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If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).
RAINER GUNTERMANN I think we probably finished 2005 in slightly better shape than we were in 2004, but not much.
BILL EISER The volume was slightly higher than we were expecting. And they're passing through costs.
ELI LUSTGARTEN We are expecting continued sales and earnings growth in 2006 as a result of the 22 acquisitions in 2...
IRV KIPNES North America was stronger than I was anticipating in terms of bookings growth. While the reported r...
ERIK SUPPIGER The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent,
KAMAL SHARMA![]()
Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyo...
WERNER HEISENBERG We're expecting premiums to continue moderate. The increase in 2005 should be smaller than last year...
JEANNE SALVATORE The economies around the world have been slightly stronger than we anticipated.
DICK EVANS In the first quarter, the worldwide electrical and hydraulics markets were stronger than we had expe...
ALEXANDER CUTLER In the past, the market has absorbed home price increases with household income growth. Well, we had...
J. LENNOX SCOTT The numbers look okay. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecti...
STUART GORDON Sales of especially our new systems will grow clearly by two-digit rates annually until 2015.
BERND BOHR January trade numbers appeared stronger than expected, in line with global growth momentum.
HONG LIANG This is much stronger growth than the market expected.
HONG LIANG Future growth looks a little less robust than analysts had been expecting.
JAMELAH LEDDY Our profit growth was a bit stronger than we expected.
DON BLAIR There were two key trends in the global wireless market in 2005. First, emerging markets contributed...
PHIL KENDALL For guidance it's not so bad. They are looking for low double-digit percentage growth in EBITDA. We ...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE It's pretty good job growth. Revised numbers show job growth was stronger than we thought in the sec...
HOWARD ROTH Growth was a little stronger than the previous year ... what we are seeing is strong and consistent ...
ALAN MEISTER There is still very good growth opportunities, although slightly slower than what they were the past...
WENDY ABRAMOWITZ Ericsson's results for the fourth quarter were acceptable. Sales growth was stronger than anticipate...
GREGER JOHANSSON In terms of pluses, the industry's current profitability is slightly above average, demand is strong...
ANDREW WEST Our 2005 financial results were very disappointing. We continued to face a stronger Canadian dollar,...
ARNOLD NEMIROW By and large we've ended up better than many of the forecasts that were made at the beginning of 200...
EDWARD MENASHY Revenues turned the corner and were up slightly from last year, driven by significant year-to-year g...
ANDY BRYANT We've seen kind of blase growth since the bottom fell out in 2001; it's nice to see that throughout ...
BRAD NISBET It was a great quarter for the company. Revenue growth was much stronger than anticipated.
ANDREA WILLIAMS The unemployment rate has increased only slightly by 0.5% from 26.2% in September 2004 to 26.7% in S...
LIZ GAVIN In 2005, we delivered our third consecutive year of exceptional growth, resulting in record revenue ...
DAVE GOULD The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,
CHRIS LIDDELL The guidance for underlying revenue growth at Pearson Education and Penguin looks slightly lower tha...
CHARLES PEACOCK That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were s...
DORSEY FARR Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old...
GREG BEAR Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.
FIRAS ASKARI They were bigger and stronger. We've done OK playing bigger and stronger teams, but these guys were ...
AMY FROESS The market is still growing. But the growth rate in 2005 moderated a little bit from the previous ye...
MASAHIRO KAWAI Growth was slightly better than we had expected, chiefly due to resilient domestic demand such as co...
ATSUSHI TAKEDA The capital expenditure numbers were stronger than expected.
HIROKAZA YUIHAMA The demand is higher at this point than people were expecting.
EVAN WILSON The company's sequential sales performance benefited from growth in digital consumer and automotive ...
CARLO BOZOTTI They're a year older, stronger and bigger and we're expecting a battle.
TONY JOHNSON Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided...
BIBLE![]()
The bottom line for German growth this year is that recovery momentum is flagging with GDP likely to...
DAVID BROWN The story was more gracious than we were expecting after hearing all the interview hype. Everybody w...
DEAN STOYER Once again, UPS reported stronger-than-expected volume growth but was not able to leverage that grow...
EDWARD WOLFE We now believe The Knot can sustain higher long term revenue and cash flow growth rates than we had ...
WILLIAM MORRISON The increase appears to be due to stronger than expected organic growth, an area of recent concern f...
JEFFREY CIANCI Time Warner Cable should again experience a strong growth quarter. Cable subscriber net additions we...
KATHY STYPONIAS For the year overall, Canada -- although showing some slight decline -- appears to be having a stron...
DARREL RYCE They came in with a different game plan than what we were expecting and executed it like they were s...
