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We've taken a disciplined approach to reducing debt, improving liquidity and increasing financial flexibility. We will continue executing strategies that improve operations, strengthen our balance sheet and reduce debt.

The public and private sectors are increasingly pursuing complementary strategies to advance system performance. Janet is the exact right person to help accelerate and focus this positive and critically important direction.

We have lot of pent-up strategies we want to get into place, but we also want to hear what other people want to say.

Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

The proliferation of alternative news outlets has made the competitive landscape more intense for local broadcasters. Digital strategies must now be integrated into everyday operations or news organizations will be quickly outpaced.

We set a higher goal each time and develop strategies and activities to achieve them. We need to give credit to students, parents and teachers who help each student achieve their best. It's not what we do here at the central office. We just try to meet their needs.

We're kind of guiding (school use of professional development time) more into a specific focus on the school improvement plan. I think this year we all learned from our pilot that we may have tried to do too much, in introducing a multitude of teaching strategies and things. We want to go more in depth on one or two topics.

We are planning more strategies besides these activities, including introducing more second-tier brands this year.

The PC market is in a very mature stage in its evolution, ... That is why vendors are expanding their strategies beyond the box, expanding into services and storage. You also see Intel moving into the rapidly growing area of communications chips.

The overall philosophy behind the design approach can be extended to enable one to understand the impact of changes in suppliers' components on the performance of a complex system without revealing details of the components or the system. This will enable suppliers to retain their proprietary design knowledge without revealing each other's intellectual property. Such strategies are critical as products are increasingly designed and produced in a globally distributed manner.

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

We demand that NABI immediately retain an investment bank other than Lehman, or in conjunction with Lehman, to explore strategies to maximize shareholder value.

We work on reading and writing strategies and we teach behind a glass where other teachers watch us. We all have to take a turn teaching behind the glass. The child doesn't know the teachers are watching.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

There are significant building improvements that will need to be made to accommodate the growth at the school. With the use of some creative strategies that can be implemented right away, we could eliminate some construction if we do the study sooner rather than later.

While some dating sites use targeted discounting strategies to improve their conversion rates, we take a different approach, focusing on privacy technologies.

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 closely monitored the evolving market and made every effort to participate in a way that was fair and legal, ... Williams does not have and it never has had strategies to engage in illegal or improper market behavior. In fact, Williams prohibited its traders from selling power outside California for resale into California for the purpose of evading the state's price caps even though we did not conclude that the activity was illegal.

We really don't go into specific legal strategies in public and I think you can understand that.

We know that our ability to effectively communicate, along with our skills in using computers and other information technologies, are very important in our efforts to improve people's health and well being. With these initial investments in four new Centers of Excellence, we hope to identify new tools, approaches, and strategies for managing health records, bringing together disease information from different places, understanding the questions and concerns of patients, and educating people about ways to improve their health. The more we learn about when and how to use health communication and electronic information systems, the better able we'll be to meet the needs of people in the community.

We will continue to move forward in developing strategies that meet the needs of our U.S. Navy partners while causing the least disruption to Virginia Beach property owners. We remain committed to ensuring the decisions we reach in Virginia are based on accurate and objective data. We repeatedly implored the BRAC commissioners to make sure their actions in regard to the former Cecil Field were based on the same level of verifiable information and analysis that they seemingly applied when examining Oceana. I agree with Mayor Peyton that it is unfortunate the BRAC Commission's actions unfairly pitted two communities against each other.

To the extent clients want sub segments of the strategies we provide, we can accommodate that assuming we can make it work economically. We have a variety of things in the pipeline.

You have to come up with strategies -- text messaging, gossiping late at night and photo sharing all work. People change (while I am away) and people have different lives -- they are not going to wait for me.

We've carefully chosen the best instructors for our DTE who are industry leaders. Not only is there technical training for those who do hands-on work at the installation, we're also providing business building sessions to help our resellers plan their growth strategies for 2006 and beyond.

Women will be driving the next big online retail boom. Online retailers would be wise to look at how women shop online, and tailor their strategies accordingly.

