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I'm very proud of our employees' ability to continue to generate record revenue, fueled by strong results in both our traditional banking and market-sensitive businesses. We continued to gain leverage from improving our efficiency, while at the same time investing significantly for future revenue growth.

Industry leaders such as SAP and Siemens leverage the domain expertise of TCS to deliver world-class solutions to their customers. We are delighted to join these prominent solution suppliers in achieving the objectives of manufacturing customers through collaboration with TCS.

I'm not sure that leverage coupled with technology is a natural marriage, ... but certainly technology acquisitions can make sense if the capitalization is appropriate.

If Microsoft can't get operating leverage when it's in its biggest product cycle ever (and customer interest is high), when can the company show leverage?

I love to watch Droughns run. He sees the hole and goes through it so naturally. If you get him just a little crease he gets through. He probably doesn't have the game-breaking things some of these backs do but there's not anyone who hits it any better or with more leverage between the tackles than him.

In order to leverage the portion of money received from private funding with the $400,000 Community Development Block Grant, the state wanted progress that would pull the pool and park area into the downtown Revitalization process.

In the final analysis we believe that freedom and democracy are not byproducts for economic prosperity, they are conditions for it, ... This is not the time to vote. This is not the time to give up our leverage once and for all.

If we wait too long, Windows XP will be out, and smaller companies that don't have the leverage or financing of Microsoft will be forced into years of litigation that alone could drive them out of business,

Size and leverage and balance sheets will overcome the protectionism.

Small business has been an area of success for us, but there is considerable remaining opportunity. I expect Frank's extensive experience and leadership skills will allow us to leverage this opportunity and strengthen our overall position in the market.

I'm not sure anything has changed .... Mr. Layton is not happy with the proposals he's had. He's not been happy with them for a while. And I'm not sure what his next move is, but it seems to me that he's still looking for leverage to get more out of the government rather than let the Canadian people have their say,

I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.

At Dell, we're on a mission to find, hire and develop diverse talent. Thurmond has galvanized our internal belief that to be a successful company and a great place to work, Dell must leverage the similarities and differences of employees. The Austin Area Urban League could not have picked a more deserving recipient of its 2006 Whitney M. Young Junior Award.

AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.

No back in the league gives me as much trouble, ... I'm short, and I can get leverage on the backs, but not Henry. I can't get under him. And he runs so hard. I hate trying to tackle him.

The biggest criticism against Disney is that it hasn't used strategic acquisitions to leverage franchises,

The addition of a Business Development Center and the upgrades to THRIFTYCARSALES.com will leverage our ability to drive more traffic to dealers in a uniform, cost-effective way. These new features are already resulting in increased sales at our dealerships, and will ultimately make Thrifty Car Sales dealerships even more attractive to potential franchisees.

The Australian dollar is relatively more sensitive to the global growth cycle -- not just commodities, but leverage to trade with Asia, especially China.

The big opportunity to enhance prosperity in the region, of course, is the trade agenda, ... Because, as you know, through free trade and private investment the leverage you get in terms of economic growth and enhancing prosperity really dwarfs the impact of specific aid programs.

Once again we met our performance goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and a return on tangible equity above 18% for the year. This year was exceptional. We took an opportunity to leverage our strong earnings performance by making strategic investments in the future growth of our company through a significant de novo expansion. We grew deposits faster than loans while expanding our margin. We raised additional capital through a very successful equity offering during the fourth quarter. And most importantly, this was all done while continuing to meet our primary financial goals.

Once again, UPS reported stronger-than-expected volume growth but was not able to leverage that growth into strong upside margin improvement, as yields continued to decelerate.

It's tough in the Hip Hop industry to continue to create, because the powers that be want a throw away art. They didn't think Rap Music would even last. So instead of trying to get rid of rap music, because everyone benefits from it, they try to get rid of seasoned rappers, at a point in their careers when they finally know the ins and outs of the business aspect of their careers. You see what Prince did when he realized that he didn't own anything, he put slave on his cheek. He came to a point in his career where he was educated enough to be wiser in his choices and realized his true leverage power.

