Our desire is to get the most economy that we can out of a given vehicle with the smallest motors and smallest battery pack that we can.

It's better to stick with the devil you know, rather than the devil you don't. I think the prospect of going out on a national search and avoiding someone that another school is trying to shovel out with the trash is real slim.

We certainly had an infrastructure with a lot of spaghetti code keeping it together, and now we have a desire for one fully integrated enterprise.

The cost of gas has dislocated the economy and is sending it offshore. There is nothing more important in this country right now.

This economy is still driven by domestic demand. And domestic demand remains very strong. The underpinnings are very favorable. And while the Asian crisis will slow growth a little bit, it will not derail the expansion.

Looking back on it now, I don't see how we had the desire and the determination to keep going back because we kept getting knocked down, knocked down, knocked down,'' said Tony Glover, who joined the team late in 1983 and stayed until 1996.