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Our second quarter results underscore the momentum we are seeing across all of our lines of business and the leverage that is inherent in our business model as we continue to drive more and more services through our infrastructure.

Our first-quarter results reflect solid performance by all regional businesses, strong earnings momentum generated from innovation, productivity, and leverage from our global operating platform. These results reflect the 19th consecutive quarter of year-over-year sales improvement and each of our four regional businesses delivered higher operating income during the quarter.

Our goal for the second half of the year remains double-digit earnings growth,. However, given the current economic environment this will be difficult to achieve, ... We expect earnings growth in the second half will show improvement over the first half of this year as we leverage our sales and market share gains, but the growth may not meet our original goals.

I think people need to watch the commodity markets to know what's going on. That's where all the money is, where all the leverage is, it's the emerging market play.

It gives eBay a new resource to leverage in search marketing efforts.

It gives them more leverage. If your cost of goods is lower, you have more leverage to negotiate prices that might be able to beat out competing technologies.

I think we've improved. We got to get stronger as a football team. Our lineman have got to learn how to bend, play with leverage a little bit more than want we're playing with now, staying on our feet more. We got to get better at wide receiver. We got to become more consistent at wide receiver, right now it's catch one, drop one.

It is possible that other financial buyers show interest, though we think given the leverage likely required by an acquisition and the lack of a clear exit strategy, it would be difficult to justify the purchase.

I think it gives him huge leverage because lawmakers want to have the programs they want funded actually get funded. If there is any possibility for a good faith negotiation, people will want to take it up, but I'm just not sure that there is.

Tierney is a proven leader who brings experience, vision and energy that will help our growing team of seasoned sales consultants provide innovative solutions and impeccable execution for our 3,000 public relations and corporate communications clients. I know Tierney will ignite the team's efforts to help our clients leverage evolving broadcast, broadband and narrative marketing solutions to more effectively reach multiple target audiences.

Today's top-rated games leverage the available infrastructure to deliver a rich experience and also leverage the inherent social connectivity that mobile gaming offers consumers. Digital Chocolate is highly supportive of this group's effort to advance the platform for mobile gaming and to enable a better user experience.

We have the most leverage of any work group at the Boeing Company on the bottom line. We design the process. We design the product. We determine the materials.

We have these phones so we can talk to other people. The most successful games are going to be the ones that leverage that.

Unfortunately today, software and failure are too frequently linked, and we as an industry need to start tackling the software problem with the urgency it deserves. The root cause of this problem is often the complex and inefficient way that software is delivered. To reduce the complexity and increase the predictability of software delivery, we are offering customers a series of packaged, maturity-based solutions that leverage our global process expertise, our comprehensive library of process assets and templates, and our award-winning ALM technology.

Unify NXJ is a flexible and well-designed product that allows us to leverage our existing IT skills. Using the NXJ report engine, we created reports that helped us detect $500,000 in un-realized revenue from our customers. We already got a big bang for our bucks with this discovery.

Title 42 U.S. Code, Section 1988 was intended to help the poor obtain legal counsel in claims of real, tangible violations of civil rights. To leverage defendants into submission and enrich themselves at the same time, organizations like the ACLU have exploited it.

We anticipate narrower losses for 2001 as the effects of our consolidation program are realized and we gain leverage in our distribution network and infrastructure expenses.

We don't have to be in the lead, or get the publicity for everything we do. What's important is that we pull out all the stops to leverage every way we can make a difference when people are in great need.

The apparent lack of operating leverage remains the single biggest issue for Amazon.

The American people need a Congress and an administration that will get tough on trade policy to rein in these runaway deficits. When you look at trade deficits in the context of growing foreign ownership of our national debt, you see that we're increasingly beholden to the very countries whose markets we'd like to open to American goods. Unless we reverse this dangerous trend, we'll soon find ourselves without negotiating leverage to promote our trade agenda.

With the divestiture program behind us, we are working to capitalize on growth opportunities. In doing so, we will leverage our core materials integrity management products and technologies to solve the industry's most challenging contamination control issues and help improve our customers' yields.

