
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
Under the floating exchange rate system, the initiative to take on speculators is in the hands of the central bank, while under the fixed exchange rate system, the initiative is actually in the hands of speculative capital.
We had a spectacular first-ever kickoff event last year in New York City to celebrate the resilient spirit of the city and America. We are looking forward to this season's opening game in the nation's capital, which presents a unique opportunity to salute the military and other public servants.