We always feel we win in our business when we stay focused on our strategies and our customers. It has always been a competitive business and it will continue to be a competitive business.

Whether working with current buildings or constructing new, the energy strategies have converted to dollars saved, resources saved, and pollutants never produced.

We would welcome a more proactive role from elected officials at the national and state levels in broad-based strategies to address the U.S. health care crisis.

We're just pretty much working on blocking strategies and learning different stuff. We know that as the weeks go on, our tournaments are going to keep getting harder.

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.

With the rise of China, all we should see is opportunity. Canadian businesses, large and small should be doing as you have done, developing and implementing strategies for China. Only by acting now, and with vigor and determination, can we help to ensure that future generations of Canadians will benefit from the opportunities presented by a rapidly changing world, by a rapidly growing China,

Through more than 200 years in private banking, The Bank of New York has gained a collective wisdom that supports high-net-worth individuals in planning, investing and transitioning their wealth. Our high net worth clients will value access to unbiased advisors who help manage their financial strategies and deliver objective solutions that meet their wealth management goals.

Through Growing Up Healthy: Kids and Communities, local and regional partnerships will develop and carry out strategies to achieve the community's vision for healthier housing, learning and neighborhood environments for young children.

Culturally based beliefs about health and appropriate strategies for maintaining health may provide better explanations for ethnic difference in home remedy use.

Each country has already begun to identify a portfolio of actions to improve their energy security, reduce pollution and cut their greenhouse gases. What we are going to do with the partnership is find some alignment of those strategies so we can expand and promote investment in technologies that will help meet those goals.

At this point, there isn't an obvious place to park money, ... A number of strategies that produced good returns in the past are no longer profitable. A lot of the smart money is sitting on the sidelines right now just waiting for the direction to change.

Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas and strategies serve to advance their own interests and expand their donor base.

Disciplined execution of our growth and operating strategies is driving consistent improvement in a range of key metrics, including customer counts, average revenue per customer, total revenue, and churn.

This year has been challenging for McDonald's, ... But I am confident that our strategies are right and we will see significant improvement in 2002, setting the stage for stronger growth in 2003 and beyond.

When I speak to groups of parents of young kids, they mostly want to develop strategies for qualifying for financial aid and the unfortunate part is if they haven't saved anything, they may discover that aid will mostly be in the form of loans.

At that meeting we will talk about communication strategies and ways to get messages out to community and nation about activities taking place on Grounds that promote diversity.

As it now becomes clear, scientifically, legally and practically, Yucca Mountain is not going to become a single repository for nuclear waste, and we need to start thinking about new strategies and new places to deal with this,

The Top-20 plan lays out what the goals are to know when we've achieved top-20 status. More than anything, it's a financial plan. Now what you need is actual strategies to bring those numbers to life.

Transnational criminals are constantly seeking ways to circumvent law and order. And, we must adapt our strategies to prevent them from doing so.

Value investors look for real value in their investments and consistently outperform the market. They essentially follow the same strategies used by Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham.

While weak industry conditions impacted our financial performance in fiscal 2005, we made good progress on the strategies we established at the beginning of the year.

As the pool of highly qualified candidates shrinks, employers are striving to make themselves more attractive to candidates. Strategies include expanding benefits, addressing the work/life balance issue and increasing salaries to attract and retain top talent.

The success of this value-creation investment reflects our company's ability to identify underperforming assets and aggressively create a comprehensive repositioning strategy. Through targeted marketing and leasing campaigns, outstanding on-site property management services and property reinvestment strategies Allegiance was able to consistently outperform local markets.

The strategies that they have put forth are working at this time.

These expansions represent a significant portion of the estimated $21 million investment we intend to make in China over the next three years. One of Tenneco's key growth strategies is to expand in emerging markets and China is our greatest opportunity in this area.

The seminars enabled resellers to understand more closely the features and benefits of the WD range of hard disk drives and learn about the new WD products. At the same time, it allowed WD to better appreciate reseller needs, and work out strategies to effectively address them. We would be organizing more reseller seminars in the future, in various Middle East cities.

