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Simply put, the breadth and depth of the enterprise is greater than the name Yellow Roadway conveys. We now operate in over 70 countries around the world and our services have expanded to encompass logistics as well as global, national and regional transportation. Our new name, YRC Worldwide, better reflects the reality of what our enterprise is today. Our aspirations for the future remain consistent with our core purpose: Making global commerce work by connecting people, places and information.

Short term is tough. We're living now with the consequences of policy decisions that were made over the past several years ? in some cases, over the past several decades. The core of the problem is skyrocketing demand in the United States and other countries and instability among key suppliers.

Signing on a respected, Oscar winning actor like Lou is a clear indicator of the new direction we seek to take with Christian film. And collaborating with the creative team at Sony has provided a different level of expertise in everything from casting, the script, the visual effects and the overall 'feature film feel' this project will have. Yet, the core Gospel message remains squarely in place.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Senators that are looking to run are walking a fine line between supporting the troops and supporting their core constituents in the base of their own party.

Second only to a viable approach to acting, the most important thing an actor can find is a creative family. To have a solid core group of people that you take that journey with together is invaluable.

Oliver Queen/Green Arrow is a character whose core is about legacy and responsibility. And that all comes from his father and the responsibilities of living up to his legacy.

She's one of our core artists and when we got her new CD, deciding to play it was sort of a no-brainer. She's completely traditional and considering how long it's been since her last CD, the true country fans are going to flock to it.

She's right on target with her core principles. Taxpayers should have some, but not too many, choices. The pension arena is a good example. There are too many choices of plans. The same is true of education. Here there are two different credits, as well as various deductions for the same purpose.

The price of oil and the weaker euro is absolutely having an impact, ... This is a market searching for a reason to go higher but this is a core root economic problem that could exist and the market is quickly coming to the belief that there is no overnight fix.

The price of oil and the weaker euro is absolutely having an impact. This is a market searching for a reason to go higher but this is a core root economic problem that could exist and the market is quickly coming to the belief that there is no overnight fix.

The primary objective is to take care of your core group. We don't change how we've operated for the last couple of years. We certainly like where a lot of our own players are at, and it's an exciting time for this group.

To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like 'Once Upon a Time' enhances that because the show puts a spin on characters and makes them very different and puts core values that are very different that aren't in the original fairy tales a lot of people relate to.

I would say start with some of the core holdings in technology. I think the technology stocks that will do well are the ones that haven't disappointed with earnings.

I would say that core PCE is going to be a big focus at the beginning of the week, ... The PCE is important because that is what the Fed is focused on.

I wouldn't be surprised to see core PCE inflation actually fall a bit over the next two years

Hasbro recognizes that our brands can entertain a very diverse audience in so many ways. Our alliance with G4 gives Hasbro the opportunity to maximize the strength of our core brands like G.I. JOE and TRANSFORMERS in a new and innovative way.

Greenspan's focus on inflation definitely pressured the market. It was definitely a speech on higher prices and about core inflation turning the corner.

There are some areas that need to be improved, but there is certainly a core of talent that is equal to or better than some other places in the NFL. There are so many ways to turn a team around. When you have a good core of players, you have to just add a few elements to have just as much as some of the other teams.

There are still opportunities to grow in desktop and mobile computing, ... To say we are going straight into the television market is a bit of an exaggeration. Computing is the core of our business.

I create tension on the elastic band by moving away from the person who's holding it, and I maintain that tension while jumping up to head the ball. It works my legs and core while also working on balance. You feel it helping on the field when you're going up for a header or when an opponent is pulling or pushing to gain position.

I could see the core sticking together and being very successful. I could see something else happening. This is the NBA.

Given that, and given the challenges there are in our core business over the half year, the performance and the result are very encouraging.

Given that it's the deepest well ever drilled, you might describe it as a new frontier, except the frontier isn't farther out geographically; it's farther down toward the core of the earth.

Given the absence of core inflation, it seems to me as good a time as any to pause and see what's happening for a few months rather than overshoot and risk a recession.

Given the fact that core was as expected and remained unchanged on a year on year basis, I don't think it will really change the Bank of Canada's decisions much.

Given Bob's investment style, which is long-term, focused on core holdings, it's really not best for the shareholders in the fund to have a lot of new money washing in and washing out, ... We're trying to get a more stable cash flow.

Growth in core earnings will be benign as revenue growth moderates.

Growth in our core business is solid, and our growth engines, related to wireless, data and Internet initiatives are truly accelerating in the most competitive spaces.

Growth is strong. Inflation is making them a little nervous, even though they reiterate that core inflation and long-term inflation expectations are contained.

Funds were donated by staff throughout the district, with the core amount coming from the maintenance department.

Gillette remains confident that the continued strength of its core businesses, benefits from its reorganization and its optimization of trade inventories, coupled with an improvement in international economies, bode well for a return to its historic high growth rates in the near future,

For several years after '95, we had continuity with a core group of players. This day and age, keeping a team together is hard to do, and it keeps getting worse and worse.

