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Walt Disney World engineers and ride system experts completed a thorough inspection of the attraction overnight and found it to be operating properly. A representative from the state Bureau of Fair Rides Inspection monitored the ride inspection and testing.

Voters are saying that they want someone capable of operating a government, someone who is steady at the helm. And considering the challenge to the city right now, I don't think that's a fact that should surprise anyone.

Trading over the counter for a company the size and importance of Coors is operating somewhere in the Stone Age.

Traditionally, operating systems had been written in tight assembler to extract the absolute highest efficiency possible out of their host machines.

Time Warner had another strong quarter on an operating basis against some tough comparisons, ... I continue to be very enthusiastic about the performance of our businesses.

The project would revitalize an area that has been underutilized and hasn't had much done to it in recent years. This expansion would be a big improvement and would go a long way to ensuring that clients remain here and the airport keeps operating at a high level.

When you're on that operating table, knowing they're about to cut you open and work on your heart, you realize that basketball isn't really the most important thing in the world.

When you're operating at high volume with limited storage and large trucks making the delivery, you don't have to be just a little bit out of phase to be out of gas.

To break even only would have satisfied us. As one advisor said, it would be far better to invest (Challenger's operating costs) directly into social work and community projects.

We are continuing to experience a normal operating day.

We are continuing to work. We are making adjustments to our operating modalities, to our staffing, to where our priorities are,

We still don't have completely DCI-compliant systems operating in the marketplace. This year will see that those systems come together and begin to get integrated.

We still have a couple thousand people split between hardware and software. When you look back at the people that originally created the operating system, it was a small team. We've done creative things at Apple typically in small teams.

We recognize that and are operating the business in a distinct way.

We are learning about Hong Kong's laws, regulations, and company operating practices. Only after we are familiar with these can we do business there.

We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.

We are operating in a large vacuum. It's exceedingly difficult to speculate.

We are operating in a manner that we unfortunately must do, under the circumstances." ()

We are operating on a shoe-string budget as a community theatre and need funding.

We are operating our full schedule of flights, honoring tickets and reservations as usual, and making normal refunds and exchanges.

We are operating under the assumption that they will extend.

We are operating within a U.N. mandate, and we intend to do as much as we can and look for other ways to provide support for the Macedonian government well within that mandate,

We're not going to ignore anybody at this point in time. The league will be operating in early April and we'll have a chance to look at those games to see if any of those players are a possibility for our April game or are still considerations for our roster.

We pride in operating legally, ethically and responsibly. We believe the Interior Department does not have the power to take away the royalty relief that was granted by the Congress in 1995.

We are concerned about the possibility that the next Vista operating system will include various elements which are currently available separately from Microsoft or other companies.

We are confident that our operating results, excluding the impact of special items, will meet or be slightly favorable to our prior guidance of a loss of 4 cents per share.

We pride ourselves on operating legally. Now the Interior Department is claiming it has the power to cancel royalty relief granted by Congress.

The outlook for the year remains unchanged, which means that the group should achieve an improvement in operating income,

The patch is applied in the operating room, directly on the incision. The objective here is to eliminate any potential lapse in pain control from the time local anesthetic wears off to the time the lidocaine patch takes effect.

The police are using brutal harassment and detention without charge to clear transgender people off the streets. These attacks reflect a law enforcement system that is unchecked and operating outside the law.

We're not the little utility we used to be, ... We probably need to do a better job in staffing and operating our facilities.

We are actively looking for a CEO for the AOL division. That should come as no surprise since when Bob took the post in April, it was always noted an interim job for him. Bob is and has been the AOL Time Warner chief operating officer and in that regard nothing has changed.

We are pleased that our strong top-line momentum continued this quarter across all operating divisions and on top of the outstanding growth achieved in the year ago period. We are especially encouraged that global pricing was positive for the first time in two years, despite difficult cost and competitive environments.

We are pursuing opportunities to sell this technology to other luxury motor manufacturers, and to companies operating in the vehicle accessory market.

We are quite pleased with our results for the quarter and continue to believe that we have a powerful operating platform that can generate strong growth well into the future.

We believe carefully managing the average age of our fleet allows us greater flexibility in addressing the cost and reliability issues involving tractor engines designed to comply with stricter emissions requirements in 2007 and generally lowers our operating expenses.

We believed we were operating within the system, but we recognize the confusion of the process.

We believe FEI is poised for improvements in operating efficiency following the conclusion of its reorganization and restructuring efforts in 2005. We see FEI as undervalued due to its prior struggles and believe that the impact of its recently completed reorganization has yet to be appreciated by the market.

We want to keep this team operating and not shut down. We want to give our guys the opportunity to showcase their talents. We're not expecting any money back.

