Increasing the price to the customer is typically not a good idea. We're not in favor of a 'take-out' increase.

Everybody likes to start the New Year out with a little good news.

I am not in favor of taking a new Berlin Wall and setting it up on the south border.

The customer is getting hammered and there is no way our salaries are increasing that fast.

Election years are typically not good for tech stocks. I'm not sure why that's the case.

To ''know your place'' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say ''stay in your place'' or ''hang on to your place,'' because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.