While the credit environment remains challenging, we are beginning to see a slowing of deterioration in parts of our business, ... Although this is not expected to improve credit costs in the near term, it could lead to improvement in the latter part of the year.

The business environment has deteriorated significantly. The business sector is where things are the worst at the moment, particularly in the manufacturing sector.

The economic environment looks much less favorable than we had anticipated at the beginning of the year.

We are beginning to recognize direct links between how we affect the environment -- inside and outside our four walls -- and health.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

From the beginning, this is a campaign I thought she could win. But it's become too tough an environment.