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The acquisition is in line with our strategy of acquiring and producing increased amounts of relevant wholly owned imagery.

The acquisition of Arco's Alaskan assets represents a significant step in our strategy of growing our exploration and production business. We gain a substantial position in the two largest fields in North America, immediately form a new production center and become a major merchant supplier of crude oil to the West Coast.

The acquisition of Jungle Labs represents another meaningful step forward in our strategy of becoming a larger and more important supplier of specialty pet products. Jungle Labs has a strong track record of innovative product development and marketing in water and fish care and its line of products in this high growth, high margin niche complements our existing Tetra, Marineland, ASI and Perfecto aquatics product mix nicely. This acquisition will be a positive addition to Spectrum Brands' leading market share position in the global aquatics marketplace.

The acquisition of Rock Financial advances Intuit's Web strategy by giving us the mortgage expertise, technology and marketing resources to truly revolutionize the mortgage process,

Where we have differences right now is over the problem of tactically how to resolve the situation... I believe we will come to the same common strategy again in relation to the Balkans,

Win, lose or draw, this strategy is already on the map for the other side. They're not going to slow down. ... This train has left the station for 2006.

Most of Iraq's leaders recognize that if the US were to pull out precipitously, things could get much worse. All the talk about the US getting out, an exit strategy and so forth, has them worried. It's having an impact.

We just can't afford to lose these schools. . . . They need special attention, and they need it urgently. They are a major part of the national strategy to close the education gap and have long been engines to the black middle class -- producing doctors, teachers, lawyers.

We have only one strategy to follow. Press up on the kids right from the beginning. Successful tennis is played aggressively.

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

The 2001 recession hit us hard, and we've seen slow growth since then. We need a strategy to drive growth.

Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put food and water down so they would have something to eat. The ones boarded up were worse off; no light, mold, mildew and bacteria.

My challenge as chairman of the 2005 BRAC Commission was to ensure that I and the members of the commission understood the role IT played in the transformation strategy that served as the foundation of the Defense Department's base closure and realignment proposals.

We are well aware of our challenges and we have a well-thought-out strategy for improving our North American business.

We aren't going to try and pretend to know where rates are headed, where the market is headed or what stocks will shine. That said, we do believe that the dominant equity strategy has begun to shift, and there are more and better foreign equities to invest in. To have a perfect asset allocation strategy, you need more exposure to foreign stocks.

We can apply the strategy of the company to the data and allow you to get a higher order of understanding of it by rolling it up appropriately against your strategy. It really becomes a complex network of business performance indicators. That is where you break away from just financial numbers.

Metro 7 is an important step in the strategy to fill the gap in our customers' needs.

Microsoft is late to the CRM market with 3.0, and faces significant challenges with their antiquated hosting model, channel strategy for enterprise software, and selling to the business unit, not IT. While they may have success on the low end of the market with 3.0, they will be significantly challenged in appealing to the middle market, and global 2000.

Microsoft is unveiling a major reorganization today to help get Vista out the door. Some of the major changes include the appointing of three new officers to the three major divisions. The Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division will be led by Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin as co-presidents; Jeff Raikes has been named president of the Microsoft Business Division; and Robbie Bach has been named as president of Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division. In addition, the company said Ray Ozzie will expand his role as chief technical officer by assuming responsibility for helping drive its software-based services strategy and execution across all three divisions.

Microsoft only started mentioning intellectual property rights once it was clear it would lose the case two years ago. It's an after-the-facts strategy and I hope the judge will see it for what it is.

Microsoft's behavior, in conjunction with its monopoly in the desktop market, may be viewed as an aggressive strategy to eliminate competition in the Kerberos server market.

Microsoft wants its operating system to be ubiquitous in all devices. It's a strategy they've been mapping out forever. Whatever the future is, that's where they'll be.

While co-teaching may be a valuable strategy for delivering instruction, it is not an acceptable approach to meet the Class Size Amendment.

While Dell may be under pressure on short-term earnings guidance, we believe the company has a more attractive long-term strategy that can generate 25-percent-plus earnings growth.

We're aligning our brand strategy with our platform strategy.

We continue to build out our enterprise sales and services organization to make new customer wins, demonstrate the business benefits of our technology and achieve further deployments. Our strategy to focus on large multinational accounts and work toward large scale deployments is beginning to pay dividends.

