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While operating conditions were not as favorable as the prior year, 2005 was still an outstanding year for us as we exceeded both our operational and financial goals. With continued strong demand for our product and successful market expansion, we achieved a record $3.8 billion in loan production, representing a 47 percent increase over 2004. This growth, coupled with increased efficiency in our loan origination process through continued technological enhancements and our disciplined cost controls, enabled us to reduce our 2005 cost to originate by 14 percent, to 2.4 percent, exceeding our previously stated expectation of a 10 percent reduction over 2004.

We conducted an evaluation that was fair, comprehensive, had the greatest integrity and achieved the best results.

We've been shipping 64-bit chips for over 10 years, and the operating systems that go with that are mature and bug free, and are in real-time. They haven't achieved any of this yet, and already, the first product on the market is three years late. So it's going to take so long for them to learn. But we know they're headed this way.

The reason why we chose Beijing for the lab is that China has achieved remarkable progress in the research and development of Linux OS.

We want to protect what we achieved at Camp David, we don't want to waste those discussions.

With this agreement we've brought about an improvement for all families. We've achieved an improvement for families with one income and we've made it better to combine family and work.

We achieved a lot more than people thought we would. Nobody gave us any credit before the season, but if you look back, especially in the second half, I don't think we were a lot of fun to play against. We didn't make the playoffs, but the team's identity is back. We're back to what we used to be, and that's the main thing.

We achieved amazing things with $20,000 and a lot of heart.

We achieved a record year at Famous Footwear. The Famous Footwear management team did an outstanding job of execution, driving double- digit operating earnings gains through improved product assortments, good inventory management and expense control, and the effective use of themed marketing (across our advertising, in-store, and in our direct-to-customer pieces). As a result, our traffic levels were up every quarter versus last year, as customers responded well to our offerings.

We achieved a small sensation no one believed we could do.

We achieved a truly outstanding result in 2005 with record performances in both the corporate and investment banking and in the private clients and asset management business.

We achieved bulge bracket status and only Morgan Stanley is better (in terms of earnings,

We achieved excellent operating leverage at our plants as a result of the combination of this strong demand and favorable weather.

We achieved more than we expected but I am still not satisfied because I did not do a perfect lap in the traffic at the end of the session.

We achieved our fourth consecutive quarter of net income in excess of $1 billion and the highest net income ever reported by the company in a non-Christmas quarter in our history.

We achieved our goal with the Ignite ball by offering the serious player easier access to 3-piece performance. This ball is perfect for the player who is looking for lower spin and maximum distance. We also believe that it will instill confidence in players' attempts to shape shots so that they can reach greens in regulation and, ultimately, attack pins.

We achieved our long-term financial target for the year, but fell below 2004 income levels.

We achieved profitability for the first time this quarter, and we now are poised to drive broadband growth more aggressively than ever,

We achieved robust earnings growth while making significant investments in search technology, products, network capacity, sales and distribution, and most importantly, in people.

We achieved significant gross margin improvement driven by the strong performance of our recently acquired Communications Test and Measurement business,

We achieved solid results this quarter, despite more volatile market conditions and declining trading volumes, predominantly in the fixed-income markets. Furthermore, weakness in the Nasdaq, particularly technology shares, led to a decline in equity new issue activity.

We achieved some of our goals that we were looking forward to doing. Overall we made an improvement from last week, and now we can start working on cleaning things up and being really sharp.

We achieved strong results during the year, driven by strong organic growth in all our consumer and commercial client businesses. This organic growth reflects the benefits of continuing focus on the strong local relationships we have with our mid-market clients.

We achieved such a lot in England with the school dinners campaign. Could we do the same in the States? Absolutely.

We achieved this by ourselves. No parties helped us.

We achieved what we needed to achieve, we finished the race and finished well but I'm a racer and you always want to do better. I made some mistakes but overall I have to be pleased. I think for me, the record is great but the less of a female novelty that this thing becomes, the better. I'm just trying to be a race car driver and do what these guys do.

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

The potential savings achieved by moving to the lower-priced Aspen generic would be massive.

While many polling stations around the country opened late -- and maintaining the secrecy of the vote was not always achieved -- polling procedures were generally followed by election officials.

We found in Egypt a listening ear to the complexity of the problem, ... I clarified that we are ready to do what is necessary to achieve an agreement, but we have important interests, and an agreement will only be achieved if the other side demonstrates openness, seriousness and responsibility.

Unity of the different forces and particles is achieved because they all come from different kinds of vibrations of the same basic string.

We're extremely pleased by the results of our second South Florida event. The success we achieved at this auction, along with the results from our Scottsdale auction, reflects the increased popularity of classic vehicles and the automotive lifestyle experience.

We extended our considerable lead internationally and achieved a remarkable turnaround in our U.S. business,

When you step back from the moment of the loss and the pain and agony that goes with that and look back at what we achieved over the break, I think we have a lot to be proud of.