Congressional committees used to have to build a substantial case of presidential involvement in wrongdoing before they could get much leverage on the White House. With Ken Starr's legacy, congressional committees will have a strong club with which to beat the president.

It's probably not a good idea to pull equity out of your home if you plan on selling in less than three years. It's not this white-hot market anymore. Houses stay on the market longer, you have fewer buyers, and having that price leverage is very important. Price really appeals to the market the most.

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

The middle market is a growing opportunity for us. Jamie and Scott have the expertise we need to leverage the strengths of the firm.

The Fed now has limited leverage over the housing market. It has been unable to tap the brakes on the housing market.

It's ironic to me, ... that as a boss, all of our leverage comes from our people, yet we very seldom focus on where those people are at, what their needs are and what it would take for them to excel in their performance.

They are looking hard for technology to get leverage with their conventional forces and to move more quickly than they have been able to in the past into the world of computers, electronics and so on.

I hope government employees will take advantage of this unique opportunity to tap our wildlife, legal and policy experts here at Defenders. Together we can leverage and ensure access to the necessary tools to conserve our nation's natural resources.

In the long term, we are planning for market growth that historically follows the introduction of new console hardware. To leverage this future growth and prepare for fiscal 2008, which we expect will be the biggest year in Activision's history, we will continue to focus on investment in our product development resources and intellectual property portfolio, growing our international operations and optimizing our worldwide cost structure and resource allocation.

In today's business environment, customers face a choice of productivity and collaboration software that can be both costly and somewhat limiting in its design and deployment characteristics. Built with more flexibility and efficient management in mind, IBM's Workplace family of software products provides a broad range of capabilities to enhance employee productivity and enable organizations to leverage their intellectual capital and adapt more quickly.

Investors have a right to be skeptical that the deal goes through as originally announced. But I don't see J&J as having meaningful leverage in negotiating a significantly lower price. I think the deal goes through with minor adjustments.

Cable companies will want to get into wireless and the only way to get into it is probably through Sprint Nextel. And Sprint Nextel has the leverage because the cable companies don't have distribution.

Chrysler Group has provided long-standing support to minority-owned suppliers and will continue to create innovative initiatives and opportunities that leverage their sustainability and growth. Chrysler Group measures suppliers with objectivity and transparency. The companies which perform best in quality, technology, systems cost and supply are winning new business contracts.

I'll say this: The leverage of having the first pick is in signing your draft pick before the draft,

By becoming part of a larger media group, it allows them to leverage wider distribution. For somebody who is a media conglomerate, it's worth more because they can package it with other channels.

He's trying to increase his leverage on Time Warner, trying to force them to do something a little more drastic than they appear willing to do.

I don't perceive this is as much of a problem, but if it became one then we'll deal with it. If Elvis and Jim wanted to use this situation as leverage to be pushed out onto the market, they could. But I have no reason to think that they want that. Is there the potential for them to do something else? Yes. But we've been given no indication that it's heading in a direction they're not comfortable with.

(Clemens) moves well. If we give him the chance, he will tuck the ball in and run. We have to make sure (to) keep leverage on him and his backs.

The vulnerability still exists in Internet Explorer in that it's very lenient in how it pulls CSS, but right now nobody is publishing a way that it can be leveraged to do something useful. That's not to say that somebody won't find a way. I'm sure somebody will come up with a creative way to leverage it to do something evil.

These numbers will be a fillip for the European Central Bank, who will be looking at the stronger recovery tone in Germany as leverage to justify higher rates ahead.

They last thing they are going to do is reduce leverage and buy back shares, ... This is all good news. Their stock's been down.

They last thing they are going to do is reduce leverage and buy back shares. This is all good news. Their stock's been down.

They want to have leverage over the activities of foreign companies.

It was obviously an excellent quarter. They're starting to see real leverage in commercial airplanes, both in terms of orders and manufacturing initiatives that are helping margins.

It was pretty tough. He had like 46 pounds on me and that makes it kind of weird, because trying to use momentum against that doesn't really work, so you can't really use your hips to get a lot of leverage ... you just have to outmuscle him.

It's a new avenue, in terms of technology. They recognize if you can leverage this whole community aspect to development, it's a huge cost advantage.

