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We see growing revenue from vertical and horizontal applications developed by Salesforce.com and partners, as well as continuing momentum for the core sales force automation offering, ... We believe the deployment of these applications will result in more subscribers to Salesforce.com.

We're very disappointed but that is sevens rugby: it's core skills under the microscope. New Zealand were worthy winners.

This Skills Task Force should be a small, dynamic core of business leaders, government representatives and academics meeting to examine the problem of skills shortages in Europe. It is estimated that there will be 1.7 million vacancies in the IT sector by 2003. This European-wide approach is vital if we are to ensure we have a sufficiently skilled work force to meet the needs of the IT industry,

We think management is doing the right thing with its significant balance sheet restructuring in light of the current interest rate environment. However, the core earnings run rate has come down significantly, and the company remains spread dependent.

We think that right now we got a core group of players that are extremely hard working. Now, how good we're going to be, how many games we're going to win? That remains to be seen.

We think the biggest growth for our core business is yet to come.

When core stocks like NTT perform strongly, it really lifts the sprit of the entire market.

While it seems counterintuitive, higher gasoline prices are actually helping restrain core inflation, ... With more money being spent for gasoline, consumers have fewer dollars left for discretionary purchases. The net result is that firms are slashing prices on everything from cars to beer in order to move product.

While it's true that Sears is stuck in a sales slump for a long time, the retailer has also been in a restructuring mode, ... By getting rid of the credit business, it can finally devote all its resources to its core business. I'm convinced Sears will deliver impressive results in the next six to 12 months.

With conditions in the US economy currently ripe for pass-through of higher wage costs to consumers, the upside ahead in wage inflation points to the prospect of higher core CPI inflation.

With core consumer prices set to rise steadily above zero and today's GDP report confirming that a steady recovery is at work, there is almost no obstacle left for the Bank of Japan in ending its super-loose monetary policy.

With core CPI (at or) above zero for three months, we have entered a critical period for policy decision-making. I have no doubt about that.

With energy prices pushing up overall inflation again, there remains the risk of pass-through into core inflation.

Wrangler Unlimited expands the Jeep experience and core values freedom, adventure, mastery and authenticity to a broader range of customers who always wanted a Wrangler but also more space and versatility.

The organization's core elements still plot and make preparations for terrorist strikes against the homeland and other targets from bases in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.

The public has grown to love these characters and the fact that this culminates in a wedding might have something to do with (its audience) getting a little bit older. For the core audience, it was 92 percent in the top two boxes (excellent and very good).

Well, I certainly think it makes more sense than the music deal she announced to release CD's with Sony BMG, ... This, at least, is more in tune with her core branding. But I don't expect it to have any major financial impact in the immediate term.

We've got a good core group right there, if we can just get them all in there together.

We've got a good core of kids and we've got more who will buy into that.

There is so much momentum in consumer spending and business investment that economic growth in the third and fourth quarters will exceed 3 1/2%. Inflation may pick up a bit, but core inflation rates start at such low rates that the overall impact won't be nearly as bad as feared.

There is no sign of an immediate pass through of energy to core prices, but consumers spent with abandon considering their lack of confidence in the continued health of the economy. That is likely to bolster the Fed's fear of future inflation and reinvigorate their will to raise rates.

We've got a lot of runs that have been playing for a month, and some of these markets are over-encumbered. So there's a weakness in some of these theaters that are playing out. It's a function of normal attrition, despite the Academy awards stuff. It's the core markets that it's important to sustain.

There could be a cyclical surprise...If we see another sharp rise in core inflation or see activity data to the upside, there's a danger that the market could be caught off balance.

We wanted to sign a core of kids because we wanted to lock up a few. But we also wanted to send a message about Maine kids.

You can look at the positives and say we were building something at the end of the year. With the core of guys here, you can see a future. I know they've been saying that around here for a while, but it's pretty obvious.

We've had some people get to 106 degrees and not have symptoms and some get to 102 and have symptoms. Some guys' core temperature rises after they come off the field and stand around, and other guys it goes down when they come out. It depends on the individual.

Best Buy is one of the strongest retailers in the U.S. today. It is dominating in its core big-box consumer electronics format and has three-to-four more years of continued store expansion, which will add over $2 billion to revenues annually.

Boy, the core of our offense uses speed to get outside, and when we can make that work, it makes our life easier. So, we were very happy. Good start, good execution.

We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.

We live and breathe the four core YMCA values of honesty, respect, responsibility and caring. We try to build strong families, children and communities. We promote character development and high self-esteem on the team. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't believe in those values. I pick my coaches with the values in mind.

We have delivered a good first quarter, which provides a strong base for the rest of the year. Our Core Plus strategy is also off to a good start with growth in transaction revenues, media and emerging markets like China and India.

We have demonstrated throughout the year that we will continue to take the actions necessary to return our core business to sustainable profitability. We understand the issues, our priorities, and have the right team in place to get the job done.

