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That's not expected. It doesn't really affect the operations but it's something nasty in the results anyway.

That particular Iraqi special operations force came under fire as they were conducting this operation, and in the process the Iraqi special operations forces killed 16 insurgents. They also, in securing the objective there, detained a number of other individuals, approximately 15, is what I've heard.

As an innovator in the security and compliance management market, Archer is pleased that SC Magazine views our security products as the preferred choice to align information security and compliance processes with our client's objectives. Our solutions allow large government agencies to better manage their day-to-day security operations and compliance requirements. We thank our government customers for continuing to work with us to develop more intuitive products that are specifically designed to meet their changing needs.

As Delta takes steps to secure its future as a competitive airline, we will continue to take a hard look at all of our operations and assets to identify opportunities to strengthen our financial position in the face of continuing market pressures and factors outside of our control, including fuel prices.

Although Hurricane Katrina moved through a core area of offshore operations and damaged many production and exploration facilities, early reports indicate that the vast majority of facilities could be ready to come back on line in days and weeks, rather than months,

Although I never knew Ray Kroc, his vision and legacy lives within all of us. By focusing our full-time best efforts on operations excellence, we can keep Ray's vision alive for the next 50 years.

Although it may seem that we are on the course to attain the operating profit margin target in the new fiscal year, we should manage operations more carefully because contingency risks could emerge at any time. In addition, Sony is also recovering.

Although the CAN-SPAM Act has helped catch some spammers, and driven some to base their operations overseas, it has an obvious flaw: it relies on people to 'opt-out' of receiving spam rather than 'opt-in' in the first place.

Although the government has vast amounts of information at its disposal, ministers do not at present have timely access to the mission-critical information that would enable them to spot major systemic failures in the operations for which they are directly responsible.

American's operations are virtually normal today as the pilots' sick list continues to shrink.

Although the merger of BP and Amoco involves companies of enormous size, and there is a significant trend toward concentration in the petroleum industry, the operations of these two companies rarely overlap in a way that threatens competition.

Although there are redundancies and certain assets may be more valuable to third parties, ... we believe that a substantial portion of PFE is complementary to Universal's filmed entertainment operations and globalization strategy.

Ambassadors International clearly has established itself in the cruise industry through its outstanding operations of American West Cruises. Even though we are privately-held, we continually look for opportunities to improve corporate value. Our decision was driven by the need to focus on growth opportunities in our core business and because of other investment considerations. Delaware North Companies decided it was in its best interest to find a company that could continue the tradition of excellence that has always been part of the Delta Queen. We have found that in Ambassadors International.

A lot of our Red Cross people are down there that were sent immediately and so we're just short. All agencies that do relief operations are short and we're just trying to work together.

This guy was my No. 1 target, ... Bin Laden is, of course, more important symbolically, but in terms of practical day-to-day operations ... this is the guy you want.

They've done this with consummate skill and professionalism and success. I don't think there's a citizen who isn't proud of the way our military has performed in these operations and is performing every day

Publicly, Northwest has to maintain the impression that operations are normal and that AMFA members are no longer needed, ... underway and proceeding smoothly.

Our third-quarter financial results demonstrate the ongoing strength of our business, ... Starbucks operations are functioning at a more sophisticated level than ever before. Our consistently strong performance positions us well to achieve our aggressive fiscal 2005 goals -- including an acceleration of store growth as we pursue the Company's expanding global opportunity.

Private sector users have the same security and critical operations issues as government workers. Shutting down the RIM network for anyone seems like an extreme measure.

Profit Technologies is committed to providing financial institutions across the country with responsive, experienced client managers. Leigh has a passion for consulting and problem-solving with banking clients. Her background with First Data, one of the largest payment and financial services vendors in the country, will provide our clients with advice and knowledge they can leverage in managing their bank operations to maximize earnings.

Ron Lancaster and Craig Smith have done a great job discovering talented players like Kevin. The entire football operations staff is committed to improving our football team and will continue to search for players who can help our team.

San Diego has become more of a headquarters for business and management operations of all sorts.