We continue to execute our growth strategy laid out five years ago to enhance our core retail business, extend our business into adjacent areas and expand into new markets.

We continue to find Safeway's lifestyle-oriented repositioning strategy sound but somewhat limited. Although it will effectively appeal to the middle 60 percent to 70 percent of the market, it is less competitive at the opposite ends of the demographic spectrum.

We continue to focus like a laser on executing our strategy of moving beyond the box, and it paid off with a record quarter in what's typically the industry's slowest period. Non-PC income is now well over 10 percent, which is where we said we'd be by year-end.

We continue to implement our strategy of increased focus on merchandising, better use of technology through our retail information system, and distribution efficiencies.

While we would have liked to start off the year at a higher level, we are in an intensely competitive market and have developed a strategy for all three brands to regain their momentum quickly,

Without a doubt, we faced our share of challenges in 2005, but we've also seen strong indicators that show our strategy is working. We're optimistic because we have the right strategy and the right people coming together.

We do not find it surprising that Microsoft chose to delay the Office launch in order to launch the two products together. We think this strategy is appropriate as a way to create the maximum initial demand for both products, rather than trying to split marketing resources between two big launches separated by only a couple of months.

We don't disclose the strategy we use when buying or selling stocks when they're added to or taken out of the index.

We don't discuss our ad strategy in advance, You got what you got.

We hope our clients walk away from this event with a better understanding of how Harland Financial Solutions fits into their business strategy and fully realizing our commitment to improving financial institution performance. We are extremely pleased with the exceptional turnout and remarkable success of this year's conference.

We hope that we can come talk to them and perhaps come to a strategy we can all agree on for flights next year.

Whoever wins will be able to roll out a used game strategy throughout their entire business immediately,

We believe this is all continuing evidence that our strategy and plans are sound and that Gateway is on the right track to achieve our long-term goals,

When you recruit high-profile kids, they usually don't make their decision until toward the end. Four losing seasons out of five might have caused (the Penn State coaches) to rethink their strategy slightly. That may have worked a couple times but overall, it wasn't the best strategy.

We are thrilled to forge this new partnership. This new agreement is consistent with our strategy to partner with brands that are leaders in their respective category, and will further our goal to create innovative and powerful platforms that will further engage consumers at both MLB ballparks and Holiday Inn hotels across the country.

We have a game plan. We have an anticipation based on all our research, all our conversations with the teams of how the game may be played out and we develop our game plan and strategy based on that.

We had great success in 2002 staging our operations in one location (Seoul) and traveling into our venues for games and we feel that strategy will work for us again in 2006.

We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately now it is over for us.

We really try to use that as a recruiting strategy that hopefully will help us in landing some of those top guys.

We emphasize a personal touch. We are a trusted extension of our customers. That means we don't take referral fees from vendors. We pass along any discounts we can get to our clients. That strategy provides value to our target market.

We enthusiastically support Nintendo's next console because we believe their approach of continual innovation is very much in line with our own strategy of creating unique and innovative games for the next generation of hardware.

We don't have a complete strategy today. We're putting the pieces in place and working with third-party companies,

We really need to understand what's happened and what steps have been taken to rectify problems. In one of those incidents where an outage has occurred, there really needs to be a formal communications strategy put in place. We really need to be kept informed.

That's what a good team does, they make their free throws down the stretch and they did that. That's a strategy you use when your down at the end and you hope and pray they miss their foul shots and they didn't. That's what good teams do, they make them.

That was an effective strategy to get through the primary. But in the general election, he'll have to face Lampson and Steve Stockman, as well as the press, both local and national.

That was our strategy against him, to play over and in. I was trying to guard against a hit in front of me, too. I didn't think he could hit it over my head.

That was pour strategy from the get-go. We knew we had an inside advantage and we wanted to get our inside game going.

That was big. That really gave us a cushion. If you have just a one-run game, it changes the whole game. It changes the strategy for both teams.

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

That was a very tough race. The timing of the safety car period worked to our advantage early on and we were in good shape. We were quick in the conditions, everything was going well and the strategy was well defined. Then we just decided to go onto dry tyres too early. It was a very close decision, but we took it together and we got it wrong.

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

There are natural synergies to be gained by more closely aligning our corporate and technology strategy work. I believe combining the two roles will help to drive our strategies forward and effectively meet the needs of our customers.