From a manager's standpoint, losses are never easy to swallow. You take them to heart. You take them real hard, ... But am I keeping my eye on the big picture? Of course I am. And do I know that we have a core group that has the potential to be good from the start of next season to the end of next season? Of course I do. And that's exciting." ()

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

I feel real positive about things. We've got a core of players that we feel good about, and (we said) come Wednesday, we would sign some other very good players.

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.

I am certainly in the camp that this rumor makes little sense. If eBay were to make this sort of move it would basically be admitting that 'our core market is decelerating.

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

I don't think our key guys were strong tonight. Our key guys carry the team and they're going to have to be stronger for us to be successful. Our whole core group has to step up and do a better job.

For three consecutive years we've been the exclusive tire company of the Chicago Auto show, and our partnership with the show has given our brands and our products great visibility with consumers. This year we're proud to present an exhibit that both reflects our company's three important core values--trust, innovation and safety--and introduces visitors to our diverse businesses in the Americas as well as our global capabilities.

For us, freedom of expression is at the core of our democracy, and it is something that we have shed blood for and treasure." ()

For us, new build is not our thing. It will never be a core feature of what we do.

Fortune Interactive was conceived with two core goals in mind; increase our clients' revenue while maintaining the highest levels of communication. The search marketing industry is suffering from growing-pains with relatively few companies able to maintain consistently high-levels of client satisfaction,

For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed at 2.3 percent or less, and the only explanation for that is globalization means inflation is contained.

I expect the company to follow through on expansion because the management team is focused on its core business.

If it continues to improve then we have a chance to make a statement. Four years ago we had six kids out for track, now, our core group of athletes have been with us for three years and things are looking up.

If it goes just 20 or 30 miles inland, the core could be destroyed. A lot will depend on the exact track.

I believe there is a product transition issue going on. I think that it has lost the mindshare of its channel partners and some customers because, from a product improvement perspective, it hasn't introduced new features for its core product in about a year.

I always want to keep returning, in my writing and in my thinking, to the fundamental core fact of our society's exploitative structure. It doesn't matter how wonderful the stock market is doing, or whether we entered a new realm with the rising tide of capital lifting all boats. For the vast majority of all people, it's not that wonderful.

But this doesn't seem to do anything to address the core Windows problem: Windows is too big and too complex.

But we had a number of other athletes who specialized. Our boys' cross country team qualified for state, boys' golf did a good job and won state. So it's a mixture of the core group of girls and other athletes.

But we're still growing at a pace that feels comfortable to us, and maintains the core values and concepts.

Causes brings over 140 million people together to form the world's largest giving community. The belief that everyone has something to give is at the core of what we do; people just need a little inspiration, and to know that whoever they are, there is something meaningful they can do.

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

But certainly the market should be focused on the core number, since that's what the Fed looks at. We're looking for an 0.2 percent increase, which wouldn't cause a big reaction in the market.

Building a great wireless network is what we do. It has not been a core competency for municipalities.

Building up an organisation is like starting a social movement. At the center of everything is the core team. I have the honor of working with some phenomenal people at Purpose who are at the top of their fields. That energy and common purpose among the team is what inspires me and where the magic happens.

I feel very good about the core of this team. We have some very good athletes here. We've got some very good character on this team. That's a good place to start, and we'll augment it over the next six months in every way that we can.

But the core businesses are still suffering. It's a mixed bag.

But there is nothing disrespectful about an open and fair-minded review of a nominee's approach to the Constitution and his commitment to core American values like equality, privacy and fairness,

Chris is new here and he has some great ideas. We're hoping to build a core strength program that will help our kids to accomplish their goals.

To come in here with this type of atmosphere, it's definitely a very good feeling to come out of here with a win. It's just going to help us because our whole core is intact for next year.

To exchange principles for popularity might be a temptation. It's at the core of populism. We must offer something else.

to get a better feel for her intellectual capacity and judicial philosophy, core competence issues.

Today is a major step in cleaning up the past. This is a plan that will enable us to leverage our core brands and increase cash flow. I still believe the basic foundation of this enterprise -- our core brands -- is sound and has the opportunity to be as successful as ever.

Having an advising core for 7,000 students in one shop just boggles the mind, ... If they did that, they would be saying, 'Oh, these guys are engineering wannabees.'

Here is a case where on this core issue where he is instead polarizing again and widening,

What we've tried to do is minimize the damage (from) a system which at its core is designed to penalize good drafting teams. I think we've minimized the damage as much as we can.

What you'll see on the shipping box, we've added a feature...that explains 'hey this one has an Intel Core Duo chip' so customers know what they are buying. It isn't any part of an Intel Inside program or anything like that. It is just part of the feature section on our box.

Hertz is no longer an outlet for the tens of thousands of Ford vehicles that it used to be, and it doesn't relate to Ford's core business. I don't think the absence of Hertz will hurt Ford overall.