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.

Our aim in all these operations is to capture where possible, in order to use the intelligence value that these detainees may have for us, ... In every instance when our forces go into operations like this, we provide them with the authority to use whatever force is necessary to accomplish their missions. We have to expect that in those circumstances, casualties do occur. We have not suffered any casualties at this point, but casualties have occurred on the other side.

O'Sullivan emerges from Chapter 11 with new ownership, a very manageable debt load, leaner more efficient operations and a renewed focus on our customers and consumers. O'Sullivan has had its challenges in the past, but we are now poised to drive sales and profitability for O'Sullivan and our key customers through innovations in design, assembly, merchandising, advertising and promotions.

Our execution excellence strategy has delivered an outstanding first quarter. We have managed our cost structure effectively, responding quickly to changes in traffic. Our operations team has done an excellent job delivering improved fluidity, with average train speed increasing 17 per cent, yard processing time decreasing a full 32 per cent, and car velocity up 15 per cent over the same period last year.

Our decision to implement changes in supply chain operations is a difficult one, but it is the right one for the business. The high costs of an inefficient supply chain are simply not acceptable. By moving quickly we will capture substantial savings this year, and be positioned to reap even greater cost savings in fiscal 2000 and beyond,

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value -- fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value,

Ten years of planning and seven years of flight operations were realized early this morning when we successfully picked up our return capsule off of the desert floor in Utah.

Teresa's leadership skills, merchandising knowledge and store operations experience are vital assets for driving the future success of The Great Indoors,

President Hosni Mubarak called for the immediate ending of military operations against Iraq due to the extreme damage it is causing to Iraq and its people and the region,

prepare for operations should military action against Iraq become necessary.

FEMA response and recovery operations are a top priority of the department and as we know, one of yours,

Empire is a leader in its market and is setting standards in business performance that should be adopted by other businesses with last mile delivery needs. Using our solution, Empire will be able to continually optimize their operations and achieve an even greater return on their investment.

Enron's practice of using prepaid transactions to understate debt and overstate cash flow from operations made its financial statement look much stronger; that in turn helped Enron maintain its investment rate credit rating and support -- even boost -- its share price,

First of all, the agreement has not threatened the security and stability of the core operations of the Internet. For users, nothing is going to change from the present situation. This is very good because untried models, which had been discussed, could have been destabilizing.

During the quarter, our U.S. Gulf Coast operations were significantly impacted by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Dennis. Despite these impacts, our overall operating performance for the quarter was good, and we continued to benefit from the strong commodity price environment.

During the second quarter, all areas of our business, from our retail operations both domestically and internationally, to our specialty businesses delivered strong financial performance, ... Additionally, innovation was prevalent throughout the company and we believe recently announced initiatives combined with our core retail business provide a powerful platform for future growth.

Even excluding the charge, European auto operations continue to be a big drag.

Eric has dramatically improved the profitability of McAfee during 2005, significantly growing net operating margin. In addition, he has significantly improved the business and financial operations of the company. We look forward to having Eric improve all company operations in his expanded role.

There's a crucial difference in costs for procuring parts and materials between big operations and small ones.

There was absolutely no effect on our operations in Albany.

The results reflect an excellent performance from all of the business operations of the club. Football business has moved much closer towards a sustainable cost base for the long term.

There's no doubt that there has been a very porous border in the west (with Syria), and military operations have focussed on that over the past year.

This should send a clear message to airport sponsors everywhere. Treat every user fairly and don't try to stop legal operations with illegal regulations.

With any legal action in the E.U. likely to take place over an extended period, we do not foresee a substantial disruption to Qualcomm's operations over the next 12 to 18 months.

This time, because there was something else a little more important in the headlines for these newsgathering operations to deal with, they virtually didn't cover this at all, ... Consequently, I would say on the order of several million people who probably would like to have watched 'Survivor' might not even have known it was on.

This transaction makes a lot of sense for First Community and for Pacific Western. Cedars' size, business focus and loan portfolio align with our existing operations and enhance our footprint in Southern California.

