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Overall, we feel that views on the economy have probably become excessively negative in recent months on the basis of the performance of two economic indicators: exports and industrial production.

Our choice of Mickey is so obvious. He has been around so long he has become a part of American history. It just took a while to recognize his value as a national treasure. Mickey was a star at the same time Gloria Swanson reigned, the Telluride Film Festival's very first Silver Medallion recipient. After his crash, we thought his career had ended when he appeared in noir quickies, but he was rediscovered by Francis Ford Coppola and played Henry in 'The Black Stallion.' Mickey went on to win an Emmy for his performance of a mentally impaired man in 'Bill.' He still performs in live shows. No one has seen more of Hollywood than Mickey.

Our plant's outstanding record for safety and performance is a testament to the dedication of the more than 400 men and women who work at the plant. Our employees are committed to nuclear safety, personnel safety, operational excellence and continuous improvement. The last 10 years of operation have been the best performance years in the plant's history.

Our primary concern remains GM's ability to turn around the performance of its North American automotive operations.

Our primary goal is to form a high-performance sales organization to better serve our customers and our market throughout those North Carolina properties.

Our proposal offers the most affordable and credible price with the lowest-risk and most reliable high-performance solution. We have invested substantially in a pre-contract test program since the summer of 2005. This long series of successful tests has validated key design and performance discriminators, demonstrating the unequalled maturity and lowest risk of our solution.

Paolo showed that he can put in a performance even when he starts the game and he is another option. The other two strikers now know that there is somebody else on the scene.

Out of his last three starts, this was his best performance. We've got to have him now through the playoffs.

Our transportation professionals are Jevic's greatest strength -- known by our customers for special skill with heavier shipments, safe practices and hazmat expertise. Together, we are focused on improving revenue and profit performance at Jevic.

Our turnaround plan demonstrates our full focus and commitment to improving sales and profitability to enhance value for our shareholders, and under this plan, we are targeting higher performance levels across the entire company.

Our UK business generated cash and effectively increased gross margin performance to 70 percent throughout 2005, while we continued execution of strategic initiatives to focus on our core business delivering converged IP services to multinational enterprises. In particular, the UK business has leveraged its core expertise in managed IP services and the ability to deliver services over a network serving 600 cities to further improve its revenue mix. Enterprise customers now account for 92 percent of revenues.

Our underlying business performance has been good, ... We have taken a number of steps to sharpen our focus on improving shareholder value.

Overall, 2005 was a year of sustained progress for HSBC and our all-round performance during the last three years has brought impressive returns to our shareholders.

Overall, a tremendous performance by Albany. They were magnificent, but I'm really proud that it didn't knock our team out. It knocked us down, but not out.

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Overall, I am very pleased with the performance of our company in this historically difficult quarter and with the progress we've made on the integration to date,

Overall, I feel that the team had a strong performance. The guys were able to hang around and not let the other teams separate themselves. I've got a real good feeling heading into tomorrow, knowing that we have five guys capable of getting the job done.

Overall sales and earnings growth were below our expectations, reflecting performance issues as well as delays of commercial space launches and military aircraft deliveries from 1998 into 1999.

Overall, some performance results fell short of the targets we agreed to achieve in 2005.

Our solid fourth quarter performance reflects our ongoing ability to execute consistent strategies for generating top-line growth, controlling costs and improving operational efficiency. We were successful in delivering a strong cash quarter as a result of our sharp focus on working capital improvements, particularly in accounts receivables and inventory reduction.

Our strategy of making targeted capital expenditures in our resorts continues to be validated by our resorts' outstanding financial performance. We will continue to strategically invest in high-return projects that generate increased operating income at our resorts. We will also be making continued investments in key domestic and international growth projects which will enhance our overall growth rate for years to come. Our strong cash flow and superior access to low-cost debt financing will allow us to maintain our financial strength even while growing the company significantly.

Our strong performance in winter testing has given everybody a genuine boost in motivation.

Our team showed strength in the face of adversity. They did their best and Tomas showed why he is such a highly-rated driver. They are all a credit to their country. We are confident that our performance will improve at the next race, where we will again fly the South African flag with pride.

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

Our results for the quarter and, by and large, for the entire year, tell two concurrent stories. The first is one of relatively soft overall operating results. The second story is the solid performance from a number of our core assets, reflecting the continued strength of our brands.

Our results in the quarter reflect solid performance in many markets, but we are experiencing challenging conditions in several key countries, including Germany, Mexico and the Philippines,

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

Our PCI Express-to-SAS controller ICs significantly reduce performance bottlenecks and increase host bus bandwidth. With the availability of PCI Express-based servers and external storage platforms in the market, LSI controller ICs can be quickly integrated with LSI SAS expanders to deliver robust and proven interoperable SAS solutions.

Our people have such a performance culture that they want to get better every day.

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Our performance cars are true to our inherent nature, ... We're not starting with some SUV or cushy luxury car.

