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Of the 36,000 that were served by the food bank last year, food insecure was about 87 percent.
DEBRA ALICH The core is up 0.3 percent over the last year, and so there really is no inflation, ... In the first...
GERALD COHEN During that six-year time period, prices for all medicines went up 16 percent, compared to an overal...
ALAN HOLMER The services-oriented sector of the economy is still looking fairly robust, averaging a 3.9 percent ...
CLAUDIO PIRON At least in the near term we are seeing a sharp decrease in natural gas prices because the weather h...
MARK STUTZ The price has plunged over 50 percent in the fourth quarter [of last year from the previous year], b...
FRANK HUANG Rising oil prices are not only affecting current inflation rates but they're also overshadowing next...
OTMAR ISSING I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.
BURHANUDDIN ABDULLAH In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN It's going to be probably one of the greatest harvests ever. We're looking at a 2 percent to 4 perce...
GEORGE ROSE So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER The biggest positive was handset margins, which came in at 4 percent, up from 1.5 percent last quart...
MARK MCKECHNIE Intel was able to minimize its revenue decline in NOR flash to only 0.3 percent during the year, whi...
DALE FORD Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN This sector saw about a 4 percent growth last year. I expect it to do about the same, between 3 to 4...
FRANK BADILLO Amazon at this level is a large retailer. So, 84 percent year-over-year growth is not bad in a very ...
TIM ALBRIGHT Up until last year, there was a cap on the number of students that could leave a particular district...
JOE DONOVAN That number is almost double from last year when only 20 percent of consumers polled has a similar r...
BRITT BEEMER Half the winters where EIA projects anything like this, their figure ends up collapsing. The market ...
MICHAEL GORDON For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed...
ED YARDENI We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In...
LOWRY MAYS But China cannot be complacent, ... In the last year its GDP grew nine percent, but energy use incre...
IAN LOWE The chances of 10-year yields soaring above 1.6 percent are high. Ten- year bonds look expensive com...
MAKOTO YAMASHITA What's interesting is the increase in the sales price of homes, 13 to 14 percent, based on our offic...
DAVE NASH We just came off a show in South Bend where consumer attendance was up about 50 percent from the yea...
MARK BOWERSOX We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG He is 100 percent ahead of where he was last year. He just doesn't get tired. He does a lot of thing...
BOB STOLL We're working on the passing game. The backs are pretty quick. We'll have to throw a little more [th...
JOSH HILDEBRANDT We think inflation in the middle of this year will be back below target. We are likely to see 5 perc...
DAVID BRICKMAN We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI Given what illegal immigration costs each year, given that 30 percent of inmates in our federal pris...
JOE KASPER Meridian grew 400 percent last year so we had five times as much business as the year before. Much o...
CHIP WOLFE The California housing market continues to experience year-over-year double-digit price appreciation...
VINCE MALTA![]()
Economic confidence is weak because of high oil prices, but all that will change once oil is back do...
DAVID BROWN We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL I'm seeing some gradual softening of about 5 percent in real estate prices so far this year, but not...
BOB MOULTON We estimate there will be 140,000 to 150,000 weddings this year, a 40 percent rise over last year.
CHEN YU![]()
Last year, the velocity was down and I'm not convinced he was 100 percent healthy. He looks a lot be...
BRIAN GRAHAM This clarifies the existing status of many roads around the county. We completed roughly 99 percent ...
CLYDE MELICK This is a dispute that should never have happened. This is an irrational one. These pilots are the b...
JACQUES KAVAFIAN Last year, we only had a 1 percent increase in our health insurance premium.
BRYAN SMITH [So-called core prices have risen in only one month since April 1998. They fell 0.1 percent in Augus...
TOSHIHIKO FUKUI It's hard to disagree with Greenspan. Our own market view is equities are fairly valued, but they ha...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT If you want to know how much more it costs you to live this year than last year, look at the headlin...
ANN OWEN If you want to know how much more it costs you to live this year than last year, look at the headlin...
ANN OWEN Between all of our other television partners and AFL Net [internet video streaming], last year we ha...
CHRIS MCCLOSKEY I'm surprised it was this good, quite honestly. And more importantly the guidance for next year on t...
DAN NILES Last year, a little over 51 percent of all individual taxpayers took advantage of e-file. This year,...
BERT DUMARS When he was chairman, the credit union experienced some of its most extensive growth. We grew one ye...
KIRK KORDELESKI If the rise in petrol prices in the producer-price data is reflected in the CPI data, there is a ris...
JAMES CARRICK We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent th...