This year the real question is 'how do we streamline our operations so we don't get nailed so hard when these energy prices spike like they do'.

Weather typically poses the greatest risk in the first quarter of the year, and the favorable weather early in 2006 helped both the barge operations and manufacturing businesses significantly.

We are slightly raising our prior guidance on earnings per share for 2000 to $3.14, which would represent a 67 percent increase, versus 1999's EPS on ongoing operations of $1.88.

This was an expected procedural vote by the pilots union leadership and in no way impacts our operations or our preference to reach a consensual agreement in time to save the company.

TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all.

The way that emergency operations act under the law is the responsibility and the power, the authority, to order an evacuation rests with state and local officials. The federal government comes in and supports those officials.

This case is the latest of several joint operations demonstrating our commitment to protecting New York neighborhoods from violent street gangs. For years, this Latin Kings crew controlled the drug trade in the area of Jefferson Street and Central and Irving Avenues in Brooklyn through fear and intimidation. With this prosecution we have ended their reign and taken another step toward returning one of our communities to its law-abiding residents.

This acquisition allows us to move the final stages of image sensor silicon processing and other critical manufacturing steps from our Boise manufacturing operations to this new facility, which at the same time will free up space in our existing facilities and allow us to continue to meet expanding demand for our products.

This convenient new tool gives customers up-to-the-minute access to their accounts, helping producers better manage the daily operations of their farm or ranch.

This game will serve as a 'dress rehearsal' for everyone -- the stadium operations staff, concessionaires, vendors, ushers, grounds crew, broadcasters, umpires, news media and our fans. We want our fans to have the best experience possible when we formally open on April 10 vs. Milwaukee.

This is one of the most complex, challenging and most successful military operations we have ever run,

This is one of the most complex relief operations ever. I am appealing to people and governments around the world to support us in this humanitarian work.

This is a multipurpose, offshore installation vessel. It has a large loading capacity and is suitable for operations in remote areas, deep waters and high seas,

This is a case where we were arguing about the wrong part of the problem. Americans were shocked to learn that the vast majority of port operations in this country are handled by foreign firms. But transportation is a global network, and we're not going to own all of it.

Your lack of effectiveness, and poor decision making has only led me to conclude that it is now time to move the investment operations at BWC in a new direction with new leadership.

This is another predictable report by an organization trying to advance an agenda through the use of distortions and errors in fact, ... It's a shame they refuse to convey how seriously the military has investigated all known credible allegations of detainee abuse and how we've looked at all aspects of detention operations under a microscope. . . . Humane treatment has always been the standard no matter how much certain organizations want people to believe otherwise.

This is an unfortunate sequence of events but also part of the business. Rig failures do occur at times and are out of our control, we don't know at this point how long the delay will be until we resume drilling operations but we are not expecting it to be too long. The positive news here is that the logs show us encouraging evidence that we are in a good reservoir that needs to be exploited and we plan on doing so once this issue is resolved.

This is a possibility for kids who are interested in getting into resort operations or for someone who wants to finance spring break. College students are the perfect demographic because they are intelligent and can be trained in a week.

This is a program that incorporates all of the 'Big Brother' operations that the American public has feared from its government all these years and that the Constitution has protected us from -- spying, invasion of privacy, you name it. And Admiral Poindexter, of all people, is now in charge of that program.

This is not the Prussian general staff. They don't think about operations the way we think about operations.

In March, I visited the (World Wide Technology) facility in Austin (Texas) during our Piedmont Triad Partnership mission to call on Dell suppliers, ... Their operations are impressive. As we learned there, WWT warehouses products from more than 50 other suppliers to get those items to Dell as needed.

In many cases our operations are producing record volumes, with production records set in iron ore, molybdenum, coking coal, bauxite, alumina and upgraded titanium slag in 2005.

In coming months, we will be working towards successfully integrating Air Sahara operations into our own.