Boone has run the fund seven years, his long-term record is good and he has a substantial personal investment in it, indicating his confidence in the selection process. This is a good fund for a core investment holding--even viewed apart from its social considerations.

Both core businesses, UK and International, are very well positioned for next year and our distribution arrangement, in the UK and overseas, will have a positive impact to support future profitable growth.

Bottom line is it's not flagging any inflation pressures, at least on a core basis.

Even though I will not be a part of it next year, Rays fans should look forward to the team's continued success. With this core group of young players and other promising talent coming up through the minors, the future is bright for the Devil Rays.

We had some divisiveness in the locker room, so we had to shake up what was in the shoebox. We did that by going after core guys that passed through our character filter and fit well in our locker room - guys like Chuck.

We are staying very focused on our 12-34 demographic. Twelve to 34 is and always will remain our core target.

We are surprised by the magnitude of the earnings reduction for the full year given recent stabilization of Outback trends and very strong results at the secondary growth brands. We believe management is signaling that a full turnaround in terms of both sales and profits at the core Outback brand will take time and will perhaps be a 2007 event.

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach. The purpose of this mission is to demonstrate and validate the core technology, such as the inflation process, as well as the durability and longevity of the vehicle when actually exposed to the on-orbit environment for a period of years.

We are very pleased by our results in the second-quarter. Despite the lack of hot toys that drove sales in the year-ago period, we reported strong revenue, thereby indicating the strength of our underlying core business,

We are very pleased to be able to lock up Nick Johnson, who we view as one of the core players who will take the Nationals to the next level. Nick is a complete player both offensively and defensively, and we appreciate his positive influence in the clubhouse. He is the type of player and person that the Washington Nationals are all about.

We are very pleased with our results for the fourth quarter as we achieved excellent performance across our businesses. We generated significant revenue growth in our core search and advertising business, driven by continued strength in traffic and monetization. We will continue to invest significantly as we develop innovative new products and as we extend our core technologies to new user access points and to different channels.

We are among a few that has a required international core course.

We did see a big recovery in (producer) prices, but that was primarily in energy. Core prices increased only modestly and that's good news for the Fed.

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.

Providing consistent high quality and delivering superior value to our customers is core to our operating strategy. We are very proud of having been selected for this award. Our sales, service and production teams work closely with our customers to continually improve our product and service performance. The outstanding work produced in our Warsaw, Indiana facility is characteristic of the quality that we achieve in each of our facilities.

People ask who our best prospects are. They're here. They're right here. Now we have a core group we feel are ready to move into the big leagues next season that were already here.

People drew some comfort in the smaller-than-expected core index, but I think the core is a bit deceptive.

People forget sometimes that this money belongs to the hard-working people of this state. The governor has been very consistent that after all the trust and reserve funds have been repaid and money remains beyond what is needed for core services, the rest ought to go back to the people of this state.

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

I wanted everyone focused on the core mission.

Offensively, we should be strong from top to bottom. We have the same core infield from last season.

Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal and written symbols employees are motivated or deflated, informed or confused, productive or apathetic. A leader's ability to carve off the verbal fatand get to the meat of an issue, idea or plan will find success at every turn.

Fans have expressed concern that the players we have will go away in a short time. We're saying to the fans that there really is a core of players.

fairly intense and focused ... on the issues involved in permanent status, on the core issues.

faithful to its core mission of being the most authoritative and credible source of information in the world, emphasizing hard journalistic reporting more than opinion shows.

Exxon Mobil should be a core holding for long-term investors seeking superior risk-adjusted return.

Experience your deepest core hurt. If it is trouble with family or a loved one, always go to feeling unlovable.

Extremely mild weather will continue this entire week, stretching the run of mild weeks assuredly to eight. Though cooler, the following week may yet be mild enough to leave a ninth week in the run of mild weeks that have spanned the core of this heating season.

Financial markets want the Fed to signal possible easing ahead due to the growth slowdown and stock market declines, ... However, the Fed will be reluctant to do that while CPI core is still accelerating.

With the acquisition of Four11's core technologies and resources, we are able to expand our communications offerings and provide a broader range of value-added services for current and new Internet users.

With the consent decree moving from the negotiation stage to the implementation, it is time for new leadership, ... For the sake of Angelenos, we must focus our efforts on the core management issues of community policing, recruitment, morale and consent decree implementation.

With the core group of leaders we have on this team, it has an uplifting effect on all of the rest of the roster. The environment, which they and Bobby and the coaches create, also has an uplifting impact. People rise with the tide of professional expectations. It's happened here for 15 straight years.

Without it, the community will not have a position on the core planning team.

Finance is the core of a modern economy, ... We must be able to forestall any crisis in the financial sector.

Financial markets are feeling more confident that the Fed will not raise rates any time soon. Add to that the fact that recent economic data shows core inflation is less than the market expects, and we see mortgage rates drop once again.