We want to look at how they're operating, if they should be operating at those locations or developing the parcels for facilities and utilities.

We delivered another excellent quarter with strength in all areas of the business. Our strong operating results this quarter were driven by increased revenue growth, improved capacity utilization, favorable product mix and the timing of our spending initiatives.

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 delivered on our commitments in 2005. We are pleased with this performance, but clearly are not yet satisfied. We are focusing on a number of initiatives to enhance operating results and grow revenues in 2006 and beyond.

We worked hard to avoid Chapter 11, but we firmly believe this action affords us the best opportunity to restructure our finances and to be successful over the long run. We have valuable assets, including our dedicated employees who continue to focus on operating a safe, reliable airline. We plan to emerge from this Chapter 11 case as a lean and competitive regional carrier flying for Northwest or other major airlines.

We don't know the outcome of this. DP World owns us, but we're operating without any control or direction from DP World. Until we hear otherwise or until they dispose of us - however they wish to do that - that's the way it's going to remain.

We are meeting the most demanding customers in the world, used to high quality and high service levels. Anyone operating in this market has to satisfy these demands.

We want the public to feel ownership in the process. We have to look at our finances. We have $1.5-million to work with. We are operating under two constraints -- time and money. If the public comes back with more (money for other options), it's up to council to approve it. Council is an integral part of the process.

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

We'll stop operating our buses and working on them, if we don't have an agreement by noon. Hopefully, we'll have an agreement, but if that doesn't happen, we'll just stop the service.

What we've done to get all five teams in the position where they are right now is not by hiding information from each other. We're operating strong as a crew. We have to continue to operate strong because we need to try to work on finishing one through five next and we can do it, I think, if we continue to work together.

There are many research reports that try to compare the number of vulnerabilities between Linux and other operating systems but none take into account the severity of the issues. ... This report shows there are relatively few critical issues affecting users of Linux-based operating systems. However, we believe even one is unsatisfactory, and our strategy is to rapidly respond to fix these issues whilst innovating new technology to reduce the risk of future issues.

We buy applications, not platforms. If the applications don't run on Windows 2000, then we won't buy it. Just because a new operating system is out doesn't mean we are going to buy it. The third-party apps will need to support it.

We believe that we will continue to experience incoming order rates in excess of quarterly revenues for several quarters, although quarterly bookings will remain volatile. Critical to our success will be the ability to meet the needs of our major customers, alleviate the supply chain constraints restricting revenue growth, and drive increasing operating margins at higher business volumes.

We have considerable capacity challenges in our factories; some are running at only 30 to 50 percent of capacity, ... Operating as efficiently as possible, and focusing our resources on our core competencies are two keys to the future growth and competitiveness of Boeing. Consolidating operations that have underused capacity will help us achieve our goals.

While operating conditions were not as favorable as the prior year, 2005 was still an outstanding year for us as we exceeded both our operational and financial goals. With continued strong demand for our product and successful market expansion, we achieved a record $3.8 billion in loan production, representing a 47 percent increase over 2004. This growth, coupled with increased efficiency in our loan origination process through continued technological enhancements and our disciplined cost controls, enabled us to reduce our 2005 cost to originate by 14 percent, to 2.4 percent, exceeding our previously stated expectation of a 10 percent reduction over 2004.

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 operating performance has improved somewhat, the reduced booking levels continue, and as a result, revenues are not as strong as we had previously anticipated.

While revenues continue to be soft, our focus on gross margin, inventory levels and operating expenses is driving substantial profit improvement,

When legal opinions diverge, as they have here, legislative clarification is essential in order for school districts to move ahead operating on a level playing field. We'd just like to know what the rules are.

UAV-3 provided unprecedented intelligence information to combatant commanders almost continuously since its arrival in theater. The men and women who designed, developed and are now operating Global Hawk -- in the Air Force and on the industry team -- take enormous pride in the performance of this system.

Though delivery of superior solutions to our customers and creating sustainable value to the shareholders remain unchanged, we are devising strategies in anticipation of challenges and opportunities to focus on execution for higher operating productivity.

We continued to make good operating progress in 2005. Setting aside restructuring and impairment charges, our 2005 pre-tax income on Continuing Operations increased $21.9 million over 2004 and was $36.0 million higher than in 2003.

We do have a rough idea of the area that he is operating from. And if he comes across our troops, they will try and arraign him.

We have full operating room schedules on Feb. 2 and will be providing normal anesthesia services throughout our facilities.

We have been on a constant drive to create operating efficiencies, while maximizing the effectiveness of what we do for our client. This goal is driven both by our own desire to run a good business, and our client's need to minimize costs.

