A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Three years she grew in sun and shower,/ Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower/ On earth was never sown;/ This child I to myself will take;/ She shall be mine, and I will make/ A Lady of my own.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Some of those standards are fairly onerous even to sophisticated, highly litigious businesses.

During this period in rebuild mode, we've seen our growth rate on the base business decline to the 15 to 20 percent range, ... It's not where we want to be, and in 2006, we expect to return to historical levels of growth.