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Given our outlook regarding the potential duration of these uncertainties, we are taking additional measures to enhance our financial performance.

From both the top- and bottom-line perspectives, Saxon delivered strong performance in a year of growth, expansion and investment in the future. By making smart investments for our clients and ourselves, we've grown all three lines of business: not just Saxon's acclaimed mutual funds, but also significant institutional asset management mandates and record performance in our private client business.

From fuel-saving hybrids to sporty, high performance vehicles, those looking to purchase a new vehicle in 2006 will be pleasantly surprised to see they have many makes and models from which to choose from. The difficult decision consumers may face now is how to narrow their selection to just one.

From her Broadway roles in Baby, Miss Saigon, Cats and many others, Liz brings her amazing voice to Provincetown for one performance only. An Evening with Liz Callaway features her hits and standards from Broadway ('Meadowlark,' 'The Story Goes On') to 1960's pop classics from her acclaimed CD, The Beat Goes On.

From our perspective, the overwhelming majority of customers want the highest performance so they can ride it as long as possible.

From our standpoint, our performance was totally unacceptable.

From our first meeting I was very impressed by her. She clearly had more potential as a dramatic actress than one would think, given her comedic performance on Friends .

From a club's perspective, if a player doesn't reach your projections in terms of performance, it really will have a negative impact on your ability to compete in the future,

From a competitive standpoint, we're better than anybody else ? you can look at it from any performance metric. We're king of the hill.

I feel like we've been waiting for this day a long time. We're anxious to get on the floor and hit our peak performance because we haven't done that yet. We feel like it's our weekend. I'm as comfortable with this team's chances of winning a national title as any other team we've had.

I feel good, I feel healthy. I feel like I am better than I have ever been from a performance standpoint.

I am certainly pleased with their performance at the county tournament, everyone who won All-County honors and the kids who didn't. They all wrestled competitively.

I am confident that top-tier performance is attainable in the near term. The retail bank has improved its performance at a rate faster than expected. Our corporate and specialty finance business continues to grow rapidly and also is performing above plan?We are entering the 21st century on very strong ground.

I am enormously proud of the cultural performance our team produced for the Closing Ceremony. Through a dynamic display of artistry and imagination, the world saw the diversity and wonder of Canada and our love of winter sport. I could not be happier with the performance.

If we simply measure his performance by these two agenda, I think the presidency has been a flop.

I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

GM has a long history of poor performance and all of sudden they start doing well. Everyone is forced to ask, 'How much further is it going to go? Is this a flash in the pan?'

GM is firmly committed to improving its performance in North America,

For more than 20 years, Discovery has been committed to providing knowledge that satisfies human curiosity across any platform. COSMEO is the latest extension of this commitment and we believe has the potential to revolutionize how our children learn and process information today. COSMEO will bring the world to students at the click of a mouse and will allow them to continue their learning experience at home and improve their performance at school.

If a fund's performance is mediocre, or the fund is having other troubles, average to above-average expenses don't help.

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.

If a manager's performance is nothing special, and he's raising fees, that's a good reason to find someone else.

If a performance of a player is not up to the standard that's acceptable, then there will be some changes, ... It could be during the game.

I don't require what Daryl requires. He likes the performance a lot more than I do. I enjoy playing with a great band. I don't need to tour.

I don't think it will have an effect on the girls' performance this Saturday. They are well-prepared.

For us defensively, we take a lot of pride in it. This year it's a little different because of the circumstances of the CBA. There are no bonuses. The guys are definitely out for just pride and feeding off that performance to move on to the next game.

Fortunately we have another opportunity to go out and get a good taste in our mouth. They say you're only as good as your last performance, and we've got one more performance to be good.

For us right now the focus is definitely going to be on results. If we can come out and definitely put together a good performance and do all the things we need to do then you gain a little psychological effect with the fact that you are going into the Open Cup Final on Wednesday. But, we go a game at a time right now since it is the end of the season. We just need to focus on taking another step forward with our team and making ourselves better and get prepared for the final push in the playoffs.

I excuse myself as it wasn't the most beautiful performance. But I worked for 12 years for this moment. The most important thing is I won the decision and the championship.

I expected this kind of performance after the Georgia game. We probably had an inflated perception of ourselves going into Athens.

I don't think you would see a difference in the performance of normal everyday tasks where you don't need to learn something new,

I don't think we've fully experienced all the emotions yet. This was the most challenging performance just because of the pressure. But coming away with the medal makes it all worth it. I know for a fact it won't take another 30 years (for the U.S to get another).

I don't think we have had a defensive performance like that this season. We came in with the mind-set to get stops. That was the key to the game for us.