We have been operating the business and executing the business plan.

We are collaborating to feed 500,000 people a day, operating 270 shelters, but as you can see the need is to have more monetary donations to help,

We've been shipping 64-bit chips for over 10 years, and the operating systems that go with that are mature and bug free, and are in real-time. They haven't achieved any of this yet, and already, the first product on the market is three years late. So it's going to take so long for them to learn. But we know they're headed this way.

When operating systems began integrating features that were in other systems, they were well on the road to becoming undifferentiated from each other. With widgets, they see an opportunity to win users by being unique in how free content is pulled into the system.

To avoid bankruptcy, GM needs to see Delphi get restructured and operating in a manner that would not disrupt their supplies and operations. How they address that is a key hurdle.

There has been a glaring lack of entry and exit protocols both before and after 9/11. It's hard for me to imagine other industrialized nations operating any differently.

There has to be operating standards for every facet of the operation, it's not that they're mysterious. The university never mandated that they be here. And that will stop,

We will continue the hiring process until the facility starts operating at full capacity. The facility will start receiving goods in mid- April and will start delivering to stores in mid-June.

We will continue to move swiftly on three fronts as we proceed with our divestiture program ? building stronger businesses in paper packaging and forest products; focusing our portfolio on these core businesses; and exercising both operating and financial discipline.

We will continue to report these emissions to the state, as required by our operating permit.

We knew it would be a difficult operating environment in the first quarter, and I am very encouraged by the better than expected performance of our company. I am especially pleased with how our people delivered these results. We are fully committed to growing revenue, controlling costs and improving return on assets across all of our businesses.

We think they're positioned very well to compete with the satellite TV folks and the regional bell operating companies. Their competitive position is based on their ability to offer the triple play.

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're not obligated to license this source code. But one thing is perfectly clear. If you're not able to understand these protocols, the source code is the ultimate documentation. It is the DNA of the Windows server operating system.

We're not operating at full production at this point. We are meeting commitments to the customers.

Wal-Mart continues to show strong momentum and operating performance, ... Its food and apparel sales did well, which fits in with our thesis that Wal-Mart is really taking on the supermarkets. By adding new apparel name brands like Levi's, I think it's in a position to see tremendous success in apparel too.

Wal-Mart continues to show strong momentum and operating performance. Its food and apparel sales did well, which fits in with our thesis that Wal-Mart is really taking on the supermarkets. By adding new apparel name brands like Levi's, I think it's in a position to see tremendous success in apparel too.

Wal-Mart has identified a strategy of urban expansion, and they're not going to walk away from it, ... They know that operating in an urban market is different from the suburbs and I'm sure they were already aware of things like zoning laws. Did they really need to put up a fight in Inglewood? No. What they did here is lay down the marker. Wal-Mart is saying that they've identified a new market and they're going to move it and attack.

We've bumped up operating shock tolerance from 250Gs to 350Gs, and non- operating shock is 900Gs.

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

We have said for some time that Windows 2000 will have a slow ramp because companies take time to test and deploy new operating systems. Windows 2000 is basically a second half of 2000 story.

We are all for community air service. However, we do not provide operating subsidies. Our funding is for construction activities.

Writing a cross-platform worm is difficult because it limits you to functions that are available on both operating systems. You have to also code the virus in assembly to make it work without relying on any OS-specific function.

With the world facing historically high crude oil prices, China's labor cost advantage becomes even more precious because no other country can control operating costs and keep them as low.

With this transaction behind us, we can sharpen our focus on our other improvement priorities, such as streamlining our operations and expanding our core businesses in advanced water treatment, water and wastewater solutions, space, defense electronics and leisure marine in order to provide greater potential for growth and profitability. We will continue operating our portfolio toward achieving premier multi-industry performance, with an improved growth profile, increased margins and a more efficient use of capital.

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

We achieved a record year at Famous Footwear. The Famous Footwear management team did an outstanding job of execution, driving double- digit operating earnings gains through improved product assortments, good inventory management and expense control, and the effective use of themed marketing (across our advertising, in-store, and in our direct-to-customer pieces). As a result, our traffic levels were up every quarter versus last year, as customers responded well to our offerings.

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

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.

Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.

Whether or not an operating system has a remote command shell says nothing about its ability to withstand other attacks such as denial of service attacks.

While market conditions will continue to be competitive, we fully intend to expand our business and grow market share profitably in 1999. The company will continue its aggressive drive of reduction of cost and operating expenses in the face of a very competitive market.

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.

We believe that Compaq also did a good job on the profitability front, which should enable operating margins to more than double from third-quarter levels ... this should lead to earnings-per-share at least several cents higher than the consensus First Call estimates of $0.16.