STEVE MILUNOVICH Our efforts to reduce inflation are working; inflation here has now converged to euro area norms. Th...
BRIAN COWEN Last year I got into a slump at a bad time because our team was desperate. We were losing a lot of g...
DENNYS REYES Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gro...
GAIL WILENSKY We have had a good year. We've already surpassed last year. We're up about 12 percent over last year...
TOM JANKOVSKY Based on the relationship between the stocks-to-use ratio and price since 1998-99, a price of $2.51 ...
DARREL GOOD We have only restored 81.5 percent (of the 2002-03 funding allocation) this year.
JOANNE VAVREK Wages have been outpacing inflation. However, we're also seeing more layoffs this year than we did l...
MARIO DEROSE We were able to maintain 6 percent growth this year despite increase of world oil prices, tsunami ef...
SARATH AMUNUGAMA Last year at this time, we had 5,140 students, so we stayed within five percent of that, which is wh...
JOE BARKER In its first year of operation, the Denver project has seen an 18 percent increase in recycling.
LYNN BROWN We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER The underlying growth opportunity of the Internet is enormous. We have only about 40 percent penetra...
BOB GRANDHI We have about 85 percent of our team back from last year, so we're pretty deep in a lot of spots. We...
DUKE DURLAND This has doubled or even tripled in the last year and a half, ... The diesel price has tripled so th...
BILL GRANT There have been 2 to 4 percent price increases among the larger toy manufactures in the U.S. this ye...
ANTHONY GIKAS Given how well inflation is doing, I think that there is still room for the central bank to cut afte...
GRAY NEWMAN Since the demand will keep mounting in the market, the prices could jump more than 3 percent on a ye...
DAVID KIM We went 3-8 my first year and 1-9 my second year. But I think we'll be a lot more competitive this y...
JAKE WEINGARTZ Everyone doesn't necessarily spend 100 percent of their budget amounts in a given year.
BRAD WHEELER To only have 35 percent of average rainfall at this time of year is extreme.
BILL SAMMLER Over the past year, core intermediate goods inflation has been nearly 5 percentage points higher tha...
BILL DUDLEY We needed a game like this and not another 30-point blowout. We missed a lot of easy shots and shot ...
ED COSTLEY Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.
BOB BURKE Though this news is clearly a disappointment, we believe that the damage is largely done and the 10 ...
JAMI RUBIN Batavia is targeting at least 85 percent to 90 percent this year.
ANTON SITUMEANG That prevalence dropped to 26.4 percent at one year and remained stable. Not wanting to be seen undr...
MARTIN BINKS Compliant records data is presently estimated to grow over 60 percent per year, generating more than...
FRED MOORE There are fewer and fewer smokers every year. Also, studies show that as the prices of cigarettes go...
DERYK PARKER The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON He's telling you the Fed's probably got more room to continue to hike, but inflation is not going to...
JAMES CARON Student bus ridership was up 30 percent last academic year. We hope to see that improve even more.
CINDY CAMPBELL Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH When I take the drought [in the Midwest] this summer with the orange juice situation, I feel more co...
ANTHONY CHAN The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I...
ESMAEL ADIBI It?s a great show. Last year we got 90 percent of the state champions to compete.
HARRY MONDALE![]()
A year ago some said that the doubling of oil prices would push our inflation far beyond target and ...
GORDON BROWN He sells it as a big program but it is only a 1.6 percent raise for teachers.
DAVID KOCHMAN Although San Miguel B has fallen 12 percent from its peak in July last year, we believe that the iss...
LEO VENEZUELA Clearly the volatility in the market has just been unbelievable. The Nasdaq in this week alone going...
BRIAN PISKOROWSKI It's going just as everyone has been expecting. We'll probably see the year-on-year (CPI) increase j...
SEIJI ADACHI One of the big differences between our team this year and last year is that we are hitting a lot bet...
BEAU JARRELL Handheld platforms were the big story last year, and so far this year, that segment of the industry ...
ANITA FRAZIER Even more surprising was the amount (played on baccarat), $426 million, up 107 percent over last yea...
FRANK STRESHLEY Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
SUSAN RICE It isn't a market that has matured, but there is more interest. Given where inflation has been - I'v...
CASEY COLTON We are 30 percent over what we were last year.
BRENDA RYANS Brian Griese took a big step last year, completing 69.3 percent of his passes,
JON GRUDEN The evidence continues to mount that the economy is picking up a little bit but current levels -- 5....
JOSH STILES The first provided a 10 percent signing bonus and a pay increase of 3 percent in the first year and ...