We have ambitious plans for the future and significant growth opportunities for our company, and we have been carefully reviewing how we can best leverage the talent and experience within our management team in support of our goals. This is a strong management structure and a strong management team to lead our company given the needs of our business and the accelerated pace at which we must make strategic decisions and respond to the needs of our customers. I am proud of the caliber of our next-generation of leaders and their dedication to our future.

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Microsoft has built its business on working with third party software vendors and wants to leverage that expertise to the supercomputing arena.

You kind of have to take advantage and use leverage on guys that big because you can't just sit there and fight with them. You have to stay lower than them. That's the only way that's going to work.

You can have a lot more leverage in this country in another way, and that is by determining the margin of victory between Democrats and Republicans. It's not a spoiler role, it's a leverage role.

We have over 100 civil actions already filed. There's concern that this gives them some leverage going forward.

Under the collaborative framework of Advantage Oregon, we will leverage the enormous freight buying power of Oregon agricultural shippers and use the latest in transportation management software to drive cost efficiencies and service improvements for the benefit of our out-of-state customers.

We never felt real comfortable that writing a big check to the American Red Cross would make a big difference. So we decided not only to leverage our financial donations but also leverage the resources we have in the Washington area and in Montgomery County. That would have a much bigger impact than leaving families in shelters. . . . We're more nimble.

We have not been able to leverage our foundation at TBS,

We needed to modernize our health care I.T. infrastructure. We want to have more flexibility when it comes to member interactions and to leverage technology to really change the model and become a trusted adviser.

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you're not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage.

Middleware is important because the capabilities of the applications are based upon the middleware functions. Oracle exploits some of its database technology and will leverage middleware and database capabilities into the applications.

Microsoft would no longer have guaranteed placement on users' desktops. That would mean its ability to leverage the desktop in terms of selling other services would be severely reduced, or it would have to negotiate directly to get that leverage.

We were looking for leverage and speed. Football has become a game of speed, and that's true even on the offensive line.

While advertising revenue will always be an important part of our revenue base, we will leverage non-core assets to deliver premium services,

We continue to believe Fairchild is an early stage restructuring story with the most gross margin leverage in the group.

We continue to leverage the competitive advantages of our global network and increasingly strong sales team to expand and diversify our revenue streams,

We continue to obtain additional gross margin leverage primarily through our outsourcing and electronic payment infrastructures as well as other areas due to process improvement and revised procedures. Also positively impacting our gross margins is the continued decrease in hardware revenues as a percentage of total revenue.

We do not have the leverage to pressure the Chinese into changing their policies. Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves, 'are the Chinese citizens better off with or without our services?

We hope that as a result of the kind of meeting we're trying to arrange, that the various permanent members of the council can bring to bear some leverage and turn this process around before it's too late.

We hope to be the most strategic in utilizing funds to either form partnerships and leverage existing ongoing activities, or by identifying gaps and placing our money there.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

We are thrilled, along with The Columns Group, to be part of such an outstanding team of award-winning agents committed to aggressively moving our business forward. There is a need in the marketplace, and we have assembled the right team to leverage this opportunity.

The creation of a BDC should result in more business for Thrifty Car Sales dealers and happier customers. Our dealers were telling us they had a need for greater traffic flow to their locations, and the business development center is designed to do just that. This is a red-hot concept in the car sales industry right now. Lots of new car dealers with multiple brands are moving to a call/business development center strategy. It takes incoming calls off the showroom floor and channels them to dedicated professionals solely focused on making appointments. We were able to leverage the assets of our worldwide car rental reservation center to deliver an extremely cost-effective, state-of-the art, full-service call center for our dealers.

What we do best is business. It makes perfect sense to leverage our skills and knowledge of the business community toward this.

We're able to leverage a lot of that experience about how to take social networking and put it on a device.

This proposal presents a unique opportunity for both companies. By coming together to leverage the strengths of both companies, we will be able to offer services to different customers on the network that fit with their own individual needs and wants.

There is no doubt that buyers have more leverage than they did a year ago.

We have made additional portfolio management changes that enhance the blend of fundamental and quantitative techniques in some portfolios and better leverage our investment professionals' sector expertise.