We are pleased with out performance in the fourth quarter. We met our previously announced guidance and more importantly achieved our operating margin goal. 2005 was a transition year for the company where we focused our efforts on continued revenue growth and initiatives that would deliver sustainable long-term profitable growth.

We are pleased with the progress achieved in the first quarter and believe we have made meaningful strides toward improving value for our customers and shareholders.

We are pleased with the results for the fourth quarter. We achieved record revenue and finished the year by signing an important patent licensing agreement with AMD for which payments will begin in 2006.

We are proud that, with the introduction of this new truck, we have achieved Sterling's vision of being a full-line provider of vocational trucks. Not only is this a logical next step in the growth of the company, but it also provides a platform for future product introductions.

We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.

We believe that the success achieved in assisting U.S.-based Internet companies to enter Japan can be duplicated for the U.K. and other countries.

Westinghouse is certainly pleased to have achieved this latest milestone for the AP1000, and we look forward to working with utilities both in the U.S. and worldwide to build this advanced, inherently safe plant.

We've achieved about 80 percent of what we set out to achieve through the lawsuit. The players voted unanimously for dismissal of the case.

We've achieved a good profit outcome despite softness in some of our businesses and weak revenue growth. Our profit reflects the fact that we continue to tune our business models and cost structures.

We've achieved the first task. Now we have nine months to see what we can do with our team.

We've achieved what we said we'd achieve, and we picked up pace in the first quarter.

We are pleased to have achieved our financial objectives for the fourth quarter and fiscal year. We look forward to carrying the strong momentum generated throughout 2005 into our next fiscal year.

We are pleased to have achieved this important milestone, securing an initial credit facility, for our business. This facility gives us the flexibility to leverage and grow our portfolio in a cost effective way for our shareholders. We expect the size of this facility to increase in the future.

Throughout his career, Dale has achieved an impressive track record of success in developing and implementing strategic plans to create new markets and new revenue streams. He will be instrumental in shaping, architecting, and executing our strategy of driving the storage, distribution and presentation of high definition content in the consumer environment.

Ultimately, the test is whether we've achieved better access to lower cost quality health care in that region and we think we actually have done that.

Venus Express is equipped to peer beneath the thick clouds that encircle the planet and probe the mysteries of Venus with a precision never achieved before, and find out why Venus evolved so differently to Earth.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly. It is the surprising outcome of letting go.

Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and now we have very much achieved the goal of making all content captured available to anybody in our facility on a PC.

Bill Clinton is valued by Americans for what he has achieved and how the country has prospered under his leadership. But he's also tried the patience of the American people and I don't think Americans will be sad to see him gone. Al Gore needs to send the signal that this is not about a continuation of the Clinton Administration, this is about a new Gore Administration.

Dr. Kaunda, although he was running a one-party state, was very close to the West, and that is why he achieved as much as he did. But we drifted away from the West to look for new friends.

Each has contributed mightily to the creative and artistic community, having achieved unprecedented milestones. They have raised the standard of music-making to a new level.

During this quarter, we have witnessed record breaking load factors as well as improved yields, all of which we have achieved while continuing to add capacity. This accomplishment, which is hard to attain in the airline industry, is one we have now achieved over the past three quarters.

Complacency is not on our agenda. It is certainly not our biggest danger. My players have worked very hard for what they have achieved so far. They will not allow that to creep in. Neither myself, nor the coaching staff have to do anything to prevent that. They do it themselves.

Corporate Japan is looking toward India as an incentive destination. If employees did a good job or achieved a target, a company sends them on a holiday package to India at the company's cost. For example, Suzuki Motor Corp. is sending 2,600 employees, in several groups, to India on a five-day incentive holiday this month.

Cost savings of $3.3 billion were achieved last year, which was more than our target,

We are appreciative of our partners in the university community and all they have done in recent years to tackle the problem of digital piracy at campuses across the country. Despite the progress achieved by our collaborative efforts, this remains an ever-evolving problem. We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus local area network systems or the toll this means of theft is taking on our industry.

What I've achieved now is something that I always figured I would as a kid. I've had that type of determination since I was a youngster playing around the playgrounds, getting dirty after school.

EarthLink, once again, achieved strong financial results with one of our most profitable quarters on record.

Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter day. All of us here today will never forget it.

Even though 2005 was the Company's second-best level of net income and EPS, the effects from various operational issues that arose throughout the year at our US Argo facility hurt the bottom line. However, the year had several important positives, with our South American business posting its best year ever for sales and operating income and our Asia/Africa segment continuing its recovery to near-record sales and profit levels. We also strengthened our balance sheet and achieved record operating cash flow.

You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.

