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CATHY KEEFE
MAX MESSMER Consumption continues to rise on higher farm incomes, rising employment and increasing consumer loan...
AMPON KITTIAMPON These are important numbers, particularly the one on employment costs. There's some concern about ri...
ADAM BLANKMAN Given rising health care costs and limited financial resources, we want to optimize the use of those...
JOYCE LEE Why do we fall down? so we can rise up and become stronger, better, people than we were before we fe...
GARY F EVANS... Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration ...
RIC KELLER
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses f... JIM RAMSTAD We haven't ever before seen such sharp increases in costs as over the past two years. It's more than...
EIVIND REITEN
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising... MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... This approval is another example of our agency's endeavor to counter rising health care costs by app...
DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB
The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising... JIM RYUN We have tremendous concerns in three areas: transportation, because of rising fuel costs; utilities,...
WAYNE BLANTON The country is forced to devote more than $450 billion each year to health care costs and other expe...
CHRISTINE CRONK With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in ex...
ERNST ENGEL There’s perhaps no barometer as credible as the employment provided data per month to gauge the ec...
ANUJ SOMANY The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and s...
GREGORY KLUMP Employment is likely to be much weaker going forward and the jobless rate will keep rising as the ec...
JARROD KERR
The main driver this week for the dollar has been the paring back of Fed rate expectations. The doll... GREG ANDERSON As a result of a rising interest rate environment which is a positive for a bank like Frost with ...
DICK EVANS We're proud of our record fourth-quarter results and fourth consecutive year of double-digit earning...
KEN THOMPSON
In any year, there is always a certain percentage of dealers losing money. [Rising ] interest rates ... PAUL TAYLOR By increasing the cigarette tax, Tennessee will reduce smoking, save lives and help offset the risin...
JEANETTE SCHATZ The magnitude of the increase will have implications for the total area available to plant the sprin...
DARREL GOOD We have solid employment growth, stable interest rates and rising immigration. They are all supporti...
BOB CUNNEEN This is the third consecutive year China has achieved government's goal of employment and re-employm...
HU XIAOYI Employers are significantly more optimistic about hiring than they were a year ago, when 33 percent ...
JOSEPH TUERFF The Parkersburg/Marietta area employment outlook is stronger than the fourth quarter forecast when 2...
SANDY BROWN [Even with the rising costs, the travel industry is having its best year since before 2001.] Last ye...
AMY ZIFF Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has dem...
ATUL GAWANDE In 1992, we were spending about $2,400 per year per person in the United States on health care. In P...
LARRY COOK
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only... JANET YELLEN Building 200,000 new residences per year, not to mention the current interest in fixing up existing ...
CHRISTOPHER THORNBERG Stockton continues to exhibit job growth well in excess of the state average, and unemployment is 1....
SEAN SNAITH We have the lowest average wage rate of any metropolitan area we compete with. This might sound good...
BOB ABBERGER
Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficul... CHRISTIE HEFNER Jet fuel prices have been rising even faster than crude oil prices for the last year, but it was the...
DAN GARTON If someone had said to us a year ago: 'Would you be happy with investment growth of 15 percent over ...
ANDREW STEER This summer's hurricanes served as a trigger point to start slightly slower economic growth. Higher ...
ED SULLIVAN Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other c...
ED STEADHAM That is really the only sector in this employment outlook where you can see a softening that is carr...
JONAS PRISING The federal government's near-term fiscal improvements give us the chance and the responsibility to ...
SCOTT MILBURN I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the who...
CLIVE GRANGER The economy is definitely making a transition. I think 1998 will be viewed as the year of soft landi...
BRUCE STEINBERG People need direction, change. They need a government that caters for the people’s needs and not f...
JOSEPH MUSCAT The weakness in the stock price, despite the better-than-expected earnings, is due to the company sa...
DANA L. TELSEY
Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We have lots of homes for upper income people, but the middle class is being squeezed stagnant wages...
GLEN LEWINSKI The total package, including health care, is 3.9 percent.