The ratings from Gartner reflect the results of our ongoing effort to build domain competency and deliver value to customers across key segments of the insurance industry. As Insurers leverage global sourcing for restructuring operations and technology, HCL is equipped to deliver superior value and innovation with the industry's broadest service offerings, domain depth and innovative engagement models.

Wal-Mart Stores did miss their plan as our customer continues to be impacted by higher gas prices and it is difficult to improve our expense leverage in the current environment.

Upon entering the final quarter of our fiscal year 2006, we remain encouraged by the strength of our operations, particularly as it relates to our ongoing efforts to develop a culture of cost efficiency throughout the Company. As we consider attempting to leverage our managed care expertise in and around the Southeastern United States, we remain committed to executing on a strategy of disciplined, opportunistic growth, guided by the mandate to build value for our shareholders.

The question is, are these government officials using their leverage over the university's budget and other things to extract a personal benefit to them that is inappropriate? I do think there is an ethical problem with this. But I would be surprised if this sort of practice is not widespread with sports franchises generally.

We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.

To bring it up now, as an attempt to gain leverage and a better settlement during the divorce, is just reprehensible.

We are once again honored to be acknowledged by Yankee Group as the leader in business portal services. This confirms AT&T?s ongoing commitment to and investment in providing a superb customer experience. We will continue to leverage technology, enhance the portal?s robust suite of tools and deliver the best online experience to our customers around the world.

We are placing the question of violence right in the middle of our basic research on the neurobiology of emotion, ... Our previous insights in this area give us tremendous leverage to understand the root causes of violence.

We plan to be a significant player in the online music retail arena. The online music business has proven to be viable, with analysts predicting steady growth. We are in an enviable position to capture market share due to our ability to leverage the established brands and built-in customer base of Trans World 's retail stores.

The overriding upside to the acquisition for Sun is that they now have additional 'feet on the street' who are extremely well-equipped to sell enterprise storage solutions. Yes, they have focused on tape in the enterprise, but we have no reason to expect that these additional salespeople cannot leverage their expertise on the disk systems side, taking advantage of Sun's broad disk storage systems portfolio.

We distill content for Fortune 500 executives every day. We know how to take a twenty-minute speech and edit it down to the three or four minutes that apply directly to a specific constituency. We can leverage any existing or future communication initiative, adding to the value of those efforts.

We are not going to use oil as political leverage in conducting our foreign policy.

We are always on the lookout for interesting initiatives that leverage technology to get people involved. Maybe we're not looking in the right places . . . but I haven't seen another approach exactly like it. If this works, obviously, we would be interested in helping expand it beyond Colorado.

We delivered another strong performance in the first three months of 2006 as our average daily volume exceeded two million contracts for the second consecutive quarter. The double digit growth in our core options business fueled a 40% increase in net income once again reflecting the operating leverage that is inherent in our business. We also continued to post strong cash flow which we now share with our stockholders by virtue of the implementation of the dividend policy that we announced last year.

We work to support our partners to enhance their likelihood of success. Many partners within the network are doing quite well. When we enter these alliances we look to leverage the strength of our platform.

The debt-free mentality is largely the product of emotion - how nice it would be to never make a mortgage payment again. Good debt gives you some leverage that helps you increase your net worth.

We want to avoid a property owner using sewer availability as leverage to get more units with the county.

The explosive uptake in broadband connectivity has increased consumer demand for video content, compelling search engines to offer free and easy access to online video, ... Our online video technology has positioned ROO to leverage this dynamic growth in online video to provide consumers with the video content they want to watch when they want to watch it.

The fact that the meaningful part of the season is now shorter and we've got a pretty good date, the leverage is certainly in our favor.

The dealer has a good amount of leverage he can use with the factory to get goodwill consideration.

The real threat is no longer letting those incredibly powerful suppliers drive a truck through the middle, ... In the old days, if HP didn't go the way Microsoft wanted, they would say, 'That's fine. Compaq will do it for us.' Many strategic suppliers could indeed leverage the two companies against each other. Now they won't be able to.