When we understand more about the genes and the environmental factors that influence someone's risk, I think you will be better able to predict who is at highest risk and then target your prevention strategies at those high-risk individuals.

We will carry out a number of strategies that will ensure we achieve our goal of giving the film the best opportunity to be considered for awards.

An earthquake won't get smarter or stronger or change locations just because we protected our buildings. The question is, how do our strategies change when their goals and values are not the same as ours? We're talking about some bigger issues.

The search engines have been working on book-copying strategies themselves. This is Amazon showing people it too has a pretty compelling database of book text.

While it's clear that a broad range of online merchants saw a strong season, multi-channel retailers were standouts this year. Many of the nation's leading retail brands flexed their muscle this season, with strategies including faster delivery options, significant site redesigns and effective cross-channel promotions.

Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.

Ultimately worms have the same issues as we do for getting their sperm and egg together, and hopefully that will be useful for improving our understanding of human infertility, giving us different insights into reproductive strategies that nature uses to get the sperm and egg together.

We've had such a good market that a lot of strategies have been shown to work. I don't think you should drive by looking in the rear-view mirror.

We've had to shift strategies from a containment strategy to one that focuses almost exclusively on the protection of people and property, which means that a lot of these fires are going to burn for a substantial period of time.

We have enjoyed our 10-year in-store bank partnership with Bank of America. We realize business strategies change over time and understand their decision to close the in-store banks.

We are off to a solid start in 2006, with measurable progress on all fronts. Revenue is up, net earnings are stronger, acquisitions are being integrated smoothly and costs are under control. Our strategies for long-term growth are gaining momentum.

PSNH is actively exploring strategies to reduce mercury at its power plants.

North Star Destination Strategies rose to the top with their extensive community branding experience, and the Department began working with them in July 2004.

Some sides might have some really good strategies about defending it, so we just don't know what's going to happen, so it's hard to comment until we see it.

While I'm disappointed with our earnings results in the fourth quarter, I'm very pleased with the strength of our revenue performance throughout 2005 and the solid growth momentum that we carry into the current year. As we move into 2006, we are focused on several key priorities: maintaining sales momentum in sandwich crackers and salty snacks, implementing revenue management strategies targeted at enhancing profit margins, integrating the Tom's acquisition and executing on our supply chain restructuring plan.

But I wasn't thinking about winning rounds. I was thinking about chopping him down. I knew even before I got there that I could not allow this to go to points. So we never developed no strategy to win this on points because we knew that would be impossible. I knew if he threw one punch a round and I threw a million I knew I would still lose the fight so we developed strategies to knock him out.

Depending on our legal advice the city will have to come up with new strategies to deal with the challenges faced in this regard.

Once the person knows 'I'm too angry,' then (as a professional) you're trying to help them come up with strategies that will distance them from the angry event.

As long as single parents have good jobs and continue to earn, their investment strategies will be similar to married people,

The mission of Book Business is to reveal strategies for improving book publishing management and processes, cutting costs and reducing time to market for publishing companies of all sizes.

All airlines have been reexamining their IT strategies and expenditures and strategies. US Airways is certainly going to be watched with great interest.

Qwest's strategies to pursue growth and to enhance our profitability are working,

Our third quarter results demonstrated the ongoing strength of our business model. We also delivered on the growth strategies that are enabling us to expand our industry leadership position, including advancements focused on accelerating the adoption of Internet media and the viable business models to support it.

Right now we're still trying to search for that win. It doesn't get any easier. ... It's all in our control. We're the ones playing. All the coaching staff can do is continue to create strategies and game plans for us to go out and execute. We have to play the game.

Russell has been an innovator in customized total-fund overlays that combine multiple strategies in one efficient, powerful and highly integrated package. More fund fiduciaries are considering Russell's total overlay solution to enhance performance, reduce risk, ease administration and implement cutting-edge strategies such as portable alpha.

Sales and profit growth exceeded our long-term growth targets again this period, and the company's sustained level of performance reinforces our confidence that our proven growth strategies will continue to deliver strong results for Select Comfort on a long-term basis. Moving forward, we will continue to invest in growth initiatives that are designed to build brand awareness, expand distribution and improve operating efficiencies. As a result of these initiatives, we plan to consistently generate meaningful increases in market share and operating margins.