DONALD WALKER The volume was stronger than we were looking for.
ANN GURKIN The PBX market came in at our expectations in 2005, and from a global perspective is doing very well...
MATTHIAS MACHOWINSKI Here in Jamaica the growth is expected to be slightly below three per cent in 2006/2007.
ALEX IBRAHIM Both companies did much better than we were expecting ? they really beat estimates.
DHARMO SOEJANTO We were expecting this quarter to be weak and it actually came in a little softer than expected.
FLEUR GROSE The public health units are much stronger than they were,
GEORGE SMITHERMAN They're great images. They're what all of us were hoping for - better than some people were expectin...
ALFRED MCEWEN Both 2005 and 2006 will represent an extended two-year period of moderate growth before the market r...
GARY GRANDBOIS Expecting job growth on the order of about 150,000 in December, financial markets were taken aback, ...
AMY CUTTS Expecting job growth on the order of about 150,000 in December, financial markets were taken aback, ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The Mountain States region experienced growth significantly higher than the rest of the nation. The ...
ERNIE GOSS What's been driving the valuation has been an expectation of really strong applications revenue grow...
GRETCHEN TEAGARDEN The economic environment remained supportive of overall loan growth in 2005, while the rate of growt...
CRAIG BENNETT Demand is strong. Rate growth is even stronger.
DUANE VINSON Better performance fees than we were expecting have driven the earnings number sharply higher.
GEOFF MILLER![]()
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itse...
EMANUEL CELLER He has gotten bigger and stronger and we are expecting a lot out of him.
DAVID SALIBA We're off to a great start in fiscal 1999, with trading volumes and account growth during the first ...
JOE RICKETTS [It's] good news because liquidation of inventories sets the stage for stronger orders, stronger pro...
HENRY WILLMORE Last November, we thought that 2004 was going to be the peak year for real estate excise tax, ... We...
DWIGHT DIVELY Mouser grew sales 30% in 2005 and over the past five years our compound annual growth rate was 22%. ...
KEVIN HESS In Brazil, the last four years have showed virtually no growth at all. Our expectations are for grow...
CARLO PANUNZI Quality was not as high as we would have hoped. Company operated margins were lower than we were exp...
LARRY MILLER Winning or losing by three points means one wrestler is slightly better than the other. I thought we...
AARON SARRA I haven't found that many differences playing in America as opposed to playing in Europe. In my eyes...
IAN POULTER Slightly, to my mind, implies 3- to 5-percent growth. I think most people were looking at the 7- to ...
DAN NILES We competed the best we could out there. They were stronger than we were on Saturday.
LESLEY SHEEHAN![]()
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force...
HERMANN HESSE The answers to the questions of 1979-80 were very different than what we are expecting in the months...
BYRON CALLAN Our same-store sales growth in the month of August was slightly above our planned range for the mont...
BOB ULRICH Company same-store sales growth in the month of August was slightly above our planned range for the ...
BOB ULRICH This confirms my pessimistic scenario of a 0.9 percent growth for 2004 and consumer spending recover...
EMMANUEL FERRY Earnings may surprise on the upside because of stronger than anticipated credit growth. There's been...
JACK CHEMELLO Given the reserve addition in 2004 and the fact that trends in asbestos litigation have not deterior...
JAY COHEN Our team speed is exceptional. I think we'll be slightly stronger this year at the three, four and f...
MICHAEL ROBERTSON Existing home sales were stronger than expected and that is providing an offset.
GEORGE DAVIS Overall, we achieved solid results in 2005, with strong income growth in our tobacco businesses part...
LOUIS CAMILLERI The results are generally in line with expectations. But growth in net profit in 2006 will not be as...
FAISAL HASAN It had been debated for some time whether 2005 or 2006 would be the bottom year in the downside of t...
GARY GRANDBOIS We were expecting more snow. I would rather deal with 19 inches of snow than this stuff.
BOB ZIFF Based on the performance in 2005 and what is on the horizon, the growth will be sustainable for this...
JAIME YSMAEL People were expecting weak retail sales, they were already in the stocks.
JIM VOLK The actual data of 2005 shows emissions were lower than expected. This is good news for the environm...
BARBARA HELFFERICH I think it was what we were expecting. I don't think it was what students were expecting.
HEATHER HILLMAN![]()
...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force....
HERMANN HESSE I'm not expecting this November to be any different than it normally is, but it's unlikely we'll see...
JEFFREY HIRSCH The dimension of the current Five Year Plan (2001-2005) ending on December 31, 2005, entails economi...
ABDULNABI MACKI Behind this revenue range is an expectation that our unit sell-through will be slightly higher than ...