We're trying to leverage all the outside grant funding we can get.

We're trying to leverage the production and administrative functions of each group as part of our effort to strengthen the business and benefit shareholders.

We lead a number of nationally recognized efforts in clinical research. This merger provides a more cost-effective, integrated structure for managing an important body of work. Working multi-regionally will strengthen our research capabilities and better leverage our network of scientific collaborators.

While operating efficiency is important, it will take significant revenue growth over the next several years to bring optimal leverage to Amazon's scale-driven model, and revenue growth will be increasingly difficult to achieve.

While our core solutions each provide distinct advantages for different types of credit unions, they all leverage a service-oriented architecture, our unified technology direction that's focused on enhancing member service through a practical blend of powerful, established processing capabilities and new innovative technologies like XML and .NET(R).

We consider the European market to be a key element in our global strategy, ... Europe will be next after Japan to implement UMTS and will provide an opportunity for us to leverage our technology and experience.

We consider the European market to be a key element in our global strategy. Europe will be next after Japan to implement UMTS and will provide an opportunity for us to leverage our technology and experience.

We do have an advantage in that we have a very unique skill set. They could not easily come in and replace us, so it gives us more leverage than a lot of workers.

We view the additional advertising expense during the quarter as an important investment in building the Circuit City brand. Since our retail stores team held labor expense relatively flat on a dollar basis, we were able to gain significant leverage on our higher level of sales as we continued work to optimize the labor model in our stores." ()

We will give Ping An our full support in boosting insurance business, but we haven't got any detailed plans for the moment. The bank can leverage its wide network of branches for the insurance business.

We would certainly favor any disposal of Virgin Blue. They're still not getting many benefits because the oil price is high and the labor market's still restricting any real leverage of the business model.

We will develop brochures and purchase radio air time to promote the new program. We would also like to leverage that money with some support from the automotive industry.

We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.

We think this company more than most would be leveraged to an improvement in market conditions and lower rates. Market activity comes back this company has a lot of operating leverage and it should show through on the bottom line.

We shouldn't expect the world to change overnight. Enterprises want to leverage existing investments.

(To) reignite growth, we have structured our operations into three independent businesses that leverage our core strengths while providing customers with the products they want and need,

We are also seeing the opportunity to expand our business in media sales and services for digital networks where the display media is primarily LCD or plasma screens. Participation in this business may include investment opportunities. We believe that the growing digital advertising market presents many opportunities to leverage our products, services and financial strength. This business includes marketing related opportunities in college facilities and selected commercial niches.

With today's extended IT workplace, organizations must leverage new technologies without increasing risk and disruption. Using Sanctuary, Citrix Access Gateway customers can set and enforce granular device and application usage policies to protect desktop and server integrity, while continuing to reap the productivity benefits of their Citrix environment.

We're seeing industry-wide demand for solutions to make compliance sustainable and, at the same time, more efficient and more effective. Many companies are beginning to act on improvement opportunities identified through their Sarbanes-Oxley efforts. Increasingly, companies are undertaking projects to better leverage technology to improve information quality, automate internal controls and enhance monitoring and reporting capabilities.

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

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

The power of a focus group lies in its ability to leverage multiple channels of communication and thought. When you buckle down and really explore the many facets of a possible innovation to the organization, you are more able to make well thought-out decisions.

The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream.

We've always tried to take a look around the corner. If we are going to spend this money, is there any possibility to do something different or to better improve the infrastructure tomorrow, even if we can't leverage it today?

We've asked management that question (when a new contract would be imposed) and they haven't given us an answer. It could be immediately or they could use it for additional leverage at the bargaining table.

We believe that both IAC and Expedia have the cash flow and operating strength to support additional leverage and share repurchases and look forward to both companies taking steps in that direction.

Until September 11, they really were focusing on keeping their balance sheet rather clean and keeping their leverage modest relative to the other big carriers. Unfortunately, that all changed after 2001.

We're going to put our assets together so we can leverage one another's distribution,

We're so happy to have the resources, not only on the surgery side. We wanted to leverage all our capabilities on his behalf.