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This is not a rally being driven by fundamentals. In essence, it's being driven by the weight of money that's coming into the market. I think that flow will not cease or reverse. It'll probably increase.

This is not a retail driven market. It's the hedge funds, the mutual funds and the institutional investors driving the action ... they come in all buying or all selling and that's why you're seeing so much volatility,

This is the first crack in the home building area, ... Home building has really driven a large portion of this economic advance, and any drop in this area of the market would have very powerful ramifications for GDP growth.

In Malta, many a policy or measure tends to be driven by expedience rather than conscience.In order to succeed we need to think forward all the time and not get stuck in the past.

Income growth for the quarter was driven by strong overall unit volume gains,

I learned my lesson on several 'swing for the fences' deals, ... I'm not afraid to step up to the plate and take a big risk, but I don't want the whole thing to be driven by hype. People who hit a lot of home runs also strike out a lot.

I've driven by it a lot. I'm looking forward to being inside the stadium.

I've driven the Focus RS WRC on snow in Sweden and twice on asphalt in France and I'm hugely impressed. I quickly developed a good feeling with the car and have settled into a good working relationship with the team. I'm not making any predictions about Monte Carlo. The important thing on the first round is for me to gain experience of the car in competitive surroundings. But my initial feeling is that the Focus RS WRC can win rallies in 2006.

I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.

In contrast to the year-end rally here driven by real estate and other domestic plays, taking a lead now are stocks which have a high correlation with the Nasdaq market.

Increased sales of electricity driven by colder weather and customer growth, off-system sales and higher retail electric rates contributed to the improved electric margin. The increase in the consolidated natural gas margin for the quarter was primarily attributable to customer growth and colder weather.

Increasingly, consumer confidence seems to be driven by the price of gasoline.

Increasingly, consumer confidence seems to be driven by the price of gasoline. The rise in confidence last month appears to have been a lagged reaction to lower gas prices in February. But we have more than made up for those drops in the last two months, and gas prices are headed upward as the summer traveling season approaches.

In FY05, statewide average total and operating margins reached their highest levels since FY94, when PHC4 began publicly reporting these measures for all hospitals. The growth in FY05 financial margins was driven by a 90 percent increase in operating income.

Inflation is up, driven by energy prices. Underlying core rates remain low, which is encouraging.

I'm very proud of the way he handled it. It's tough to put a number on a kid's heart and Brad had the biggest heart of any kid I've seen. He's driven and very passionate about the game. If anything, Brad is in better shape now, his velocity is up (94-95 m.p.h.) and he's maturing as a young man.

In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?

I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember.

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

I'm worn out and my body hurts. I've never experienced in my life trying not to fall asleep in a race car. That was interesting. It was fantastic, though. Thanks to Mike Shank and the whole team at Mike Shank Racing, especially Mark Patterson for allowing myself and Justin this opportunity to get in such a great car and to Oswaldo for teaching us so much right away so we could get right after it. It was almost like I had almost driven the car before when I jumped in it; he just taught me so much.

If there's going to be a rough spot, it's that Chrysler has driven its decision-making from the lowest levels.

I have nothing to hide. I've had my ups and downs, and went through something 20 years ago. I've been ridiculed and persecuted, but I'm not bitter. I've gone through an enormous change, and now my life is driven by Christ.

I have no objection to promoting abstinence, but where that is not an option anymore, we should promote prevention strategies that work. I think that having it being driven by the grass roots up is the best way to go.

I have no one to whom I can talk upon such matters. I am all driven inwards, and thought turns sour when one lets it stagnate like that.

I'm like a little kid; I really am. Everything's a game for me. I'm just driven to win, even on the littlest, dumbest, silliest things.

Improved packaging adds important value for our customers. The Safe-T-Can design was driven by our customers' stated priorities. Graham Packaging helped us consider many options and then designed the one that best addressed our customers' needs.

I love the support from the crowd. I just felt driven when every time I came out of the water the crowd was shouting and cheering me on.

In our view, earnings improvement in the last two quarters has been driven primarily by better execution.

Instead, it was driven by the core business and a lower tax rate.

Insurers are in a bind because they've driven up the price of cars, and they're not seeing the benefit. Air bags cost about $1,000 to replace.

Instead of Theodore Roosevelt's 'talk softly and carry a big stick,' we have yelled and carried a toothpick, ... And what has happened? The people we are protecting are driven out or killed or raped, the people that are under the shelter of the U.S. are no longer in Kosovo.

If you've just driven your heart out, you've got to trust that your team mate is not then going to stick the car in a hedge.

If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.

If you are passionate and truthful, you find success. There are a more people who have lasted forever as actors earlier because films used to be character driven and now they are mostly plot driven. Much of the most delicate work being done today is on television. It often has the best acting because of their ability to be truthful.

If you fast forward your clocks to Dec. 31 of this year, you're going to have yet another year in which the Nasdaq, driven by technology stocks, is going to outperform the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average.

