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We will expand further in asset management, invest significantly in our e-business platform and examine attractive opportunities to fill existing gaps in the areas of MA and private banking,

Such a massive government intrusion into how a broadband service like video is marketed, offered and priced would undoubtedly chill the needed innovation and investment necessary to build out capital intensive networks that rely on the marketplace to determine the most economically effective way to provide a return on investment.

California could become the global center for stem cell research with that kind of investment and the talent that's there. But within Harvard alone, we have as many outstanding scientists as arguably all of California. I think many of us are envious of the resources in California, but we're doing our best to organize and effort around somewhat more modest funding.

The modern investment-banking landscape is rife with the potential for conflicts of interest. We'll clearly develop new standards over the next few years as to what constitutes improper conflicts of interest. This investment may provide a nice case study for that scrutiny.

If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.

We really didn't buy it thinking we'd have this enormous investment,

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

The museum should boost Swansea by turning it into more of a destination. And along with all the other investment, it's really making local business much more confident about the future.

A stronger financial sector, combined with steps like the liberalization of the retail sector and more effective use of technology in the agricultural sector, would jump-start a surge in investments in India throughout the agriculture and food processing sectors that would add jobs and increase productivity,

We have received a number of calls on whether a combination of Yahoo and Disney would make sense. We believe an investment would be much more likely. Given that AOL-Time Warner is likely to be a real entity within a few weeks, creating a very strong globa

This could be a positive sign of their willingness to have a common set of rules for transit and investment.

There's no magical relationship between inverted yield curves and recession. There's a debate why long-term rates are so low. It's partly a low term premium and a lot of saving looking for a relatively limited number of investments.

Relationships with our customers have never been better. We made the investment into their emotional bank accounts, and they are paying the dividends with their increased frequency and ticket averages. It truly is a win-win relationship.

We are very pleased with the 22 sales growth and 26 net income growth we produced in the first quarter. Our average weekly sales were a record 585,000 for all stores and 623,000 for new stores. Our 13 comparable store sales growth this quarter marked our ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit comparable store sales growth, and despite the fact that our average store size continues to grow, our annualized sales per gross square feet increased to an all-time high of just over 900. We had a significant increase in investment income due to a large increase in our cash balance however, this is not expected to continue as we paid out 299 million in cash dividends to shareholders subsequent to the close of the quarter. Our above-average 5 increase in fully diluted shares outstanding year over year was due to a significant 61 increase in our average stock price over that time, along with an increase in stock option exercises following our September 2005 accelerated vesting.

It would be wonderful to have a laptop on every kid's lap. (But) That might not provide us with the best return on our investments.

Somebody with diplomatic, investment and legal skills is not a bad mix.

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

It's all his money, and he's on the investment committee. If a person's making a gift of that size, he can stipulate what he wants it in.

There is the risk the investment boom in China turns to bust and that would have a knock-on effect on the rest of the world. Higher rates may take off some of the froth from commodities markets which have benefited from the investment boom.

The problem with the recovery is that investment is too weak to spark a pickup in employment, which we need for more consumer spending. But growth rates should bounce back. We see 0.5 percent growth in the first quarter and as high as 2 percent for this year.

A single integrated voice platform with MPLS enables customers to leverage the true benefits of globalization, avoiding the complexities and overheads of a patch-worked networking environment. The investment also allows BT to easily integrate all of its global networks to achieve improved cost control and customer integration to convergence.

The numbers aren't good at all, especially because of the costs. Even without what was recently disclosed, investment banking, wealth and. Asset management and even non-life insurance looks heavy on costs.

In the short term these difficulties won't have too much impact because of the broader trends that are under way. But if this continues it may start to have an impact on the strength of house prices and inward investment.

In that district, she is particularly vulnerable given her record. Voters have demanded an investment in education coupled with property tax relief. (Lawmakers) are going to have to face that in November ...

In addition, our sales force is getting smarter about how to sell in this environment. Finally, high (return on investment) projects around e-business can only get delayed so long before management decides they need to press ahead.

Investment banking needs a go-getter attitude that Mitsubishi UFJ lacks. Its efforts to build up that business remain half-done.

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

Looking ahead, people will dig deeper, look harder and wait longer before investing.

This is a 50-year investment.

In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.

What is important from an investment angle is to look at the continuation of the peace process and further strengthening of it.

Government investment is good for the industry and annual growth in steel demand may accelerate to 10 percent.

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

We make an investment promoting those products.

We believe that this will generate about 50 million in care for the uninsured alone. If we're able to do that, that's a five-for-one return on the investment of this foundation grant.

We think a big part of what's wrong with the music industry is while the trends over the last 10 years have reduced the cost of music production, the music industry has not figured out how to change their model, Invest first, test later.

Gold is on 24-year highs because of a recent shift in investment allocations to commodities by a wide audience.

Alex's extensive experience in the investment industry and capital markets further strengthens the diversity of our board.

I had to wait six years to hear about long-term investment. But it was good to hear it.

Sports plays a critical role in the culture of business decision makers in the state -- where to locate plants, where to grow, where to make investments. Indianapolis is now on the list, where it never was before.

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.

Typically, if you've got a single blade for a single desktop, those servers are going to be down two-thirds of the day after people head home -- and that represents a pretty significant infrastructure investment. IBM is making the pitch that if you can support the same number of desktops with one-eighth the number of servers, you're going to end up with much higher utilization of your IT infrastructure.

Lehman analyst George Elling repeated his buy ... while Sun's shares may continue to be volatile, reflecting both the nervous market and the high multiple, we continue to believe they represent a sound long-term growth investment.

A lot of money is very sensitive to interest rate changes but also a lot of money has been put into the high growth technology sector, and the returns are not going to come to fruition in all investments.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Although we believe GM can reduce capacity and structural costs over the long term, the company will emerge from restructuring with lower earnings power and operating leverage. With a lower dividend, the costs of investing in this longer-term restructuring story have increased dramatically.

To a certain extent, the China story is easy to absorb. It's the most populous country in the world it's moving rapidly up the economic ladder it's going from bikes to cars. But it's tricky because that doesn't get to the point that a fast-growing economy means your investment is going to do well.

We are very pleased to report that we are well on our way to achieving the investment objectives we set forth in our May 2005 initial public offering.