I don't think we're going to change the technical specifications dramatically, ... There won't be radical changes to the technical specs, and that's a tribute to the specs we have now. The reliability and performance we have is outstanding. Change costs money. Continuity and stability is one of the best things we can provide. Based on that, I don't think we're going to change the specs dramatically.

If a deal doesn't get done, bondholders are looking at owning a credit that has seen its financial performance deteriorate at kind of a staggering rate.

For me, when I get to the venue and have the people and the audience, my performance boosts up. I skate at a much higher level. I'm one of those people that feel like I can feed off the energy and be better. I love to perform.

Globally, banks sector earnings have not kept pace with the market in recent quarters, while the oils sector relative performance has lagged behind the price of crude.

I felt I didn't want to let the city down. That's the feeling that you have out there, the appreciation of the standing ovation and the cheers, and praying you don't let them (fans) down. You want to put on a good performance for them and bring that whole atmosphere back here in San Francisco, and get everybody excited.

I felt it was our worst defensive performance of the season. We didn't have an answer for what they were doing. We didn't box out well. We didn't locate well.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

IBM had a good quarter with excellent earnings-per-share results. We continued to improve our profit performance with our strategic focus on higher-value segments of the marketplace, as well as with our emphasis on productivity and global integration.

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech,

CEOs get their jollies from the good performance of their company, ... That's where you get your kicks. It's not from an extra million you made from a performance bonus. I really believe that.

Carnegie Hall, to a musician, is the most reputable thing you can think of as a performance venue. I think the most exciting thing is to look down the list of all the people who have performed there. You are surrounded by all these great musicians.

Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end.

Ian is recognized as a leader in bringing together IT, finance and operations professionals to address critical Performance Management challenges including governance, process improvement and information technology. His proven sales leadership skills will help us achieve our revenue goals as we invest in the expansion of our research and services teams.

But it was a heck of a performance by our bullpen. Obviously it will be forgotten, but they deserve a lot of credit all the same. They had us wondering if something unbelievable (a 1-0 victory after a first-inning exit by a starting pitcher) might happen, but you know what, it didn't.

Capital markets performance was excellent, a blow-out quarter.

Carbon brakes offer the same stopping performance as steel brakes but with the added benefit of a significant weight savings, which ultimately increases fuel efficiency. Next-Generation 737s are already lighter than competing Airbus models. This structural efficiency is a fundamental reason why Next-Generation 737s fly farther, higher and with better fuel efficiency than the competition.

CBC management is unaccountable for their poor performance because of Prime Ministerial patronage.

CB Richard Ellis' conclusion confirms the board's consistently stated view that the key opportunity available to enhance value for all Wyevale shareholders stems from more intensive use of our sites through higher performance retailing, not from break-up, 'sale and leaseback' or large scale redevelopment of sites.

Based on our strong performance and preliminary market data for the first nine months in 1998, we now feel confident in declaring that we have significantly increased our market share in mobile phones to become the largest manufacturer of mobile phones worldwide,

Based on recent adverse findings for performance-enhancing substances and the subsequent allegations of trafficking in these substances, I feel that it is necessary to commission a wide-ranging inquiry to examine all the details of the allegations.

Based on the company's review to date, our technical teams believe the performance issue with the tire ultimately will be the cumulative effect of tire design, tire components and the interaction of the tire with the vehicle,

But considering fundamental economic weakness and a shaky performance for U.S. stocks, investors were not ready to push the Nikkei over 10,000,

Bush campaign aides are taking political spin to a new level. Yesterday, they had to invent phone calls to put some substances behind their candidate's performance on Oprah.

But the downside was not worth the risk. Anything that makes your performance better is always an athlete's goal ... You're talking a ton of money. It's very understandable why guys in the minor leagues would want to do it.

But the real magic is we did that step up in performance while reducing energy requirements.

Chris is never happy with his performances. He's a perfectionist, and he always sees something he thinks he could have done better. He hit every note, and I think his performance was perfect. But, I'm his mom.

China represents an enormous market and opportunity for us, both in terms of our rich online games and mobile applications, as well as our enterprise software solutions and services. Our strong performance in China during the first quarter is a clear indication of our ability to capitalize on the opportunity.

Because of this, organizations are deploying tiered storage and sophisticated software tools to efficiently manage their data and resources. Policy-based movement of data throughout its lifecycle and off-site archiving can help companies improve performance while reducing operational and storage costs.

because our performance has been so good and our creative output has been so superior -- we've never done better in our history.

Because they're so different, they're totally a reflection of society and where we are, but in performance they also connect us to each other and the audience. We're all different, we're all connected -- how do we unify? How do we find a social awareness that's larger than us?

Baron was under the weather but came out and had a great first half. He got tired in the second half. We just didn't have other guys stepping up and helping him out there offensively. We let our offensive performance affect our defense too much.

Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!

Baugh did a marvelous job - my goodness, just a great job. We needed help. Tonight, we really needed a big performance ... and man, he really stepped up.