CHARLIE MCDONALD
DEBRA ALICH The core is up 0.3 percent over the last year, and so there really is no inflation, ... In the first...
GERALD COHEN During that six-year time period, prices for all medicines went up 16 percent, compared to an overal...
ALAN HOLMER The services-oriented sector of the economy is still looking fairly robust, averaging a 3.9 percent ...
CLAUDIO PIRON At least in the near term we are seeing a sharp decrease in natural gas prices because the weather h...
MARK STUTZ The price has plunged over 50 percent in the fourth quarter [of last year from the previous year], b...
FRANK HUANG Rising oil prices are not only affecting current inflation rates but they're also overshadowing next...
OTMAR ISSING I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.
BURHANUDDIN ABDULLAH In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN It's going to be probably one of the greatest harvests ever. We're looking at a 2 percent to 4 perce...
GEORGE ROSE So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER The biggest positive was handset margins, which came in at 4 percent, up from 1.5 percent last quart...
MARK MCKECHNIE Intel was able to minimize its revenue decline in NOR flash to only 0.3 percent during the year, whi...
DALE FORD Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN This sector saw about a 4 percent growth last year. I expect it to do about the same, between 3 to 4...
FRANK BADILLO Amazon at this level is a large retailer. So, 84 percent year-over-year growth is not bad in a very ...
TIM ALBRIGHT Up until last year, there was a cap on the number of students that could leave a particular district...
JOE DONOVAN That number is almost double from last year when only 20 percent of consumers polled has a similar r...
BRITT BEEMER Half the winters where EIA projects anything like this, their figure ends up collapsing. The market ...
MICHAEL GORDON For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed...
ED YARDENI We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In...
LOWRY MAYS But China cannot be complacent, ... In the last year its GDP grew nine percent, but energy use incre...
IAN LOWE The chances of 10-year yields soaring above 1.6 percent are high. Ten- year bonds look expensive com...
MAKOTO YAMASHITA What's interesting is the increase in the sales price of homes, 13 to 14 percent, based on our offic...
DAVE NASH We just came off a show in South Bend where consumer attendance was up about 50 percent from the yea...
MARK BOWERSOX We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG He is 100 percent ahead of where he was last year. He just doesn't get tired. He does a lot of thing...
BOB STOLL We're working on the passing game. The backs are pretty quick. We'll have to throw a little more [th...
JOSH HILDEBRANDT We think inflation in the middle of this year will be back below target. We are likely to see 5 perc...
DAVID BRICKMAN We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI Given what illegal immigration costs each year, given that 30 percent of inmates in our federal pris...
JOE KASPER Meridian grew 400 percent last year so we had five times as much business as the year before. Much o...
CHIP WOLFE The California housing market continues to experience year-over-year double-digit price appreciation...
VINCE MALTA
Economic confidence is weak because of high oil prices, but all that will change once oil is back do... DAVID BROWN We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL I'm seeing some gradual softening of about 5 percent in real estate prices so far this year, but not...
BOB MOULTON We estimate there will be 140,000 to 150,000 weddings this year, a 40 percent rise over last year.
CHEN YU
Last year, the velocity was down and I'm not convinced he was 100 percent healthy. He looks a lot be... BRIAN GRAHAM This clarifies the existing status of many roads around the county. We completed roughly 99 percent ...
CLYDE MELICK This is a dispute that should never have happened. This is an irrational one. These pilots are the b...
JACQUES KAVAFIAN Last year, we only had a 1 percent increase in our health insurance premium.
BRYAN SMITH [So-called core prices have risen in only one month since April 1998. They fell 0.1 percent in Augus...
TOSHIHIKO FUKUI It's hard to disagree with Greenspan. Our own market view is equities are fairly valued, but they ha...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT If you want to know how much more it costs you to live this year than last year, look at the headlin...
ANN OWEN If you want to know how much more it costs you to live this year than last year, look at the headlin...
ANN OWEN Between all of our other television partners and AFL Net [internet video streaming], last year we ha...
CHRIS MCCLOSKEY I'm surprised it was this good, quite honestly. And more importantly the guidance for next year on t...
DAN NILES Last year, a little over 51 percent of all individual taxpayers took advantage of e-file. This year,...
BERT DUMARS When he was chairman, the credit union experienced some of its most extensive growth. We grew one ye...
KIRK KORDELESKI If the rise in petrol prices in the producer-price data is reflected in the CPI data, there is a ris...
JAMES CARRICK We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent th...
STEVE MILUNOVICH Our efforts to reduce inflation are working; inflation here has now converged to euro area norms. Th...