Our customers have told us that they want access to high-speed data services. Through expanded deployment strategies and highly successful self-installs, we believe that our 2001 projection is very achievable.

Tech companies are frustrated with equity analysts and their inability to get beyond the quarterly cycles. Many companies feel their growth strategies are not being actively rewarded.

February was a successful month for clearance merchandise and many retailers are relieved to have winter gear out of their stores, ... Retailers appear pleased with their pricing strategies for spring and are encouraged that consumers are heading to the stores in larger numbers.

Engaging employees and holding managers accountable for results is critical to our success and we look forward to bringing these successful strategies to more federal agencies.

Establishing LEA Europe and LEA Asia Pacific enables us to deliver a unique advantage -- best-in-class strategies and processes, faster new service development cycles, improved recruiting and retention and accelerated profitability -- to accounting firms around the world.

The results in Guatemala and Costa Rica were not that critical to me. This one (against Panama) is. This is the one I want to win so we can end the year on a high note and at the same time, give some promising players some opportunities to play and start formulating some strategies for 2006.

There's much more focus on looking at more options and strategies than clients looked at before.

This series is an opportunity to listen to stories and strategies of the global greats of social entrepreneurship -- a powerful new form of public leadership.

This atlas of genomic changes will provide new insights into the biological basis of cancer, which in turn will lead to new tests to detect cancer in its early, most treatable stages; new therapies to target cancer at its most vulnerable points; and, ultimately, new strategies to prevent cancer.

This grant gives us the opportunity to build on the historic young voter turnout in the last presidential election by encouraging the development of effective, replicable strategies for increasing young voter participation while significantly boosting youth registration and turnout in the upcoming mid-term elections.

This is a difficult decision, as it impacts both our employees and GO.com users. However, the Internet environment has continued to shift and change, and therefore our strategies must also change.

This is a market where these strategies can work the best. It's a way that allows investors to actively be in the market.

This is absolutely inexcusable and totally incomprehensible. College management announced their Semester Completion Strategies 12 days ago. It certainly calls into question their competence if, after 12 days of planning, they can't have the colleges up and running on Monday.

A few short years ago, those numbers would have been laughed at as impossible goals. Our agency is constantly examining its strategies and looking at outcomes to determine how we can help the mining industry drive fatality, injury and illness rates down to zero.

A focus on health is one of the key strategies to reduce health-care costs over time. A culture of health and well-being can reduce the trend in health-care costs over time.

Addressing these challenges requires vision and leadership. An appreciation and understanding of the business strategy, the role of IT service management and ICT strategies in line with business objectives, as well as an open exchange of information, are essential in achieving effective and proactive management of the ICT infrastructure.

This is a significant corridor for commuter and freight traffic. We're certain there will be a need for enhanced transit there over the next five years. We need to be assured strategies are in place to meet the growing need as it appears less and less likely there will be a monorail serving this corridor.

In light of how much -- and how bold -- kids are online today, all parents need to be armed with more realistic strategies and guidance. And it is essential that teens hear the stories of other young people who were deceived or had close calls online.

After today's proceedings I feel supremely confident that Michigan is headed in the right direction and is continuing to work and update safety strategies in case we have to face a pandemic. In yesterday's New York Times, Michigan was reported as being one of the top 20 states prepared to manage a catastrophic event. It seems we are on the right track.

In an era of heavy incentives and discounts, Residual Value excellence becomes more difficult to achieve, ... Both the segment and brand winners clearly demonstrate that quality products combined with effective pricing strategies will rise to the top of the charts.

I'm just going to come out and do the same as I did last year. Same strategies and hopefully, it will work again. We'll see.

I'm particularly looking forward to team strategies throughout the season; which drivers they choose for particular sessions, when they use the power boost during races and so on.

I have no objection to promoting abstinence, but where that is not an option anymore, we should promote prevention strategies that work. I think that having it being driven by the grass roots up is the best way to go.