JUDY BRUNER
RAINER GUNTERMANN I think we probably finished 2005 in slightly better shape than we were in 2004, but not much.
BILL EISER The volume was slightly higher than we were expecting. And they're passing through costs.
ELI LUSTGARTEN We are expecting continued sales and earnings growth in 2006 as a result of the 22 acquisitions in 2...
IRV KIPNES North America was stronger than I was anticipating in terms of bookings growth. While the reported r...
ERIK SUPPIGER The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent,
KAMAL SHARMA
Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyo... WERNER HEISENBERG We're expecting premiums to continue moderate. The increase in 2005 should be smaller than last year...
JEANNE SALVATORE The economies around the world have been slightly stronger than we anticipated.
DICK EVANS In the first quarter, the worldwide electrical and hydraulics markets were stronger than we had expe...
ALEXANDER CUTLER In the past, the market has absorbed home price increases with household income growth. Well, we had...
J. LENNOX SCOTT The numbers look okay. The EPS (earnings per share) is slightly better than what people were expecti...
STUART GORDON Sales of especially our new systems will grow clearly by two-digit rates annually until 2015.
BERND BOHR January trade numbers appeared stronger than expected, in line with global growth momentum.
HONG LIANG This is much stronger growth than the market expected.
HONG LIANG Future growth looks a little less robust than analysts had been expecting.
JAMELAH LEDDY Our profit growth was a bit stronger than we expected.
DON BLAIR There were two key trends in the global wireless market in 2005. First, emerging markets contributed...
PHIL KENDALL For guidance it's not so bad. They are looking for low double-digit percentage growth in EBITDA. We ...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE It's pretty good job growth. Revised numbers show job growth was stronger than we thought in the sec...
HOWARD ROTH Growth was a little stronger than the previous year ... what we are seeing is strong and consistent ...
ALAN MEISTER There is still very good growth opportunities, although slightly slower than what they were the past...
WENDY ABRAMOWITZ Ericsson's results for the fourth quarter were acceptable. Sales growth was stronger than anticipate...
GREGER JOHANSSON In terms of pluses, the industry's current profitability is slightly above average, demand is strong...
ANDREW WEST Our 2005 financial results were very disappointing. We continued to face a stronger Canadian dollar,...
ARNOLD NEMIROW By and large we've ended up better than many of the forecasts that were made at the beginning of 200...
EDWARD MENASHY Revenues turned the corner and were up slightly from last year, driven by significant year-to-year g...
ANDY BRYANT We've seen kind of blase growth since the bottom fell out in 2001; it's nice to see that throughout ...
BRAD NISBET It was a great quarter for the company. Revenue growth was much stronger than anticipated.
ANDREA WILLIAMS The unemployment rate has increased only slightly by 0.5% from 26.2% in September 2004 to 26.7% in S...
LIZ GAVIN In 2005, we delivered our third consecutive year of exceptional growth, resulting in record revenue ...
DAVE GOULD The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,
CHRIS LIDDELL The guidance for underlying revenue growth at Pearson Education and Penguin looks slightly lower tha...
CHARLES PEACOCK That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were s...
DORSEY FARR Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old...
GREG BEAR Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.
FIRAS ASKARI They were bigger and stronger. We've done OK playing bigger and stronger teams, but these guys were ...
AMY FROESS The market is still growing. But the growth rate in 2005 moderated a little bit from the previous ye...
MASAHIRO KAWAI Growth was slightly better than we had expected, chiefly due to resilient domestic demand such as co...
ATSUSHI TAKEDA The capital expenditure numbers were stronger than expected.
HIROKAZA YUIHAMA The demand is higher at this point than people were expecting.
EVAN WILSON The company's sequential sales performance benefited from growth in digital consumer and automotive ...
CARLO BOZOTTI They're a year older, stronger and bigger and we're expecting a battle.
TONY JOHNSON Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided...
BIBLE
The bottom line for German growth this year is that recovery momentum is flagging with GDP likely to... DAVID BROWN The story was more gracious than we were expecting after hearing all the interview hype. Everybody w...
DEAN STOYER Once again, UPS reported stronger-than-expected volume growth but was not able to leverage that grow...
EDWARD WOLFE We now believe The Knot can sustain higher long term revenue and cash flow growth rates than we had ...
WILLIAM MORRISON The increase appears to be due to stronger than expected organic growth, an area of recent concern f...
JEFFREY CIANCI Time Warner Cable should again experience a strong growth quarter. Cable subscriber net additions we...
KATHY STYPONIAS For the year overall, Canada -- although showing some slight decline -- appears to be having a stron...
DARREL RYCE They came in with a different game plan than what we were expecting and executed it like they were s...