Our performance demonstrates that we have significantly improved our operations and strengthened our liquidity, ... We have consistently and effectively executed on every element of our turnaround plan and have clearly set the stage for a return to full-year operational profitability.

Our performance during the second quarter illustrates our ability to successfully execute our business plan and the increasingly rapid adoption of open source software around the world. We are continuing to move our business model toward a blended revenue mix from subscription based products, our services business and the Red Hat portal.

Our performance during the third quarter reflects the return on our commitment and focus on continued execution.

Our performance has been better and you knew we had a fast car when we're on the pole. This feels great. I haven't been in Victory Lane in a long time.

Our performance in both innings of the two matches was contrasting... good in one while failing in the other.

Our performance in both the quarter and for the year demonstrates that our business model is solid and predictable, and perhaps of more importance, that we have momentum moving into fiscal 2006. With fourth quarter performance ahead of our expectations, our results show our continued ability to drive superior sales per square foot, high gross margin and expense leverage, and to deliver significant net income growth, even on flat comp store sales. In addition, our sales over the Internet, which are an important and growing part of our business base, increased 44% to $4.0 million in the quarter, and for the year contributed $8.7 million to our sales.

Our performance is about as bad as it was then. Unless we fix a few things, we're probably going to continue to have poorer and poorer performance.

Our performance on the weekend wasn't anywhere near acceptable, but it was a good reminder and a good lesson to our blokes of the work-rate required at AFL level.

Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.

Our performance reflects the efficiencies that now exist in the company, and we are optimistic about our ability to capitalize on the opportunities presented by our fast growing market.

Our performance this quarter demonstrated once again that our focus and execution on long-term financial priorities translates to sustained profitable growth and a strong competitive advantage.

Our performance today was nowhere near indicative of how strong we are, so of course that's a big disappointment for us, to know we had a good chance to get some points tonight and we just couldn't capitalize on it. We're going to be busy gearing up for Long Beach, and will just try and get this one behind us.

Our performance was extremely strong reporting record sales for the fourth-quarter and fiscal year.

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Our performance year-to-date ... reinforces the confidence we have in our ability to achieve our full-year financial goals.

Our Phase 1 program has indicated that oral RSD1235 can be administered safely at clinically relevant dose levels. ... We have seen in our intravenous (IV) trials that RSD1235 appears to be effective in converting atrial arrhythmia. Since repeat-dose safety is the major barrier to chronic use of anti-arrhythmic drugs, the strong performance of RSD1235 in these safety studies is very encouraging.

Our phase I program has indicated that oral RSD1235 can be administered safely at clinically relevant dose levels. We have seen in our intravenous (IV) trials that RSD1235 appears to be effective in converting atrial arrhythmia. Since repeat-dose safety is the major barrier to chronic use of anti-arrhythmic drugs, the strong performance of RSD1235 in these safety studies is very encouraging.

Our collective challenge remains to convert these changes into improved performance in both the Premiership and the cup competitions,

Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.

Our branch performance reinforces the notion that we have developed a well-oiled network of businesses that can capitalize on these market conditions. We're very excited about the potential for the branch division.

Our capacity management and divestiture efforts, coupled with a rigid financial discipline, are having a favorable impact on our performance and will continue.

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnerships with more international and domestic companies.

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnership with more international and domestic companies. Company sponsorship and the sports lottery should be important financial sources for China's winter sports.

Overall, the figures look OK, but if you dig down deeper you see that European sales performance has been very weak, and that all the growth is coming from emerging markets.

Overall, the market performance is solid but on the other hand, concerns remain that trading volume has been low, with trading value staying at seven-month lows.

Overall, the momentum we are facing is very strong now, the performance is very healthy. We expect this to continue on to the first half.

Overall, this represents a solid start to 2006, particularly when you're measuring against the strong performance we saw last year.

Overall, it has been a brilliant performance and the bowlers excelled in tandem.

Overall it was a good performance by the guys that we brought. We were pleasantly surprised that we brought four back the second day. That was a good accomplishment for us.

Overall, I was very disappointed with the end, but not disappointed with everything we saw tonight. I thought we put on a good enough performance to win if we just finish our chances.

Overall I was very happy with the team's performance today. It was good to get that first conference win out of the way with such a balanced effort.

Our continued performance delivery has underpinned our capacity to increase the dividend,

Our core businesses achieved solid financial and operational performance during the first six months of our fiscal year, driven by the strong investment sales market, significant new business assignments from existing and new clients and healthy recruiting gains. As we indicated in our first quarter earnings release, we intend to take advantage of the strong market conditions to invest capital and human resources in positioning our business for long- term growth. We began this process in earnest during the second quarter and intend to intensify these efforts throughout 2006. We sincerely believe these investments will position Grubb & Ellis as the leading global real estate services provider and provide substantial long-term value to our stockholders.

Our core mission at Astral is to develop the careers of young artists with guidance and advice, as well as performance opportunities. In addition to our concert series, we sponsor as many as 200 presentations in Philadelphia schools and senior centers.