In all four countries, it is clear that WFP will have to expand its existing operations to drought-affected populations in order to address the increasing needs. While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

The Navy's battle force in the last eight years has been cut by one third. And the Air Force reports that it is now called on to mount four times as many operations with a force that has been cut by 40 percent,

I've essentially doubled the business since I've been here in two years. And we're going to do more. Our corporate award line is really expanding and I've got enough room here to expand operations when it's necessary.

In either case I have to point out my opposition to Guatemala participating in armed operations in any part of the planet. We can't tolerate that they declare them martyrs and heroes and let that be enough to prevent an investigation into the matter.

In certain aspects, I would suggest that students should go for a budget hotel because then they have more responsibility and are exposed to a wider picture in a short duration. In a big hotel where there is a huge hierarchy, in both length and breadth, the scope to get even the basics of all operations is a mammoth task. Also, a budget hotel has promotional advantages, which is quicker, easier and comparatively competitive as far as the package is concerned.

increase the number of special operations forces available for missions worldwide, while expanding their capabilities in some key areas.

Increasing concerns over supply shortages in the U.S because of the outages at refineries in the Gulf Coast and disruptions to refinery operations in France are giving support to the market.

India is a booming market and it is logical to set up operations close to the boom.

India is an integral part of the expansion of our global operations and we see India and Europe as partners in this growth. Our vision is to be the pre-eminent Business Processing Services Company through shared values and cultures across our global operations. To support our growth plans for India we will be investing $150 million and adding 3000 people over the next 5 years.

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

In a time of modern warfare it is requiring joint exercises or operations to deter the enemy. But with regard to conducting joint warfare, the army doesn't talk to the air force. The navy doesn't talk to the army.

In each instance, Sam has done far more than manage operations effectively, ... He has made it both his personal mission and that of IBM to become the number one competitor in each of these markets. Sam's unique mix of strategic vision, passion and discipline, combined with his intimate understanding of IBM, make him the right person to become IBM's next CEO.

If there's any drawback, it would be in terms of how higher prices would affect the margins in their refining operations -- but that's not an issue now because of capacity constraints we have here in the United States.

if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack.

(Impact fees) will not fund salaries. Station 1 needs to be replaced, but there is a greater need for funds to increase operations and more firefighters. Right now, that?s the area that everyone seems in agreement that needs the most attention.

I have never seen a time like this before when the business opportunity from our international operations was so vibrant.

Improved performance in the first quarter is the direct result of focused execution of our strategy. Cash flow strengthened, wireless growth continued, access line performance remained stable and investments in data center operations provided growing revenue streams from equipment sales and managed services.

I loved operations, and I loved operations far from the headquarters. I had no passion for corporate.

In our operations around the globe we are focused on sustainable development as a part of who we are and how we do business. This agreement demonstrates our commitment to living this value.

In our discussions with Transitional, we were impressed with the quality of its operations and the strategic potential of our combined company.

In the face of a challenging market environment ... we're taking significant steps to take costs out of the business and streamline our operations to more efficiently manage our brand portfolio and more closely align our business with rapidly changing customer and consumer needs.

In the first of what will be a series of steps, ... the board has established an executive compensation committee to strengthen C.P.B. governance, with the guidance of outside counsel to ensure that appropriate changes are made in C.P.B. operations in this area.

Integrated hog operations tend to like to have their own feed-milling capacity. They tend to locate hogs generally within 50 to 60 miles of that feed mill.

Integrating all Compaq manufacturing operations into a single, cohesive organization is essential as we build the future Compaq.

In some companies, operations and the business unit not only speak a different language, but have no way of talking about risks. Security people tend to think 'It's a risk, we can't have it,' whereas business people weigh risks and how they could affect the bottom line.

If you choke an airline enough, you'll kill it. It's dangerous slowing operations when the company's in such a delicate position.

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

Nokia is differentiating its enterprise Wireless email solution with a Network Operations Center-independent approach that will gain attention from operators and enterprises seeking cost effective alternatives in an increasingly crowded space.

None of that has come to pass, and I'd like to think it's because we have more effective and integrated operations between the Haitian National Police and the U.N. police.