BRIAN COWEN Last year I got into a slump at a bad time because our team was desperate. We were losing a lot of g...
DENNYS REYES Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gro...
GAIL WILENSKY We have had a good year. We've already surpassed last year. We're up about 12 percent over last year...
TOM JANKOVSKY Based on the relationship between the stocks-to-use ratio and price since 1998-99, a price of $2.51 ...
DARREL GOOD We have only restored 81.5 percent (of the 2002-03 funding allocation) this year.
JOANNE VAVREK Wages have been outpacing inflation. However, we're also seeing more layoffs this year than we did l...
MARIO DEROSE We were able to maintain 6 percent growth this year despite increase of world oil prices, tsunami ef...
SARATH AMUNUGAMA Last year at this time, we had 5,140 students, so we stayed within five percent of that, which is wh...
JOE BARKER In its first year of operation, the Denver project has seen an 18 percent increase in recycling.
LYNN BROWN We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER The underlying growth opportunity of the Internet is enormous. We have only about 40 percent penetra...
BOB GRANDHI We have about 85 percent of our team back from last year, so we're pretty deep in a lot of spots. We...
DUKE DURLAND This has doubled or even tripled in the last year and a half, ... The diesel price has tripled so th...
BILL GRANT There have been 2 to 4 percent price increases among the larger toy manufactures in the U.S. this ye...
ANTHONY GIKAS Given how well inflation is doing, I think that there is still room for the central bank to cut afte...
GRAY NEWMAN Since the demand will keep mounting in the market, the prices could jump more than 3 percent on a ye...
DAVID KIM We went 3-8 my first year and 1-9 my second year. But I think we'll be a lot more competitive this y...
JAKE WEINGARTZ Everyone doesn't necessarily spend 100 percent of their budget amounts in a given year.
BRAD WHEELER To only have 35 percent of average rainfall at this time of year is extreme.
BILL SAMMLER Over the past year, core intermediate goods inflation has been nearly 5 percentage points higher tha...
BILL DUDLEY We needed a game like this and not another 30-point blowout. We missed a lot of easy shots and shot ...
ED COSTLEY Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.
BOB BURKE Though this news is clearly a disappointment, we believe that the damage is largely done and the 10 ...
JAMI RUBIN Batavia is targeting at least 85 percent to 90 percent this year.
ANTON SITUMEANG That prevalence dropped to 26.4 percent at one year and remained stable. Not wanting to be seen undr...
MARTIN BINKS Compliant records data is presently estimated to grow over 60 percent per year, generating more than...
FRED MOORE There are fewer and fewer smokers every year. Also, studies show that as the prices of cigarettes go...
DERYK PARKER The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON He's telling you the Fed's probably got more room to continue to hike, but inflation is not going to...
JAMES CARON Student bus ridership was up 30 percent last academic year. We hope to see that improve even more.
CINDY CAMPBELL Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH When I take the drought [in the Midwest] this summer with the orange juice situation, I feel more co...
ANTHONY CHAN The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I...
ESMAEL ADIBI It?s a great show. Last year we got 90 percent of the state champions to compete.
HARRY MONDALE
A year ago some said that the doubling of oil prices would push our inflation far beyond target and ... GORDON BROWN He sells it as a big program but it is only a 1.6 percent raise for teachers.
DAVID KOCHMAN Although San Miguel B has fallen 12 percent from its peak in July last year, we believe that the iss...
LEO VENEZUELA Clearly the volatility in the market has just been unbelievable. The Nasdaq in this week alone going...
BRIAN PISKOROWSKI It's going just as everyone has been expecting. We'll probably see the year-on-year (CPI) increase j...
SEIJI ADACHI One of the big differences between our team this year and last year is that we are hitting a lot bet...
BEAU JARRELL Handheld platforms were the big story last year, and so far this year, that segment of the industry ...
ANITA FRAZIER Even more surprising was the amount (played on baccarat), $426 million, up 107 percent over last yea...
FRANK STRESHLEY Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
SUSAN RICE It isn't a market that has matured, but there is more interest. Given where inflation has been - I'v...
CASEY COLTON We are 30 percent over what we were last year.
BRENDA RYANS Brian Griese took a big step last year, completing 69.3 percent of his passes,
JON GRUDEN The evidence continues to mount that the economy is picking up a little bit but current levels -- 5....
JOSH STILES The first provided a 10 percent signing bonus and a pay increase of 3 percent in the first year and ...
CHARLIE MCDONALD
I think we've gotten to a point where we're becoming really sensitive to things like body dy... 
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In a time of destruction, create something. 
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