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Consequently, the company believes that while it can sustain positive comparable store sales increases, the increases will not be at the level reported over the past 13 months.

This win allows us to go through to the next round. We did a great effort and we hope to defend the title. This team has discipline and good tactics, and its comparable to top European teams. We are well prepared.

We are cautious about the next quarter. We want to see business PC demand pick up, and the next quarter is a tough comparable quarter because of last year's launch of Office 2000.

Based on objective tests of physical impairment, we found that the patients had levels of functional disability comparable to what you would see with congestive heart failure, as well as pain comparable to what you might expect in patients coming out of surgery, and fatigue comparable to patients with multiple sclerosis,

They are all comparable in performance for high-end, non-X86 architectures.

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry

The wind resource in the United States is comparable to the oil resource in Saudi Arabia. It's a major strategic national resource we should be making every effort to develop.

While this has been a tough six months, we are intent upon improving the business by building comparable sales around the world through improved operations, effective marketing and menu development,

While we are seeing some softness in many categories, comparable sales performance in our North America retail stores continues to be impacted by weakness in desktops, laptops, monitors and printers and the related 'market basket' of higher margin goods historically linked to purchases of these items.

While we did not make this decision lightly, we believe it is necessary and in the best long-term interests of our shareowners to adopt a dividend policy comparable to the policies of our competitors,

We see it as just another lottery game that's comparable to bingo.

We see seeds of development comparable to Central America and the Caribbean five years ago. It's about to explode.

When you are playing this building game, you don't concern yourself with the ones you don't get. You concern yourself with the ones you want. There were some that went somewhere that were comparable to us, but some that went to places bigger than us.

When we made those decisions, we didn't know exactly what the economy was going to do, but it was our expectation that the economy would weaken. Our marketing and promotion budget is pretty comparable to recent years, so again we're not doing any significant additional spending behind the promotions.

Another point is that the low-end rods and reels available today are comparable to some of the higher priced models only five years ago. The technology just continues to improve.

The right use of color along with personalized messages has been proven to boost response rates by as much as 500 percent. Digital printing technology produces quality comparable to offset printing and allows for personalized, relevant information. Research shows that these elements combined can produce much higher efficiencies and returns.

It was very difficult to get comparable runs in during the morning session as there were plenty of red flags and a short spell of rain. We continued with our compound tests, however, as well as putting some very useful mileage on some revised clutch parts to prove their reliability.

We feel like it's a very comparable venue to what we are going to experience. We are watching very closely their timing of construction, how they grow the rough up, what are their restrictions on carts because everything changes from October to March.

We should be at the stage where we can make a run at the title. We have the talent level comparable to the top teams in the league, but we still have to learn how to beat them.

We should have a comparable season this year. We've worked toward that direction and we hope to continue that way.

The records reveal a large, two to five degrees Celsius temperature change in the subtropical Atlantic Ocean. That's comparable to the total change between the ice age and the present day at the same location.

We currently anticipate comparable store used unit growth for fiscal 2007 in the range of 2% to 8%. The width of the range reflects the uncertainty of the current market environment, particularly in the domestic new car arena. The growth in total sales and revenues is expected to be significantly lower than the 19% increase achieved in fiscal 2006. This decrease reflects the difference in store opening patterns. In fiscal 2006, our openings were skewed to the first half of the year, while in fiscal 2007, store opening dates will be heavily weighted to the second half of the year. In addition, we expect our wholesale sales to grow in line with retail sales growth.

Both of us had a desire to manage back then. Guys who have trained themselves properly, gone to the minor leagues and managed and paid their dues coaching for a considerable amount of time and have a great understanding of the game in all aspects. Getting interviewed as much as both of us had been, you always get that feeling that this is never going to happen. I applaud the Devil Rays for giving him an opportunity to go out there and do it. His background is comparable to anybody's. He had the interim job with the Angels a few times and did a fine job.

Even today, the prices in Shanghai are significantly less than any other comparable capital on a global or Asian basis,

Even if the ratings were disappointing, some 22 (million) to 25 million people a night were watching the Olympics. Those are comparable number to what 'Survivor' was doing, and we all declared 'Survivor' the biggest media thing since bread was sliced.

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations, with February results comparable to those in the prior year.

Operators are looking for reliability and performance at the access layer that is comparable to what they enjoy at the edge and core, but without added cost. Compact and affordable MPLS / VPLS access solutions can be particularly liberating for small service providers and municipal network operators for whom the cost barrier is disproportionately high.

Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.

Some entertainers simply don't know much about history. The fact is that there were no Jews in Hitler's hierarchy, the policies of America and Israel are not similar to those of Hitler, and African-American conservatives are not comparable to Nazis.

Bad weather and the war did affect Lowe's sales in the quarter. That's the logical assumption. But whether that was 100 percent of the reasons for disappointing sales remains to be seen. If Home Depot reports better earnings and the comparable sales gap between Home Depot and Lowe's narrows, that will raise questions,

The mistake they made was hanging everything on the question of who killed Laura Palmer. In our show there is not one overriding question comparable to that. There are a series of mysteries: what is the nature of the island, what is the monster, what is the hatch, who are the mysterious 'other people'? Making sure that some of those mysteries are answerable over time is the way to prevent that frustration.