No industry should be threatened by 'junk' lawsuits based not on established legal principles but driven by extreme political agendas. This legislation restores and reaffirms the common-sense notion that no manufacturer should be held liable for the criminal misuse of its products. We are pleased that the House of Representatives has passed this important reform measure.

I walked away a bit angry, but at the same time, and I have to thank the Tour for this; we're more driven than ever before. One of the things Lance passed on to me was to find motivation out of unpleasant things. I walked away thinking about how we are going to try to win the Tour next year.

Snap Servers have always been a reputable, safe choice for customers, and the new Snap Server 500 series coupled with Snap's portfolio of data protection and management software, expands the choice customers have when deploying Network Attached Storage systems. With the Snap Server 500 family, customers now have several new options for primary and secondary storage at reasonable price points. These new Snap Servers enable customers to take advantage of solutions that utilize SAS or SATA technology to create a tiered storage environment that is driven by the value of the information and its accessibility and availability requirements. These servers are truly giving companies the total package of performance, data management and protection for all types of business data.

Service expresses the divinity hidden in man. It broadens one's heart, it destroys narrow-mindedness, and it gives delight. The evil qualities and tendencies in us can be driven away through service.

I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

I hope this year will be as good as last year. The chamber is driven by its membership, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

I'm excited about the opportunity to be a small part of this team. I think it's great that these guys have gotten into our sport. I think it's going to be good for the sport. They've entered in a big way with Texas Instruments on board. Being from Texas, I'm really honored to be part of a team with Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman. I'm looking forward to the opportunity. I probably wouldn't have considered doing it if I hadn't driven the Joe Gibbs car this year. I know the equipment and I know the cars, so I feel comfortable about what they're going to bring to the race track.

I'm really excited about getting my 50th start. I read that the other day, and I can't believe that I will have driven 50 Nextel Cup races; I didn't ever think I'd get to drive one. It's just awesome and it means the world to me. I am really glad to be a part of the sport at this level. Hopefully, there is another zero after that start number before I quit.

I'm going to be driven by the evidence, ... I wouldn't want to speculate how far up, what I haven't heard anybody suggest, that this was some sort of rouge operation by one individual operating outside the control or direction of the Libyan external security organization.

As we expected, the strong rebound in prices in October was temporary, driven by buyers postponing purchases until after the August base rate cut and the overall picture remains one of stability rather than acceleration,

Strong global demand for semiconductors is driving our customers to increase and accelerate their year 2000 capital spending for expanded capacity and more advanced technologies, ... We expect increasing demand for semiconductors to continue throughout 2000, driven by the growth of applications in telecommunications Internet-related and consumer products.

Strong market growth continued to be driven by lower prices and mobility in the third quarter. These factors sped up new PC adoption and replacement activities. Overall market growth exceeded expectations, with home demand for mobile being particularly strong.

Strong copper and molybdenum production combined with far higher than expected copper and molybdenum prices have driven earnings far beyond many expectations.

The bigger distributors have been driven to the larger customers and therefore have been disproportionately affected if a customer moves overseas.

The agencies' refusal to list Atlantic salmon is a case study in politically driven and illegal decision-making under the Endangered Species Act.

The additional demand for housing has driven up real estate, which makes it difficult for young people to buy homes. It drives away the workers we would attempt to attract.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

The Australian dollar is being hurt by the rise in global bond yields, driven by expectations all three major central banks will be raising interest rates this year. This is hurting commodities.

The bond market, which has been more active over the last couple of months, has driven the movement in rates for the longer-term CD's (12 month and longer),

The biggest surprise to us this year was the late-season surge in the week before Christmas. This occurred at a time when we usually see a pronounced drop-off in purchases. Instead, we saw a 57 percent growth surge driven by people buying online and picking up in stores as well as the commitment by online merchants to deliver in time.

The big part of the move today is driven by the view that the Fed will likely go more than what the market had thought.

The big picture is still that 10-year yields are up 100 basis points (1 percentage point) in basically a month, so to see a 5- or 10-basis-point pullback is not a big deal. It's just a wiggle on the charts, ... You will get wiggles here and there, and whether it's driven by surprises in economic data, or in geopolitics, oil prices or stocks is anyone's guess.

not being driven nuts by a significant other always helps ones sanity and attitude. Trust me, of this I know what I speak.

This is in line with our expectation that demand for new housing would 'cool off' towards the end of 2005 and in early 2006 as higher short-term interest rates, driven by the Fed, would ultimately translate into higher long-term borrowing rates.

This is just a redistribution of costs. The economic problems of this state are not driven by picking up dead deer.

Crazy. I told Jeremy, 'I think you're out of your mind.' But that's Jeremy. He's just a driven guy, a tremendous athlete. He's a different kind of cat.

create runs when we need to. We will look to expose weaknesses of other clubs. There are a lot of clubs that don't have the ability to hold runners on. I'm not going to sit back and wait for runs to be driven in. If we can create runs, we're going to do it.