Any time a country threatens to cut off oil supplies, the people in New York say, 'Golly, that'll happen,' and the price of oil goes up. They have a little leverage with their oil production. But if you cut off oil exports, you cut off your foreign exchange earnings.

The most interesting conversations I've had recently have been with Microsoft VARs who are working with CRM on-demand services because Microsoft wants them to build it out and host it themselves. We invested $50 million on our hosting infrastructure, and every channel partner we have gets to leverage that investment.

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

As healthcare continues to lead as a topic of national concern and debate, Microsoft is committed to working with individuals, organizations and government drivers to leverage the role that technology can play in achieving healthcare transformation. With so much truly innovative work being done with our technology throughout the healthcare system, these awards are a way for us to showcase some of the leaders driving remarkable results in efficiency and patient care -- results that we think are capable of inspiring broader change across the industry.

As far as technological innovation they are ahead of the Bells. Whether they can leverage the technology to put them on an even position with the Bells -- it's possible but not probable.

The combination of tremendous competition from converged mobile devices with waning consumer demand for handhelds is forcing manufacturers to search for new or improved solutions that leverage existing hardware and software capabilities,

The combined company will leverage both companies' considerable strengths in exploration and exploitation and create new opportunities for strategic expansion,

The goal of our 'Hear Music Debut' CD series is to introduce talented, emerging artists to music fans seeking unique, new music experiences. The incredible response by Starbucks customers to Antigone Rising reflects not only our customers' strong appetite for discovering quality music but also demonstrates Starbucks' ability to leverage our unique marketing and distribution platform to the benefit of sales at traditional retail. We are extremely pleased to be working with Lava to share this special album with traditional music retailers seeking new and exciting music choices for their customers.

The downgrade reflects expectations for debt reduction in 2006, which while meaningful is nevertheless insufficient to improve leverage and other key credit ratios to a level consistent with an 'A' rating level.

The economic leverage of the state in terms of procurement for these commodities is something that is badly needed. And if we're providing state aid, then we need to have more to say about the prices that are paid for these kinds of products.

The economies of scale in this case could be considerable, and the leverage in terms of potential profits is high. It would be good purchase.

The growing strength of AMD puts Dell in a favorable bargaining position with Intel, in our view. Even if Dell does not move to adopt AMD, it is likely to continue to use them as a leverage point to gain further concessions from Intel. Intel seems likely to lose revenue and/or margin, either because Dell defects or because it is forced to offer incremental concessions to Dell to maintain their loyalty.

The guiding scene in my career is that leverage and influence.

The higher the unemployment rate, the more leverage I have to 'encourage' you to 'do what it takes' to keep your job. And so you work even more hours, pushing unemployment up and wages down. And that, my friends, is one of the little tricks that keeps you poor and me rich.

The health care system is moving to a privately-owned 'Single Payer' system where patients will have fewer choices, less leverage and higher costs. The number of the uninsured will surely increase has the insurers' control increases. If we are going to have a Single Payer system, why not let the government pay a lot less for better care instead of turning the health care system over to private insurers that take 20 percent for overhead and profit.

The idea was to leverage customer involvement in the Web site and use it as a marketing tool. Most recent surveys say customers are very interested in what other online shoppers have to say. They trust the voice of other customers more than they trust the retailer or manufacturer.

You can swap, but the better thing to do is use the threat of swapping as leverage for getting a better deal. That's what keeps the vendors honest and competing against one another.

The focus of this new organization is to fully leverage the Internet to not only sell systems and solutions, but also to build stronger relationships with our customers -- from personalized Web sites for consumers to highly integrated extranets for global corporations.

An attacker may leverage these issues to carry out a denial-of-service attack or execute arbitrary code on an affected computer with the privileges of the user viewing a malicious image. An attacker may gain system privileges if an administrator views the malicious file. Local code execution may also facilitate a complete compromise.

The major element of the control of leverage and capital is the structure of the counterparty relationship,

The Final Four is becoming one of the premier events in the country from a corporate perspective. It's becoming more and more the approach of the big sponsors to leverage these events as opportunities to get close to their big clients.