Although the earnings of the private bank did not increase from those of the comparable period, this entity met expectations after taking account of the restructuring exercise. The restructuring enables the delivery of an enhanced service offering to a larger number of customers.

Perhaps no hall of comparable size anywhere has served so nobly as a spawning ground for young talent and, it must be said, as a graveyard for the hopes of the mediocre.

Our comparable store sales results for the quarter exceeded those of our traditional and luxury department store peers, ... This performance reflects implementation of our customer-focused strategies.

Far too few retailers have moved beyond the classic metric of comparable store sales increases to measure the annual or even lifetime value of a customer. Hyper-educated consumers have higher expectations for their retail experience, and hyper-sensitive shareholders have higher expectations for results.

Even higher critics have often admitted that the tenth chapter of Genesis is a remarkably accurate historical document. There is no comparable catalog of ancient nations available from any other source. It is unparalleled in its antiquity and comprehensiveness.

Without the Soviet Union's material base, Russia now is playing the part of a global power comparable to the United States. The current Russian elite shares a Soviet vision of the world ... and it's trying to imitate Soviet diplomatic efforts.

This will put industrial (permitting process) on an equitable playing field with residential and will make us more comparable with other regions.

I've always felt Albuquerque has good basketball, and last year proved that. Albuquerque and El Paso are very comparable in talent. Now it's time to see how we stack up again.

This discovery implies that brown dwarf companions to average, sunlike stars exist at a separation comparable to the distance between the sun and the outer planets in our solar system.

This is the great crisis in Western culture; there's nothing comparable to it. How it could have happened, the level of responsibility that people take for it, I think, is still the great issue.

This is an exciting proposal. We have not found a comparable project with housing above (it) in a (similar-size) community.

This is an important statement which I have already shared with the U.S. government, ... As the recent tragic attack on Sarajevo has demonstrated, peace will not come easily, but there is good reason to take Karadzic's statement and put it to the test, and to seek comparable efforts from all the other parties involved, to move rapidly to talks.

This is an impressive transaction by any real estate standards, ... In terms of dollars invested, it is comparable to the 1999 Merchandise Mart Properties acquisition of Market Square.

This is not comparable to 2000. If we were talking 3,000 or 4,000 votes, it'd be a big story. But I think the markets will perceive this as a temporary delay of the inevitable.

In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.

In 2001, we are focused on building comparable sales and returns through improved operations, people development and innovation around the world.

In Europe, comparable sales rose 3.6% in August, due to strong performance in France and Germany partly offset by continued weakness in the United Kingdom, ... We will build on this encouraging business momentum with successful customer-focused plans across Europe.

In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

If she could get work in Roanoke comparable to what she could get there, she'd be here. I think that goes for a lot of people. I think we need to provide more upscale jobs to keep our young people in Roanoke.

I'm pleased to report that our company once again posted strong results for the quarter. Revenues rose 4 percent and Adjusted Operating Income before Depreciation & Amortization (in short, OIBDA, the new metric that we are using to track profitability, which is roughly comparable to EBITDA) increased 11 percent.

If Wal-Mart's December comparable sales do go up 3 percent, that means they did much better in the last two weeks of the month,

I've heard that the Chris Madden line's pulling powerful comparable sales growth for the past six to seven months. This is a category that exploding for Penney and it's also helping boost their monthly sales higher,

At a minimum, you need to have a dataset that is easily comparable with traditional media.

Target's comparable store sales for the month of February were in line with our expectations.

The band is redefining the concert experience - there is nothing even comparable to the thrill of being onstage with the Rolling Stones and seeing a stadium show from the band's perspective,

The atmosphere was very comparable to a state football game. There were banners, rally rags, cow bells, about anything you could imagine.

It's not comparable to a seller on the high street where the customer has a choice of supply. It's a company with a dominant market position. The commission has found Microsoft to be abusing that dominant market position by failing to make its technical information available.

It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Yes, there are less expensive plans, but they don't offer comparable coverage to the union's plan.

Doesn't really matter to me. They're pretty comparable teams.

Dallas is a good situation, obviously, with Drew being there, but the numbers have to be comparable or more.

Derek Jeter, in his rookie year, put up numbers comparable to the rest of his career. Not exactly the same. But comparable. Check it out.

It's pretty amazing. This stretch is comparable to when we won 20 in a row (in 2002). It's just a great bunch of guys in this clubhouse who really like playing together. There's such good chemistry, and that's probably part of the reason we've been able to turn it around.

It sounds like there's some comparable numbers there and it's encouraging. It's healthy that it's 15 percent, given that it's very early on in the process of this. I have no doubt that number will go up given increased publicity of this program.

The capacity of workers, after being displaced, to find a new job that will eventually provide nearly comparable pay most often depends on the general knowledge of the worker and the ability of that individual to learn new skills,

The insurgency is still mounting an effort comparable to where they were a year ago. We do something we think will change things, but a month or two later casualties and the level of violence are back to where they were.