We surveyed 125 retailers late last week, and 21 percent had at least one Xbox 360 Core ($299 version) console in stock. Most also reported receiving shipments last week and are now seeing a relatively steady flow after stock-outs abounded for most of December and January.

With more than 5,000 people killed and 100,000 injured in truck-related crashes each year, we strongly urge that you refocus the agency on its core mission of 'safety as the highest priority.

With Mozilla, its core essence has been this notion about doing things for free. So in that case, it is a little different because it somewhat changes the DNA the organization was built upon, and it comes back to the recognition that being paid for services is not necessarily a bad thing.

We've got to give consumers variety and new tastes. They're not coming just for our tried-and-true core products.

We're pleased to have reached an agreement with Brenden for the next two seasons. He's a valuable part of this club's future and we expect he will continue to anchor our young core of players. We're very excited to have him in the fold.

We're now focusing on our core audience, although friends of Latin music will find it wherever they are,

We're obviously excited to get that done. She's been a huge part of what we've done. That's a major step for us to get our pieces put together to keep the core of the team.

I have a hard time talking about myself. It was much more than just an individual, ... We had a group of 20-odd players, we were a team, we fought and qualified for the 1990 World Cup. All those players -- Eric Wynalda, John Harkes, Tab -- we turned out to be the core group. We sacrificed a lot to make sure that soccer took off. We played in front of maybe 5,000 fans on a good night. But I enjoyed every minute. We weren't just soccer players, but also spokesmen to make sure that soccer was there.

HP selectively bid on areas where we know we can do a great job and where focus was on core areas of importance to HP and GM.

Huge swings in energy and motor vehicle prices have masked a sharp retreat in core producer inflation over the past 6 months.

We made it very clear throughout the IPO process that we would stick to the knitting and concentrate on our core product, i.e. poker, in our core market, the United States and that is something that absolutely we are doing,

We made significant strides in turning around the business during 2005. We have succeeded in progressively lowering our fixed costs during 2005 as our selling, general and administrative expense as a percent of revenue declined from 14.5% in the first quarter to 12.1% in the fourth quarter. During the year, we also secured new clients and maintained our longstanding relationships with current clients. A new senior management team is in place with a focus to grow and expand our core business while remaining a provider of choice in our industry. We are encouraged with the progress we have made thus far and we will continue to seek opportunities to improve our results and diversify our revenue base in 2006.

Hybrid Synergy Drive is a core technology that will play a key role in virtually all Toyota models in the years ahead.

I absolutely adore writing books with paranormal elements - and I love creating the often-complex worlds and/or plots that go along with those stories - but at the heart of all of that ,you have the characters, and when you get down to the core of it, it's spending the time with the characters that is what I truly love.

He considered himself an anarchist, and his core beliefs were developing and supporting people's right to freedom.

We lost three seniors from last year. Two seniors this year decided not to play and we lost a transfer. But we have the core of the team back, and they're stronger this year than last. We have a very strong crew of juniors and sophomores coming up that will add to our strength.

We look forward to a long-term partnership with W. P. Carey and appreciate the flexibility this transaction has given us to reinvest our capital in our core business.

If the core CPI is above market consensus forecast of a rise of 0.4 pct year-on-year, this would fuel speculation that the Bank of Japan will end its ultra-easy monetary policy at its meeting next week, which could spark a spate of yen-buying.

If the core CPI is above market consensus forecast of a rise of 0.4 percent year-on-year, this would fuel speculation that the Bank of Japan will end its ultra-easy monetary policy at its meeting next week, which could spark a spate of yen-buying.

If the core rate doesn't get out of hand and growth comes in moderate, at some point fairly soon the Fed could decide ... to stop raising rates.

If the core rate shows lower inflation than expected, it will give a hint that the Federal Reserve is close to the end of its rate hikes, and this would give equity markets a boost overall,

If the CPI core rate shows not much of a rise then the market will be able to just focus on good earnings. It will show that the Fed is staying ahead of the inflation curve, which is a positive for the market.

He improved as much in one season as any player we can remember and we expect that trend to continue. We believe Damien will be a part of our young, talented core for years to come.

He was amazing in his ability to get to the core of the issue and bring some common sense to bear.

If it's a core piece of property, we prefer outright acquisition because we can manage it and it has public access.

He works hard every day, he studies and prepares himself as well as any of our starters. There is no question he has a strong desire to be a part of what's going on. But he is a team player and he places that above self. And that, to me, is very special. That's what really makes the core of a good football team when you have guys who put team before self.

He's got 65 points on his ACT; he needs 68. He's going to make it in his core (GPA). I absolutely expect him to qualify.

He's going to jump right in and play special teams. He's an experienced player. He's going to jump right in and be a core contributor to this team.

History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents without a very strong base is very risky. It has not worked for us in New York. You have to develop a core group, then you can go out and add.