We are building on the success we achieved with the formation of Global Systems and Services at the time of our merger in August 2002, as well as our recent achievements with our Human Resources leveraged service center. Continued consolidation of service groups will enable us to further capitalize on opportunities to capture efficiencies and increase the value they provide to our business units globally.

We do not, however, share the belief that any of these objectives can be achieved in the near term, given the structural impediments to rationalizing GM's cost base. These structural impediments include union contracts, legacy liabilities, and dealer agreements.

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

Every single attempt has never achieved national dominance of the political system and the reason because they don't have the deep roots in the Israeli ideological system,

Every operating division achieved strong volume growth and increased operating profits both absolutely and as a percent to sales, ... It is especially encouraging to see dollar operating profits rise strongly even in Latin America and Europe despite currency pressures.

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

I've been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It's something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It's absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought.

The timing to implement the plan is lengthy and the potential rewards are nothing different from what would be achieved by current management.

The Top-20 plan lays out what the goals are to know when we've achieved top-20 status. More than anything, it's a financial plan. Now what you need is actual strategies to bring those numbers to life.

While the MCV return equals the second-best ever monthly result for this segment achieved in May 2005, it was only 40 units below the outright record of 1 216 units set in June, and sustains the tremendous growth spurt being exhibited by this vehicle classification. In their own right, the HCV and EHCV segment results both set new records for these categories since NAAMSA redefined its truck market segmentation parameters at the beginning of 2004.

While we achieved our goal of restructuring to improve our cost base and competitiveness, we had to deal with the challenging telecommunications market,

As the Ethiopian government has reiterated on numerous occasions, it has no interest in occupying sovereign Eritrean territory and, having achieved its goals, it has withdrawn its troops accordingly.

The Sunni Arab brothers should understand that their aspirations will be achieved through political action and not violence and terrorist acts,

The Super Bowl is about generating impressions as much as anything else. We feel we've achieved our milestone.

The third-quarter and nine-months revenues not only illustrate the balance Lehman Brothers has achieved among its equity, fixed income and investment banking businesses, but also show the financial and strategic potential of new businesses the firm has been building, including private equity and high-net-worth activities,

The stability of country would not be achieved without consensus among the major three components of the Iraqi people (Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds),

These will be achieved without the risk of the integration of a large and disparate brand portfolio into our existing business, which would have disrupted our existing momentum.

The Sino-British relationship has now entered a new phase of sustained development, and achieved gratifying results, particularly in economic cooperation and trade,

These strong results reflect the first full year of the enlarged British American Tobacco Group and have been achieved by meeting our objectives of growth in international brands, improvements in margins and synergies from the merger.

The State of Ohio and Mayor Jackson's office have been extremely cooperative and helpful in bringing this project to fruition. This partnership has achieved a big win for the community, our current and future employees, and our company.

The stock now seems relatively fully priced, having largely achieved our $76 price target.

With some of our previous records, we had songs with 14 vocal tracks and three pianos. We just wanted to strip some of that back and make a record we could (easily reproduce) live. And we achieved that. We were just in London and played the album from start to finish.

What should be achieved is increasing confidence between the parties and agreement for a new meeting.

When we just started we were concentrated on impressive graphics with our products. Currently, we are number one on web templates market. We achieved this position because of premium quality of graphics of our templates mainly. However, they were not ideal if to examine them from a tech point of view. Now the situation is so that we can proceed with improving this side of our production process. This is why we started this new product line. Stretched templates also known as liquid templates are available as both HTML templates and Flash templates.

We've indicated quite clearly what the U.N. has achieved and has done since the passage of Resolution 1483. And we have also indicated and spelled out the areas where the U.N. can make further contributions.

The scale of the organization astounds me. They had men carry kits with pieces 10 feet long and 8 to 12 inches thick across the desert to reassemble into ships on the edge of a sea that is still difficult to sail today. To have the manpower and supply line to equip the shipyard there and sail five or so ships on the Red Sea, and to have the knowledge to use the currents and winds to return safely, would be tough today, and they achieved it without GPS, cell phones or computers, not to mention the combustion engine.

These 10 seconds do not mean anything; for me, they have the same value of the six second bonus Roberto achieved before.

These actions have been designed to adjust our costs to softening global market conditions and, as the market recovers, to restore the trend of improved profitability that we had achieved over the last two years.

The Wayne County Prosecutor's office has been very aggressive in this case and we have every confidence that they will prevail in this case and some sense of justice will be achieved for Sal and his family.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

I very much hope the success that's already been achieved will help Wells get over the finishing line and raise the money still required.

There will likely be ads, either national or local, and that will be determined in the days coming up. We are basically going to be consistent with the policy we've been following for the last 10 years against many of the milestones that have been achieved in baseball.

With house prices still looking robust, the chance of the bank cutting rates is slim. They are not going to jeopardize the soft landing they achieved for the housing market last year.

What was achieved was a minor correction to their current status,