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BROOKS DEXTER
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DAN FELLMAN But China cannot be complacent, ... In the last year its GDP grew nine percent, but energy use incre...
IAN LOWE It used to be a 25 percent local, 75 percent federal and state grant. This year, for the first time,...
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SVEN LOFQUIST The evidence continues to mount that the economy is picking up a little bit but current levels -- 5....
JOSH STILES Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pr...
HENNING KAGERMANN While growth in sales of mobile devices are likely to slow, we expect TV sales to increase by more t...
EIICHI KATAYAMA About 95 percent of the time, weather is an unrealistic excuse, ... Less than 5 percent of the time,...
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CHRISTOPHER SEEGER Merck calculated cardiovascular warnings would cost the company 50 percent of its profits through 20...
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CHARLES JONES The worry with this is that 50 percent of its revenue is coming from Airbus - and the commercial air...
HOWARD WHEELDON The worry with this is that 50 percent of its revenue is coming from Airbus, and the commercial airl...
HOWARD WHEELDON The only thing we can go by is sales and that increases 10 to 12 percent every year.
MACK BRADLEY Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
SUSAN RICE Overall, we still see the official cash rate being increased by around 1.25 percent in total, bring ...
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JEFFREY KLINEFELTER
[Another pick is New Era of Networks ( NEON ).] This is a stock that was doing very, very well, and ... SHAWN JOHNSON
we are well on our way to our goal of 50 percent online - and actually think that after 50 percent i... MICHAEL DELL In the last period, we saw almost a 50 percent increase. We're going to watch the sales of the remai...
JAMIE MILLER We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50...
GRAY DAVIS We strongly encourage people to purchase because 50 percent goes to the artist ... and the other 50 ...
DENNIS PAUL BATT The estimates are for earnings to be down 50 percent in the second quarter, 37 percent in the third ...
CHUCK HILL It was negotiated at a different time, when Ford certainly didn't envision their market share going ...
CRAIG HUTSON This is not a high-yielding fund relative to its category. The median yield of the utility funds we ...
DAVID KATHMAN Ford Field was designed to save approximately 15 percent on energy costs.
ANDY ACHO I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.
KEVIN P. RYAN low to mid-50 percent.
CISCO SYSTEMS By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul...
JEFF SACKS And when I have sales I promote them at 50 percent off that price.
KRISTINE FAUERBACH Other than seasonal weakness, the New Taiwan dollar's recent appreciation is expected to cost TSMC 4...
LORA HO The biggest positive was handset margins, which came in at 4 percent, up from 1.5 percent last quart...
MARK MCKECHNIE It's 50 percent for softball, 50 percent for fun. It allows us to see some quality teams and play in...
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WENDELIN WIEDEKING We're averaging about 30 percent mortality per year, or 70 percent of birds released are surviving. ...
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MARK ALBRECHT We just came off a show in South Bend where consumer attendance was up about 50 percent from the yea...
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LARRY PONEMON There is an increased intensity in the trend towards packet-switched equipment, ... Lucent gets abou...
MARTIN PYYKKONEN We are expecting a 30 percent increase this year (in total sales).
HU YONG The rate of (mental) decline was reduced by 10 percent to 13 percent per year among persons who cons...
CLARE MORRIS Next year, 50 percent of car (models) in the world will have PowerPCs.
MICHEL MAYER In 2005, we delivered our third consecutive year of exceptional growth, resulting in record revenue ...
DAVE GOULD Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We n...
MICHAEL LINENBERG You're going to see anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent staff savings, just from system managemen...
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LI DEQUAN
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ALAN HOLMER
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen... STEW LEONARD
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ANIELA ORR We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when h...
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HONG LIANG Ford has been able to run essentially unopposed. All through the strike GM's main concern was the ne...
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