DONALD WALKER The volume was stronger than we were looking for.
ANN GURKIN The PBX market came in at our expectations in 2005, and from a global perspective is doing very well...
MATTHIAS MACHOWINSKI Here in Jamaica the growth is expected to be slightly below three per cent in 2006/2007.
ALEX IBRAHIM Both companies did much better than we were expecting ? they really beat estimates.
DHARMO SOEJANTO We were expecting this quarter to be weak and it actually came in a little softer than expected.
FLEUR GROSE The public health units are much stronger than they were,
GEORGE SMITHERMAN They're great images. They're what all of us were hoping for - better than some people were expectin...
ALFRED MCEWEN Both 2005 and 2006 will represent an extended two-year period of moderate growth before the market r...
GARY GRANDBOIS Expecting job growth on the order of about 150,000 in December, financial markets were taken aback, ...
AMY CUTTS Expecting job growth on the order of about 150,000 in December, financial markets were taken aback, ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The Mountain States region experienced growth significantly higher than the rest of the nation. The ...
ERNIE GOSS What's been driving the valuation has been an expectation of really strong applications revenue grow...
GRETCHEN TEAGARDEN The economic environment remained supportive of overall loan growth in 2005, while the rate of growt...
CRAIG BENNETT Demand is strong. Rate growth is even stronger.
DUANE VINSON Better performance fees than we were expecting have driven the earnings number sharply higher.
GEOFF MILLER
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itse... EMANUEL CELLER He has gotten bigger and stronger and we are expecting a lot out of him.
DAVID SALIBA We're off to a great start in fiscal 1999, with trading volumes and account growth during the first ...
JOE RICKETTS [It's] good news because liquidation of inventories sets the stage for stronger orders, stronger pro...
HENRY WILLMORE Last November, we thought that 2004 was going to be the peak year for real estate excise tax, ... We...
DWIGHT DIVELY Mouser grew sales 30% in 2005 and over the past five years our compound annual growth rate was 22%. ...
KEVIN HESS In Brazil, the last four years have showed virtually no growth at all. Our expectations are for grow...
CARLO PANUNZI Quality was not as high as we would have hoped. Company operated margins were lower than we were exp...
LARRY MILLER Winning or losing by three points means one wrestler is slightly better than the other. I thought we...
AARON SARRA I haven't found that many differences playing in America as opposed to playing in Europe. In my eyes...
IAN POULTER Slightly, to my mind, implies 3- to 5-percent growth. I think most people were looking at the 7- to ...
DAN NILES We competed the best we could out there. They were stronger than we were on Saturday.
LESLEY SHEEHAN
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force... HERMANN HESSE The answers to the questions of 1979-80 were very different than what we are expecting in the months...
BYRON CALLAN Our same-store sales growth in the month of August was slightly above our planned range for the mont...
BOB ULRICH Company same-store sales growth in the month of August was slightly above our planned range for the ...
BOB ULRICH This confirms my pessimistic scenario of a 0.9 percent growth for 2004 and consumer spending recover...
EMMANUEL FERRY Earnings may surprise on the upside because of stronger than anticipated credit growth. There's been...
JACK CHEMELLO Given the reserve addition in 2004 and the fact that trends in asbestos litigation have not deterior...
JAY COHEN Our team speed is exceptional. I think we'll be slightly stronger this year at the three, four and f...
MICHAEL ROBERTSON Existing home sales were stronger than expected and that is providing an offset.
GEORGE DAVIS Overall, we achieved solid results in 2005, with strong income growth in our tobacco businesses part...
LOUIS CAMILLERI The results are generally in line with expectations. But growth in net profit in 2006 will not be as...
FAISAL HASAN It had been debated for some time whether 2005 or 2006 would be the bottom year in the downside of t...
GARY GRANDBOIS We were expecting more snow. I would rather deal with 19 inches of snow than this stuff.
BOB ZIFF Based on the performance in 2005 and what is on the horizon, the growth will be sustainable for this...
JAIME YSMAEL People were expecting weak retail sales, they were already in the stocks.
JIM VOLK The actual data of 2005 shows emissions were lower than expected. This is good news for the environm...
BARBARA HELFFERICH I think it was what we were expecting. I don't think it was what students were expecting.
HEATHER HILLMAN
...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force.... HERMANN HESSE I'm not expecting this November to be any different than it normally is, but it's unlikely we'll see...
JEFFREY HIRSCH The dimension of the current Five Year Plan (2001-2005) ending on December 31, 2005, entails economi...
ABDULNABI MACKI Behind this revenue range is an expectation that our unit sell-through will be slightly higher than ...
JUDY BRUNER
Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures... 
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not... 
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