They came up with a car that looked so good that people were willing to buy it, even though they weren't sure about Chrysler quality, and they gave it a price that is similar to what a comparable Japanese car would be.

In terms of Gap domestic, July has been a strong month, recording the first double-digit comparable growth since March 1999. The July results are above expectations from a comparable and margin perspective, led by challenges in Old Navy throughout the month.

In terms of how much actual use is made of the networked resources, our school's use of the Internet is comparable to that of a university.

But higher costs were enough to hit operating income in the quarter, which grew only 7 percent, compared to a 7.4 growth rate for the comparable nine months. Despite these issues, the quarter held up very well and the holiday quarter should hold up nicely,

But with its new initiatives, Home Depot has done a good job to stem the tide of market share losses to Lowe's. That's a risk for Lowe's, although Lowe's still leads in comparable store sales.

These planes are essentially real aircraft. Everything you have to do to operate them is comparable to flying a full-scaled airplane; we just stand on the ground to operate it.

They've had a few ups and downs, been consistent, found a way to win. It's been one of those years for Barry also where he's had to replace a lot of guys and get his football team back to try to compete with what they had last year. So we're two very comparable teams.

They were technically in breach then, too, because they didn't have a network contract. I don't think anybody would argue that CMT is comparable to a network.

It was a good match-up between the two teams. We're comparable to Saranac on a talent level.

It was loud in there, and really tough for us. That says a lot for Missouri. It's not comparable to the (Nebraska) Coliseum, but it's one of the top places we've played.

Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 percent last year. Sales in the first-half of this year have continued to be strong, and Pink appears to be contributing to it.

The current budget for the plant upgrade is sizable at approximately $75 million, including $56.6 million in a guaranteed construction contract. While historical system financial performance has been healthy, adequate coverage on the 2006 bonds will require a significant increase in net revenues. The city council and sanitary district boards have already approved rate increases of 32% in fiscal 2006 and an additional 59% over the next three years, to $65.68 in fiscal 2009. While high, these rates would not be the highest for comparable sanitary districts in northern California, and the rate increases have gone through the required public hearing process.

The current issue with the U.S. program is not comparable to the concerns raised in Europe. We have a program here that is successfully operating with 26 licensees and a dozen products shipping.

The fourth quarter was outstanding for deposit growth. We added $281 million of deposits, nearly doubling the level needed to fund our strong loan growth of $144 million. Our relentless focus on the highest level of customer service has generated customer satisfaction scores that continue to exceed 90%, well above the comparable industry average of 75%. This is invaluable in building deposits through customer referrals while also maintaining and growing long-term relationships with existing customers.

The good news continue to be the fact that with growth in its Hollister division, a fast-growing Internet business, a new concept coming in the third quarter and flattish comps (sales compared to last year) in the core adult business, healthy top-line growth should be sustainable. Also, Abercrombie's men's business is finally beginning to show some life after three years of negative comparable sales.

The gap has only widened in the immediate years. In 1980, China and India were comparable on data.

The flow of money into commodities is comparable with the flow of money into mutual funds in the 1980s and 1990s. It's like steroids, pumping up prices and leading people to talk about super-spikes to $100 a barrel or more.

The first-quarter comparable stores sales growth was slightly ahead of our expectations, with sales exceeding our outlook early in the quarter, but softening during the final month." ()

These have been a major advance in rheumatology, ... probably the single major advance in at least 50 years. The only thing comparable was the introduction of corticosteroids in the 1950's.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

It's always a fine line, but what we try to do is evaluate what other courses within a general 30-mile radius of Ames are charging, on a comparable type of course. Then it's just a sensitivity, where we try to stay really competitive.

It's unable to get solid revenue growth on a comparable basis. Sure it's opening new stores and getting sales growth there but it's comparable sales growth has been poor.

It's a real success story. It really is unique. I know of no comparable area in Florida. We have a real formula for turning a blighted neighborhood into a true arts community.

That's really good pricing for a nearly new property, compared to comparable 10- to 15-year-old properties for sale in the area.

They didn't sell (their homes) here and if they would have sold, they couldn't get into anything comparable there in Florida.

They played for the city league championship and lost to Simon Gratz. That was always their state championship. Nobody is comparable around here. They're interchangeable. They have big guys who can take it outside, they're super quick.

They are going to be welcome improvements. It is such a nice, historical piece of architecture. It will be nice to have a bathroom comparable to the rest of the dollhouse.

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.

It was contaminated with extremely low radiation levels. It was comparable to a normal background radiation level. We were told by regulatory agencies that it was not an issue.

It's exactly as tough as I thought it would be. To me, it's very comparable to the league we played in for seven years. It's really hard to win on the road. I haven't been surprised.

It's a solid quarter, with solid top-line sales growth and comparable store sales growth, combined with gross margin expansion. Their clients have money, and they like to spend it.

We chose them because Devils Lake is comparable in size to Valley City.