The economic climate for big-ticket items like furniture will be soft going into the market. It all has to do with gas and hurricanes.

The Vegas market started out to be a replacement for a western market, but it's gone to a national scope.

It's been a difficult year. Consumers have had a lot of distractions from new electronics to gas prices. They aren't buying furniture like they had been.

In the first meeting, most likely (what) they will do is create a new atmosphere ... a climate for talks that did not exist until now.

It indicates that the reliability of the river will decrease with climate change. And that model doesn't take into account population growth and the ensuing increase in demand. We can't do business as usual.

All this climate of terror give us a clear indication of the kind of sentence that Nur will receive.