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    If the economy has turned, as all these reports keep showing, the investment community needs to see earnings turn around too. There is still a lot of money on the sidelines.


    The balance will eventually change, but these numbers suggest the caution businesses have been showing is warranted. They also say we might be waiting until early 2004 before we see much stronger business investment.

    With any PABX, whether it is analogue, digital or IP telephony, they are expensive and you have to exploit the investment completely. You don't just rip them out and replace them because new technology arrives.




    From a financial point of view, this is a healthy development for the communities we serve and our shareholders. The bank will be able to continue to grow and expand, which allows us to continue to lend more money to families and businesses in our local areas. Our shareholders' investments should continue to increase in value in addition to providing a cash dividend.


    As such, I think it was a good investment, and Ford Park is not a bad idea. It's just that not enough people were brought into the mix to guarantee it's going to be successful.

    The people that start these companies tend not to be operationally oriented. Their focus is developing a portfolio of investors and developing a portfolio of investments. The human resources piece -- the whole infrastructure you would like to have in any business -- tends to be neglected.

    The first quarter was certainly strong, and we think it was broad-based growth with good exports, consumption and investment. Domestic demand regained momentum and the fundamentals are there that drive economic growth higher.

    Things are running very well inside the investment arm of the company, and now is the right time for me to pass the baton to a new generation of leadership and return to a broader agenda of personal interests.


    Standing still is not an option. Each of the eight properties our advisory team has identified is profitable. We think there are solid business opportunities out there. We are going to go after those properties and we are going to attempt to persuade others in labor, management and the investment community to join us. We have formally requested that Knight Ridder open the process to include our bid.





    The manufacturing sector is benefiting from strong global growth and investment. That's particularly true in Germany, which tends to specialize in high quality capital goods.

    We all feel state economic development policy has not had the benefit of input from the private sector. We think the business community can do a better job of helping guide public investment.

    There is a disconnect between the investment we're making in discovering treatments and the result in practical treatments that are reaching patients. We think that there are scientific approaches we could be taking that would help us learn more about drugs in a shorter time and for less cost.

    There is no shortage of funds from the investment community, since people believe that this is going to happen. If anything, too much funding is available, because it leads to some crazy things.

    They are saying the economy is going to slow and that there's no inflation but that we still need to raise rates. Investment professionals worry that the Fed will go too far and grind the economy into a recession.

    It is worth it even if only the financial balance sheet for society is considered a few years of investment versus a subsequent lifetime of productive activity. Perhaps a cycle prevented with children's lives changed. Health problems averted. Addiction and crime avoided as ways to cope with hopelessness.


    I've never seen before the last six months the interest in investing in this community, locating in this community. I believe this can be the strength and vitality of the community, and it's a real priority. ... We're really on the brink of good years ahead.



    So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

    Now we're going to see more pressure on the bond market and an already stressed equity market. There's a lot of concern and we're seeing some defensive investing. This number shows that the Fed will continue raising rates. Numbers like this show that we're in store for two more hikes.

    It is a question of whether children should have to pay the price for their parents' choices. Children are an investment in our future, and you want to invest in their health and well-being.




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