BILL HART Medical costs are rising significantly, so the fact that we offered a zero percent increase was subs...
TINA LANGE We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when h...
JOHN ARNOLD Every year tuition is reviewed and if tuition goes up, it is usually due to rising costs and general...
CATHY ANDREEN The year-over-year gain of 1.7 percent reinforces the sense that the current series of Fed rate hike...
JOHN LONSKI This is a situation that could have impact on our employment levels as the year progresses.
DEREK MCLUCKEY While we were able to continue generating revenue growth, this was offset by ongoing weakness in the...
DAVID RAYBURN Three of the four regional projections are in line with the national Net Employment Outlook. Western...
LORI PROCHER The most important reason for rising costs is that we are so good at developing new ways to diagnose...
ALAN GARBER Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workfor...
PALLAM RAJU This cost-of-living adjustment is being eaten up by rising gasoline and heating costs, another doubl...
BILL NOVELLI As employers continue to struggle with the rising costs of providing health benefits to current and ...
CATHY SCHOEN Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical c...
MALCOLM FRASER These figures reflect the rather mixed picture of recent months. Employment is up by nearly 200,000 ...
MARGARET HODGE The rise in the employment component, combined with the drop in new jobless claims reported earlier ...
GARY THAYER [Much of that imported oil leaves the country soon after it arrives.] The economy is growing at just...
MICHAEL CHAMBERS The results of our 2004 program were so successful that we are extending it to a six-month period th...
BOB GRECZYN We want to drive our cars and we want to do so one car per person. We have not changed our habits de...
MITCH PALLY A net 17 percent of small employers plan to increase employment in the next three months, indicating...
WILLIAM DUNKELBERG Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red ta...
JOHN SHADEGG The expansion in these two segments is due to rising spending power among women, as female online sh...
HAZEL CHEN
In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasol... GARY MILLER
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equate... BETTY WILLIAMS We expect 2006 to be the year that 2005 should have been. We project strong employment growth 2 p...
LYSSA JENKENS The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mista...
LOREN WEISMAN Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"
"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
ERIC JEROME DICKEY Everybody's wrestling with rising health care costs and so are we. This is an 80-20 co-insurance pla...
ED STEADHAM
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS
Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no... MARGARET ATWOOD Having a physician lose his employment and potentially lose his ability to obtain employment anywher...
JANE ORIENT Iraq's economy is forecasted to grow at a rate of 4 percent this year, and accelerate into the doubl...
HEATHER LAYMAN People want to spend more but this may not continue into the future. For one thing incomes aren't ri...
ANDREAS REES
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be ... EDMUND PHELPS As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising co...
MICHAEL K. SIMPSON As far as energy prices and core consumer prices, so far it is all smoke and no fire. Rising energy ...
CHRIS RUPKEY Every year we give $3,000 scholarship money back to the college.
WES PFADENHAUER Employers expect less hiring activity than in the first quarter when 30 percent of the companies int...
JOSEPH TUERFF It's been the fuel costs that have hurt farmers more than anything. For example, the increased costs...
BOB WELLS Nearly 40 percent of home care givers do not have health insurance.
CHERYL DETRICK The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.
DWAYNE SLAY Over the past 10 years we've experienced tremendous growth in respiratory sales, averaging close to ...
DENNIS COOK In the rush to contain health-care costs, the response of health plans has been to raise costs for p...
DANA GOLDMAN
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent. EDWARD DE BONO Rising costs of wood, energy and chemicals over the past three years have led to a significant deter...
DOMINIC GAMMIERO Online job availability in the UK rose sharply in February, after the slump in January 2006. This is...
ALAN TOWNSEND Given what illegal immigration costs each year, given that 30 percent of inmates in our federal pris...
JOE KASPER Foreign companies are mostly worried about the possibility of rising costs.
CHRISTIAN DOERINGER
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We anticipate Japanese companies will try to compete in hiring good workers, driving up wages. Impro...
TAKUJI AIDA We know that if people are confident in their discretionary income and the health of the economy, th...
CATHY KEEFE
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