Despite challenging market conditions, we achieved strong profit growth in the fourth quarter driven by healthy, solid results in our key business units and overseas subsidiaries.

Despite expected revenue declines, our results in July and August exceeded expectations, evidence of our much improved operations, ... However, the dramatic economic downturn since the events of Sept. 11 resulted in an unprecedented loss in September, driven by disproportionate revenue decreases during the last two weeks of the month.

The no voters were likely driven by an allegiance to their cause and a refusal to sacrifice their principles for a few dollars. The results indicate there are more of the latter, so we should not expect an end to the strike anytime soon.

The NRC is an expert, independent, nonpartisan body whose standards are based on solid research, consistent with the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences, ... I believe the industry has a very legitimate long-term concern over having to abide by EPA standards that are politically driven and not scientifically based.

Consumer driven (health care) will only reach its full potential when people have access to this kind of information.

Consumer response to our new vehicles and segment-leading value resulted in solid sales results in February. Our retail sales improvement in February was driven by our industry-leading value, not by fleet sales or high incentives. This resulted in better retail sales performance by six of our divisions.

Aristotle made the statement that humans are social animals. We like to see each other, know what each other is doing and share with each other. That yearning for connection has driven the rise of the Internet.

excellent performance in our corporate and capital markets driven businesses.

At the end of the day you have to be driven by principle and you've got to be driven by passion and your belief in what this country can be.

The Johnson Controls growth strategy is driven by our customers' needs. These integration solutions will help healthcare organizations improve clinical outcomes, financial performance, and patient and staff satisfaction.

The continued weakness in DRAM (dynamic random access memory) prices, driven by excess capacity, combined with recent financing difficulties in Asia, are causing many of our DRAM customers to reevaluate their capital spending plans,

The fares will not be driven strictly by time of day, or day of week, although we will loosely follow that. They will be driven by the number of advance reservations and are keyed to times of day, to some extent.

The fastest spread of HIV is in eastern Europe, in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is mostly driven by a heroin epidemic... Russia alone has already well over one people living with HIV.

The minibus had just driven out of the garage when something exploded.

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

The fear of not doing well in reading and mathematics is driving out some of the other needs we have. We have driven fear into a system that's dealing with children. People are so concerned about raising achievement, they've almost inadvertently forgotten about the entire development of the child.

The Fed has been explicit that any more moves will be driven by data. I would be surprised if the data wasn't healthy, and the dollar could firm on the back of stronger numbers.

That might be somebody's only chance to see me pitch. They might have driven four hours to get there. I'm going to be out there if I can help it.

That's a hard lesson for those whose false pride and erroneous concepts have driven them not to respond, even late, to our offer,

That's driven by the market. We want to send a message to the marketplace ... that there is enough excess land there to construct another 600,000 square feet.

That's driven principally by the gyros. And right now, we're saying we think we're good until the middle of 2008, ... Hubble will still be worth servicing as long as the batteries hold out.

It's been easy. She's a driven player. If a coach had a lot of players like her, it would make his job a lot easier. From what I understand she's been a driven player since she was young.

It's been foreigners looking for yield that has driven the U.S. curve to flatten. The market will interpret this inversion as more circumspect than previous ones.

It's important to connect reality to concept. An improvement in the gross domestic product has caused people to feel more confident in their jobs, but profits are being driven by efficiencies in this country rather than increase in demand,

It's being driven by what we call ATP -- acute time poverty. People are busy, they don't always have time to sit down and watch a show when it's scheduled.

It's definitely the case that pension funds have been reducing their allocation to equities and that's been driven mostly by legislative pressures to reduce their deficits and to match more closely their assets with projected liabilities.

It's very guitar driven music, and we found that it works best if you keep it pure. Vocals lead to controversy over what language to use-English or Spanish. Either way, you alienate part of your audience. The instrumental music is universal.

It's driven by economics now. This is a trend, not a fad.

It's driven by the fact that they can't talk about their current products, because everybody knows their current products aren't very good.

It's driven by the government doing a regulatory taking on a piece of property.

It tends to be elderly, snowbird driven and it doesn't have a lot of rooftops.

I had driven out there, and my feeling was that something went wrong. It needs to be fixed.

In terms of the full year, the cut is not as bad as it looks at first sight as it is being driven by lower interest income.

Cisco's story was that inventory concerns and demand driven problems are not fixable as early as Wall Street expected, ... People are understanding the impact of what Cisco said. Wall Street wants to believe things are rosy in that sector and they're just not.

Clearly, 2,000 people can't all be stupid, which is what petition organizers keep saying. This process was flawed from the beginning, driven more by extreme politics than by the grassroots. We know we can't stop the petition from advancing to the Legislature, but this is wrong, plain and simple.

In the last two months, the ups and down in the consumer spending numbers have been mostly driven by swings in the textile and leather sector.

I have to think that the sale is being driven by Pilgrim Baxter -- they want to grow more aggressively than perhaps UAM is willing to commit, ... It seems Pilgrim Baxter is a square peg at UAM.