The first quarter was another strong operating quarter for MGM MIRAGE. We continued to build on our foundation of world-class resorts, and we also made significant progress on meaningful development projects which we believe will leverage our strengths -- management, brands, financial discipline -- and lead to sustained growth for many years to come.

The confirmation of our plan is a clear validation of the work we have done to make United a sustainable enterprise with a strong financial and operational foundation. We will leverage that foundation to take full advantage of the opportunity we have to compete for leadership in the U.S. and worldwide.

The company offers many compelling positives, including a recurring revenue, high operating leverage business model and solid long-term performance,

The community history of the Chestnut Street branch is gigantic. We'd like to leverage that into expanded programming. There's a lot of good work already going on there and we want to enhance that.

The hotels are confronting a union that has significantly more leverage and more imagination than in the past. The union is slowly but surely introducing national bargaining in an industry in which the companies used to tower over the local unions.

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

It's the first time I've seen a radio group and premier Internet property get together and look at ways to share and leverage content.

It's the leverage of surprise for the legacy carriers. Everyone was expecting another horrible year, oil prices were climbing.

It's always possible. It's a tough business and certainly that's not unknown that they leverage one city against the other. I don't believe so myself. I think they have some serious interest in San Antonio. But perhaps I'm of a trusting nature.

It provides more ammunition for the doves arguing for more moderation, and takes leverage away from the hawks arguing for (a bigger, half-percentage point) hike.

It really boiled down to two companies that saw an opportunity and (a way) we could both leverage assets.

As we better understand the molecular pathways that account for newborns' susceptibility to infections, we can leverage them to enhance their immune defenses.

As we continue to expand our business in the UK market it is important that we enter into strategic partnerships with licensees that have a presence in the market. UK-based AVA Leisure is able to leverage its customer base to our poker network with their background in the arcade arena. We believe the tie in to poker will be a natural.

The numbers look good. The earnings show the operating leverage is still strong.

This move was a natural for us. The product synergies created by combining our companies allows us to more fully leverage our capabilities and offer our clients a broader range of services.

This president is not the esteemed public figure he was four years ago when he had considerable capital and high job-approval ratings and was able to leverage that into success in the mid-term elections. Now he's in reduced circumstances politically, but that doesn't mean you abandon the field and give up trying to help candidates and your party.

There wasn't a conscious effort to make next year this windfall where we can build for the future, it just kind of happened. But any time you have leverage like that, it has to be a plus for you.

They feel, and I think they are right, that they are going to have their best leverage in conference.

They must do something that's going to leverage traffic in the mall. They can't get totally away from fashion. They've got to come up with something else whether its making the jewelry area bigger or making the denim area bigger.

They need to generate community interest in the actual development project and then establish a business model that can leverage the benefits of that community.

They have a fiber-rich network. We see a big opportunity to leverage that for video and other services.

It seems that the emphasis on expanding distribution outweighs the quest for positive operating leverage in the near term.

It's a big deal wherever this card is sold. I was thinking how could I leverage the publicity value of this card. I thought it would be really something if I approached eBay with this idea.

We lose a little bit of leverage now. People realize he doesn't quite fit for us. It ties our hands a little bit.

We challenge our companies to leverage their global leadership by developing and implementing a set of meaningful best practices.

We don't think of this as cable operators pushing a cell phone service. We want to leverage what Sprint has outside the home and create services and features so that consumers can take whatever media they have with them.

We expect prices to continue to decline. Leverage helps on the way up and it hurts on the day down. Boston Scientific recognizes it and that's why they want Guidant.

We expect that Del Monte will apply its free cash flow to debt reduction over the intermediate term to improve credit measures to those more commensurate with the current rating. The rating could be lowered if Del Monte is unable to reduce leverage as planned.

We help companies leverage all of their communications and expenditures in their communications behind simple, focused, clear, compelling messages.

We think it is unlikely that these changes will modify purchasing and demand characteristics of medical devices. Hospitals have traditionally had little leverage in reducing device costs.

It's a benefit (employees) couldn't get on their own because they are an employee of this (bank) customer. We leverage our relationship with our customers.