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    Pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. Guys make so much money now. You want to protect your investment. You don't want to abuse your pitchers.

    Peaceful development means that China is to develop itself through working for a peaceful international environment and in return, promote world peace through its own development.Open development means China will persist with its opening-up strategy and continue to improve the investment environment and open up its market. Cooperative development means China is to broaden its exchanges and cooperation with the rest world and work with others to resolve difficulties and differences that arise in cooperation and try its best to achieve mutual benefits and a win-win result.


    Underperforming assets are not going to work in the marketplace. Spin-offs used to be desirable. Now it looks like companies want to give to the investing public divisions that they can't do anything with.

    I'd say it's a stronger, more supple military. I think that there have been important improvements in technology, important increases in investment, important improvements in quality of life



    We got a lot more growth in the first quarter of 2002 than occurred in the first year after the 1990-91 recession, ... The economy grew near 4 percent in the first half of this year. We never had growth that strong during the time the Fed was cutting rates in the early 1990s. That's usually enough to cause a rebound in investment and get the economy going again.



    Our Asset Management Services division is an important part of our Group. Over the last decade, we have built a significant international distribution capability, which delivers investment solutions to institutional investors and their consultants. Our strategy is to harness this capability to provide an enhanced range of investment solutions in the future.


    So one would hope that China's investment would be broader and that it would contribute not only to China's development and growth ... but it would also contribute to Africa's growth and development.

    No one knows the answer to whether it will add to revenue. It will be slow going. We won't know how quickly either will see a significant return on investment from this deal.


    I think I can work with any of them. We are going to continue investing, whoever wins. We think long term, not just four or six years. We believe the country is strong, like almost all the countries in Latin America.

    Innovation and new ventures fuel the global economy but the spark comes from investment. Investment is about trust. It's about knowing that the people investors entrust with their money are running ethical, transparent and effective businesses. Stanford Law School has a demonstrated track record of leadership in the field of corporate governance. We are pleased to support their efforts.



    We fully expect that this combination will encourage investment, enhance the ability of companies to access financial resources and assure timely, informed execution of investment decisions.


    The right way includes an immediate tax for those Americans most affected by the economic slowdown and a budget that leaves enough money to pay off the debt, invest in the needs and priorities of the American people, and keep interest rates low and our economy strong,


    We want to have people in place by the holiday season. We're making a considerable investment, not only in the facility but in the people staffing that facility.

    The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.



    There are lots of different kinds of investing nicely matched against the structure of a closed end fund, that are not matched through other things. But this is not something you necessarily buy and hold forever. You've got to watch interest rates ... and be somewhat involved. But do you need to be an expert No.

    For many Americans, the home is the biggest investment they'll make in their lifetimes. Whatever drives your passion to participate in home improvement projects - return on investment, the sense of self- satisfaction or the pride of creating a home that r






    OfficeMax's turnaround plan focuses on the investment necessary to enhance the productivity of its underperforming assets, banal but essential areas such as infrastructure, logistics and systems. Effective turnarounds focus on these areas, rather than on driving short-term sales.

    intelligent enough to understand that the times are asking for modern policies so that we can be attractive enough to international investment, so that the country can grow, because the government does not have money today to make the country grow.

    Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'




    The ban on new U.S. investment in Burma is the latest in a series of sanctions the United States has imposed in response to the utter lack of political freedom in that country, ... and because its government has failed to cooperate in the war against drugs.


    Really, we've had some focus (on oil) since mid-February, when both markets made a significant low, and both markets had a near retest of those lows on Wednesday. Oil is emerging as the focus for the gold market as a surrogate for general commodity inflation. Without that kind of commodity inflation, then gold becomes a less attractive investment.

    And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

    IBM's leadership in Service Oriented Architectures is a direct result of the investments and focus from across the company to help customers use this technology to become nimble on demand business that can rapidly respond to changing market conditions. The industry leadership of WebSphere software, extensive professional services capabilities and deep industry specific expertise can't be matched by any single vendor attempting to deploy SOAs.



    The decline in the exchange rate will either be gradual, as domestic spending pressures ease, or it will be more abrupt as global investors reassess New Zealand as an investment destination.

    We're going to make an investment in Second Avenue. It would be nice if we could keep some of that. It's not going to be an eyesore. It's not going to be a stucco box. It will be wood and brick and stone. It will be a consistent addition to Second Avenue.

    Wisconsin continues to lag in venture capital investments, but its angel capital performance is impressive. Today's angel capital investments are helping to build companies that could attract tomorrow's venture capital investments.




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