I have been disappointed in (engineer) Dave Carlson's performance and leadership

I have always favored a mix. I don't believe in segregating music into categories. I think that exercise tends to be very arbitrary. I like to quote the jazz great Louis Armstrong on the subject: 'There are only two types of music, good and bad. I play good music.' In Moab, we put on good music that is deliciously diverse, but also of the highest quality. Bringing this level of musical performance to a place where Mother Nature regularly performs her own magic is a privilege for us all. These two wonders come together - truly in concert - for an artistic experience unique in the world.

I had made mistakes in the short program earlier this season, but I finally didn't make any. I'm satisfied more with my performance than my position. It was my best short program this season and hopefully my performance in the free skate will help take me to the Olympics.

I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there's something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey's or Destiny's Child's any day.

To concede three goals like that was disappointing because their performance merited something. We've shown what we are about and Spurs will view the results as quite fortunate.

We are exploring moving beyond silicon-based chips to significantly boost the performance of PCs. Silicon chips will continue to improve, but we need to look ahead decades into the future.

We are extremely impressed with the functionality and stability of the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation. Running both the Solaris 10 OS and Linux on the Sun Ultra 40 Workstation has vastly improved our performance and analysis times, which enables us to do more in less time and has resulted in more robust designs with shorter design cycles. I can see how the features and benefits of the new Sun workstations will be invaluable to any company involved with MCAD or visualization.

We are extremely pleased with our record performance this quarter,

We are extremely pleased with our record performance this quarter. We believe the market for semiconductor equipment may double over the next five years.

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

We've been watching Jens closely in recent weeks and have been quite impressed with his performance. We now want to take a closer look in the fitness tests.

What I'm hearing today is that AMD's performance advantage is going to narrow in the next six months, or AMD may even lose its performance advantage. That doesn't necessarily mean they're going to lose market share.

What is clearly lacking is a nationwide system for comparative performance purposes, using standard formats.

He?s a great coach. When you play his teams, that?s pretty much the standard that you judge yourself. Tonight was a good performance for our team.

He's a big-time performer. We're depending on him to give us the same type performance as he has in the past.

Hard Rock Cafe's like-for-like sales continue to improve and this was supported by exceptional performance in the hotel and casino division with revenue continuing to exceed projections. In 2005, we also successfully relocated our New York cafe from 57th Street to our new flagship location at the Paramount Theatre in Times Square. As we look forward to 2006, we will be commemorating our 35th anniversary with a global music celebration. We are also already engaged in a number of exciting new projects, including the opening of Hard Rock Hotel Madrid, the first Hard Rock Hotel in Europe.

Hardware wise, there's a lot of marketing hype about the consoles. A lot of it really needs to be taken with grains of salt about exactly how powerful it is, ... The Xbox 360 has an architecture where you essentially have got three processors and they're all running the same memory pool and they're all synchronized, and cache coherent, and you can spawn off another thread in your program and make it go do some work. That's kind of the best case and it's still really difficult to turn into faster performance or getting it to get more stuff done in a game title.

Gutsy performance by Jake. We just couldn't add on here or there to help out.

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Her performance tonight was spectacular. She just keeps getting better and better.

Her performance was exactly what they needed for them to be able to beat us. She really brought it. She was impossible for us to stop.

Her performance was nearly perfect except for the beam, but that was her last routine and she got a little conservative.

He's a competitor. He keeps the ball down and gives us a chance. We played good defense behind him, and that was a great performance for him.

We told Doug at halftime that we really needed him, and he came out and gave us a gutsy performance.

We told the computer program what performance the antenna should have, and the computer simulated evolution, keeping the best antenna designs that approached what we asked for. Eventually, it zeroed in on something that met the desired specifications for the mission.

We think a resolution would be appropriate at this point. I think highlighting the areas of deficiency in Syria 's performance ... would be important to show the Council's continuing resolve.

We think better cost performance was a key driver of the improvement in North American and possibly higher profitability on cars than we had anticipated.

With manufacturers of next generation blade servers designing so many blades into a system, high efficiency and power density, plus effective, integrated cooling are essential requirements of the power supplies they use. The D1U series delivers this performance and will help designers in realizing their next generation products.

With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there, I am in performance mode. I can only cry if I am on my own.

With most other offerings, you have to buy separate hardware accelerators to achieve the same performance levels that our software-only solution delivers. For 20% of the cost, our customers get the same or better performance across their WANs as well as the option to add high availability clusters for comprehensive application protection.

We're pleased that we are keeping our momentum, with strong growth and solid performance across all our main divisions. A strong customer focus, together with innovative products, helped expand our already strong position within healthcare, lifestyle and technology.

We're on target for our top-three performance that we predicted at these Games and are striving for.