Our games were very close games. I believe either team could have won either game. We would like to show our best performance this time.

Our field inspectors were writing everything down and nothing was being captured. So we were looking to do performance management and live data capture. The PDA was chosen over a laptop because it was cheaper.

Our financial performance continues to be quite disappointing,

Our financial performance is unacceptable, we know that and we've been working hard to turn around North American operations to improve our financial performance,

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 Five Star dealers did an outstanding job of communicating the consumer benefits of our Chrysler, Jeep and Doge CPOV program and that was the reason for our record sales in 2005. We are pleased to end December and the year on such a high note and look to continue that performance into 2006.

Our fixed cost structure remains a barrier to acceptable financial performance,

Our girls all had a fantastic meet. We stuck everything. It was our best performance this year. Everyone was on.

Our goal is speed. However, if the girls give their best performance on the water, regardless of how fast they go, I'd say it's a mission accomplished.

Our target is to deliver demonstrable evidence to our customer that in-hub electric-drive is mature enough to meet the FRES requirement and that the hybrid power architecture can be successfully integrated with an open standards electronic architecture. Further, this is an excellent opportunity for the customer to evaluate the transformational benefits of a hybrid-electric drive that offers track-like performance at wheeled vehicle costs, which has the capability to quickly balance or shift power to mission systems that may have different requirements based on mission profile. This optimizes performance for fuel efficiency, and removes traditional armored fighting-vehicle drive line constraints, which will significantly reduce the whole-life cost of ownership.

Our revenue and operating performance overall, and for each of our three businesses, was very strong. Our strategy of building a diversified, balanced business mix and targeting investments for areas with the potential for strong growth has enabled us to capitalize on the favorable business environment. We remain focused on disciplined execution of our strategy.

Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter, ... We are confident EDS' revenue performance will improve in the second half of the year and beyond.

Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter. We are confident EDS' revenue performance will improve in the second half of the year and beyond.

I think he played outstanding and I am so happy for Ricky for some positive self-gratification that he'll get from his performance today because he certainly deserves it.

I think my dad's performance last night made very clear the challenges that the country faced, ... He made very clear the problems with Senator Kerry's record.

I think demand is very strong and I think Nokia will have a strong delivery performance in the quarter.

I think everybody will be primed for a good performance. And I guess I'd rather have experienced players who've been there and done that than a whole host of players who haven't. I'd rather be in our shoes than their shoes.

I think practice preparation is always an indicator of game performance - not necessarily 100 percent, because there are still a lot of variables there, but it?s still an indicator,

I think public perception is a big part when you talk about selling, ... In order to move things forward, if the decision was based on the performance of the club, obviously not getting into postseason is a big role in that, but I also think the fact that I became a lightning rod for criticism for the organization, with me out of the picture, it makes things easier from that respect.

I think public perception is a big part when you talk about selling. In order to move things forward, if the decision was based on the performance of the club, obviously not getting into the postseason is a big role in that, but I also think the fact that I became a lightning rod for criticism for the organization, with me out of the picture, it makes things easier from that respect.

I think remembrance of how good you better be because you have to play a lot better than the last time you played them. If revenge becomes a factor, I'm afraid you lose sight of what it is that you're trying to square away. It's our performance that we need to square away, but all of us have lived with our lack of performance that day.

I was happy with the performance, if not with the result. We should have scored more points in the first period when we made them look ordinary. Ultimately however they were too strong for us. I must applaud the way Hawks play the game. They are the fourth professional team in Scotland.

I was happy with the performance of the entire team. The team worked really hard since the fall and was extremely enthusiastic to get it started. They seemed to be in the meet 100 percent and competing hard. It was a great way to start.

I was very disappointed with the board's performance during the election months, ... I felt that they let me down. I felt they let the rate payers down.

I was very excited when I saw those marks, ... I thought I skated well and was happy with my performance.

I was very happy with the performance, particularly with the weather. I just told them not to try and do anything extra, just do as well as you could but try not to get hurt. That was our whole objective this week.

I was very happy with this performance, to come back and tie it up and be successful was very important. I just had told them to focus on all the positive things that happened.

I was very pleased with Michael's performance in only his second paid outing.

I was very pleased with our defensive performance in the second half. I realize they were conservative, but I was really pleased with our run defense the entire game, especially with us being outsized.

I was very pleased with our performance. We were very successful from a team standpoint. We have made significant progress in practice and it showed up at Wisconsin.

I was very pleased with our team's performance tonight. We took care of business and they just battled.

I was very pleased with the meet, and it was a huge step up from last week. There was the step up in performance that I was looking for, and it sets us up well for the next couple of weeks.

I was very pleased with the overall performance after making a tough start to the season. Everything is close and I don't think things will take shape for another month or so.

I was very pleased with the performance of our defense. We went from a half-court press to a full court because we were doing so well.

I worked hard on my game this summer. I got in the weight room and got stronger overall. I just worked on my game and my shooting. My performance has improved a lot.