What we need is some clarity as to the direction of the business, and what the management commitments are in respect to company strategy and the financial performance attached to that.

What we really need is a broad approach that looks at every strategy that makes sense.

We did really well to stay on the lead lap. Our great pit strategy helped.

hindsight is not a strategy.

We want the drivers, the crews and the strategy to decide a race, not some little innovative deal. We want the cars to be as equal as can be and let the best teams win. That has served the sport pretty well to date.

The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.

This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.

This quarter's results reflect strong broad-based gains across all three of our growth platforms -- domestic banking, Scotia Capital and international banking -- continuing the success of our strategy of diversifying geographically across business lines.

This quarter's results reflect the success of our ongoing strategy to be a services-driven company. The primary driver continued to be DirecTV, where we added over half a million new subscribers worldwide, including 405,000 here in the United States.

This really appeals to a fashion-forward consumer. Our strategy is to become more relevant to customers who are already in the store across more categories.

We have appointed a global company to work out the branding and positioning strategy for TCS in the global market. Their report is expected in a matter of weeks and the roll out of the strategy would begin next fiscal.

We are targeting larger vehicles initially in our hybrid strategy because that's where we can get the greatest impact, focusing on vehicles that consume the largest amount of fuel.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

All strategy depends on competition.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

We've said in the past that we don't believe it's a winning strategy for GM and we see no reason to change this position today.

The profit growth in the first half demonstrates that our strategy is delivering strongly.

Today's Borland news is indicative that Serena's Change Governance strategy is the right one and validates what we see as critical in addressing changing customer needs.

The question is, what kind of acquisition can they make? The company has been extremely tight-lipped as to what their long term strategy is.

This would also be consistent with a strategy designed to run up high vote totals in New York in areas of the state where the right will try to tell people that she cannot perform well.

Upon entering the final quarter of our fiscal year 2006, we remain encouraged by the strength of our operations, particularly as it relates to our ongoing efforts to develop a culture of cost efficiency throughout the Company. As we consider attempting to leverage our managed care expertise in and around the Southeastern United States, we remain committed to executing on a strategy of disciplined, opportunistic growth, guided by the mandate to build value for our shareholders.

Volunteers really are the heart and soul of our communities, but many potential volunteers think that opportunities to become involved are not open to them, or that red tape is standing in their way. This strategy is all about removing barriers, so that anyone who wants to volunteer can feel empowered to take part.

This strategy could be successful in markets that are multi-cultural with assimilated Hispanic populations, such as California, Florida and Texas,

This strategy is an important component of the overall anti-terror strategy. What I've witnessed is very, very disturbing.

This strategy makes a lot of sense for us. There's a golden opportunity for us in DVD.

This strategy of integrated innovation has just caused the whole company to go into gridlock,

Toy retailers and manufacturers are trying a different strategy so that they don't keep coming back to the same places. In some instances, it's a strategic decision. Toymakers need to expand their options in order to grow their market share. It's also a way out if Wal-Mart rejects their products.

Time Warner is pulling out the heavy guns, there's no doubt they are taking this seriously. This counter-point situation is quite similar to a political campaign, where both sides have a war room. One side is lining out a strategy and the other is responding.

The pro-life community is divided on what the best strategy is.

We're looking as part of our strategy for the long-term sustainability of the centers at other opportunities to raise funds.

To me, the whole strategy is how to communicate information to a group of people. People tune out if you don't hold their attention.

We adopt this strategy now because there's an urgency to this debate. Over time, the space of free expression has shrunk.

We're especially pleased that our vendors and suppliers are also investing in our business. It demonstrates that they believe in our strategy and have confidence in our continued success.

We still have to improve our conditioning, strategy and mentality. The improvement really will not stop until the end of the year.

This national alliance with Spot Runner is another example of our strategy to equip our real estate brand affiliates and our company-owned brokerage operations with the latest in technology and marketing tools that help set them apart from the competition.

We are confident that these decisions are right for Mervyn?s future growth and success, and are consistent with the strategy that we announced in September 2005.

We recognized there were tens of millions of fans of the book ... and therefore we followed a strategy to make a movie that would be true to the book.

We are looking for just a general manager, ... He will set the strategy and the tone. We are just hiring one person.

We are planning to developing a strategy which will give us 20 wickets in a match as in the last four encounters we were unable to do so for a victory.