Two great wing players. That's the nucleus and core of their team.

Unemployment at 6 percent means the Fed has just lost six full years of progress towards lower unemployment in just six quarters. With its preferred measure of core inflation at the lowest level since the 1960s, the Fed probably requires a run of monthly payroll gains of 150,000 to 200,000 before it will feel any real need to tighten.

Both sides continue to work on core issues.

But once Miles would start to play on top of these things we were doing, all of a sudden, it was as though he would go to the core of it.

But the market is not cheap, ... So if you're playing, what should you be playing? GE, I think, is a core holding in anybody's portfolio.

Both the bond and stock markets will watch this report carefully, looking for any additional signs of rising prices in the production process. The trend for the overall report has been on the rise, while the core appears as though it may have reached a top.

We are embarking on a new era for AIG that will be marked by changes in the way we operate -- including greater responsiveness and transparency -- while preserving the core values that have enabled us to build an unequaled franchise,

We are excited about the synergies and strategic benefits of this acquisition, including the improved reach into Asia and the broadening of our offering with less-complex, higher-turn products in the mixed-signal and structured digital business. This acquisition expands our market and scale in both mixed-signal and structured digital products. In addition, the peripheral imaging sensor products included in the acquisition enhance our core competencies while driving profitable growth.

We are excited for the opportunity to help create value for our investment partners with this new portfolio, which is located in our core market area, while continuing to carry out our mission--to provide responsibly managed apartment communities for people who appreciate superior service and exceptional value.

We are excited to welcome Tom to our team. Tom has spent the past six years with two of the leading professional organizations involved in journalism training and research - the Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ) and the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ). NLGJA is looking forward to his leadership in helping the industry recognize that fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues is at the core of good journalism.

We have 20 first-round picks in camp and we will go through growing pains. But it will make the core team of prospects stronger and we won't change our strategy.

We have 22 expatriates in the country, and we'll go down to a core staff of less than 10.

seeing increasing evidence that open-source software, with its advantages ... will (eventually) dominate core IT infrastructure in the way it dominates Web server software now.

Sometimes I take this women's exercise class called Core Fusion at a place called Exhale. I shouldn't say it's a women's class. There's maybe two men.

The month-over-month increase at 0.4 percent was the swiftest rate since January 2005. The implication is that core inflation may be rising.

Once we saw Norm and Zach's film, we knew that one of the most important films from and about Canada had crossed our paths. Although we still have significant work to see from major Canadian directors, the unique storytelling and aesthetics of this film as our Opening Night speaks both to our core charitable mission of fostering motion picture culture and to showcase the diversity of global filmmaking worldwide.

Despite the weak GDP report, fed funds expectations for a March rate hike actually ticked higher to about 76 percent because of the rise in the core PCE price index.

Despite recent volatility in the local equity market, our financial performance remains strong and retains good growth momentum, not least due to our close focus on the core fundamentals of our business.

Despite the Asian economic crisis, we continued to find opportunities in the Far East, ... We attribute the record results for the quarter and the fiscal year to strength in all of the firm's core businesses.

Despite the combination of somewhat slower growth of productivity in recent quarters, higher energy prices, and a decline in the exchange rate for the dollar, core measures of consumer prices have registered only modest increases,

Developers have really always been Microsoft's core customer segment. The applications come from developers; they're the innovation engine for the industry. I can't overstate the importance of developers.

Despite the inherent volatility of some of its core lines of business, Macquarie's overall earnings growth has been consistent and strong.

Despite their concern about retaining core deposits, few bankers plan to change their tactics for funding growth.

Despite the pop in core PPI inflation in July, there appears to be little pressure lurking on the horizon in the near term. The pipeline measures remain subdued and vehicle pricing appears to have distorted the figures.

Once the next nominee is announced Lambda Legal will take the same approach we did with John Roberts. We will carefully review any material relevant to our community's core issues of concern and work to insure that during the Senate hearing the nominee is asked about, and addresses those issues.

Notwithstanding the fact that the . . . CPI may look scary because of higher oil prices over the next few months, the key will be what the core numbers do, ... And I'm still expecting that they'll be benign.

So the ultimate goal is to incorporate the new imagery coming from these crazed artists into the cohesive, core world of Third Edition.

Some people were concerned after the revisions yesterday and were maybe looking for bigger increases in the core (today) and there's a little bit of rallying, but it's very, very minor.

November will be better, but the past year's flat trend in the core deficit seems to be breaking.

Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.

Now Congress has always exercised the power of the purse with respect to activities of that sort and regulated the funding for that type of activity. And that's, of course, always been the core of Congress' authority.

Deals like this allow both sides to focus on their core strengths, while having a more diversified presence through each other's products and offerings. I fully expect more activity in deals like this as we roll through the business cycle.

Demand continued to accelerate during the second quarter, driven by the widespread adoption of our ... core technology,