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Wireless network equipment is an incredible value if you look at the numbers of users for each access point.

Windows makes it really easy to pick whatever software you want to use and whatever service you want to use, ... We're really focused on addressing the needs of our customers and developing a platform that all of our partners can build on, and add value to, to provide the greatest customer choice.

Microsoft has been caught for the past three years between value and growth and is trying to find itself. It appears cheap but it's a moderate growth story so it will probably be bound to range in the upper $20s for the rest of this year.

Microsoft has taken a leadership role in the rights management market with Windows RMS, and many customers are turning to their trusted Microsoft solution providers to implement and deploy the RMS platform. Liquid Machines solutions enhance the value of Windows RMS and make it a truly extensible platform that customers can use to consistently protect information across a broad range of applications, business scenarios, and devices. Our partners deliver critical value to RMS customers that require planning and implementation services allowing them to fully benefit from a Liquid Machines and RMS solution.

Mercury's focus on adding value through integrated solutions translates to end-to-end payment processing for Nestle Toll House Cafe by Chip.

Most meteorites have a lot more value than gold. The first moon rocks were selling for $25,000 a gram, but many have been found and the price has fallen.

Most hockey teams can stay out almost indefinitely because they lose less money by not playing than by playing. That's not true for baseball. I think the majority of owners know that the value for them is keeping the gates open.

Most importantly of all, Bruce has built a talented and complete leadership team capable of executing our long-term vision, with a focus on delivering value to our shareholders.

Most insurance companies and agents regularly contact homeowners to ensure that their insurance policy limits keep up with the value of their home so that there will be sufficient funds to rebuild after a hurricane or other catastrophe.

Most investors think this is a good deal and expresses fair value for Chiron. Our best guess is that this deal goes through.

You can add a lot of value with feature IP.

You'll be seeing bigger moves in the consumer electronics space from us coming next year. The digital lifestyle space is actually many high-growth markets rolled into one, from content creation all the way through the value chain to content consumption. There is nothing stopping our x86 processors from entering and gaining share in each of them.

You'll see very shortly a plan to generate a currency that can generate that value for Ford shareholders.

We intend to grow the value of our brand as we evolve the company.

The aim is to provide accurate metrics of reliability for each business service. Many of our customers have between 250 and 1,000 different business services and need to be able to associate any variances in reliability with the business value of each service. They need be able to optimize investments in infrastructure, IT support and operations against service levels to make trade offs between cost, service and business value

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

The 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management list is our annual opportunity to recognize the companies we believe best exemplify the ideals of true knowledge management - the ones whose products and services continue to fundamentally transform the way organizations operate. These companies meet the needs of our readership in solving critical business problems, and they are united by one quality: they listen to their customers. Long gone are the days of developing elegant software in a vacuum and expecting the world to beat a path to your door. Decision makers and users grow more savvy each year, and these companies realize that the key to adding value is staying close to their customers.

The 100 Top Hospital award winners continue to demonstrate significant distinctions in provision of value to their communities, as shown by objective differences in clinical outcomes, patient safety, efficient operations and financial stability. These top 100 hospitals react quicker to challenges than their peers, and they focus on all aspects of care, not just one.

The 11.5 times multiple -- which is two full turns higher than the 9.5 times multiple we paid for the whole of Knight Ridder -- demonstrates that these are strong newspapers with great value to companies whose strategies fit them.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

My big thing is we have no dominant shooters so we have to value every possession. We need to have single digit turnovers and double digit rebounds or we can't compete and again tonight we turned it over too many times.

My broad advice is to concentrate on individual issues as opposed to trying to predict where the market is going. Making market calls is of very little value whatsoever.

My clients are troubled that if this transaction goes through, it would mean the loss of business in Miami, which they value at $150 million.

We get good value out of software because we do due diligence first, but services tend to be significantly more expensive than we expect. Integration of applications is a significant strategic direction that is inhibited by cost.

understands the importance, as well as the consequences, of providing news from all sides of the issue, a core value of the channel.

Understand that while home improvement projects can increase the value and comfort of your home, most projects are not necessary. Remembering that your project may be a 'want' and not a 'need' can help you to enjoy your home sweet remodeled home.

While we listened carefully to the input from the local communities, military value was our top priority.

We are now investing in each of our businesses to achieve substantial earnings growth in the future and create further value for millions of our shareholders.

We can all argue how we value CEOs and if their pay makes sense. But we chronically overvalue CEOs. Until that's addressed, higher pay will continue.

We haven't heard anything yet, but we believe strongly in Pinnacle's value to the Northwest system.

We have nothing more to add. As we have said all along, we remain focused on our plan to win, which is delivering solid results by improving our restaurant experience for customers, ensuring alignment with our franchisees and suppliers and adding value to shareholders.

We have nothing more to add. But as we have said all along we remain focused on executing our 'Plan to Win,' which is delivering solid results by improving our restaurant experience for our customers and insuring alignment with our franchisees and suppliers and adding value to shareholders.

We needed to determine the value of the resource before it was damaged, and what should have been spent to protect it.

We have audited 71 percent of the property on public lands. We look at the value of that production at the lease.

We made a very conscious decision that we weren't going to do giveaways for the sake of doing giveaways. We were only going to give away high quality or high value items.

We made it clear when Carnival made its initial proposal that our response was based on two simple criteria -- value for our shareholders and deliverability,

Mid-size and small companies are already a step behind because they lack the resources needed to build the product value story and to test messaging in their target markets. It also means having a smaller share of voice with their customers.

Microsoft's best marketing for Vista will come from simplicity -- making the value of Vista as easy to understand as possible, so people can look and say Vista is a lot better than the version they have now, Are there too many of them to communicate the value of Vista?

Microsoft wants the operating system and their tools to have all the value so that users don't need to go outside of the family. It drives Microsoft crazy that people spend a ton of money with EMC and Veritas on boring old storage issues.

We were able to come to an agreement with Goldman Sachs on the pre-IPO market. We feel that 9 billion euro is a fair value, not overly exciting, and it's an objective value that we can put before shareholders and give them a benchmark to look at our business.

We were looking for something that was valid and reliable . . . for something that would measure teacher effectiveness that was neutral. This measures student improvement and the value that teachers bring to student improvement.

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which could ultimately add millions of dollars to the value of the property.

While all the sub-functions we closely examined in this study are critical to a sound medical affairs effort, we found that research/clinical operations received the most backing from companies. Clearly the sub- function holds great value to medical affairs.

While building shareholder value is important, we don't find market capitalization a particularly critical measurement. We measure our value by the value our products provide to customers.

Whether it's from Kelley Blue Book or the N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Guide Co., or any other source, you want to be sure that when you present figures to your customer you have some third-party validation to support your trade value that you're giving the customer for their vehicle. And you need that in print.

Those guys now know the value of being vocal. We've had team-building exercises set up some of those things.

We don't see the type of value in the sector that we saw six or seven months ago.

We don't subscribe to the view that breaking up Microsoft increases the value.

We don't take a lot of bad shots. We just value the ball and try to take good shots. If that results in low scoring, then we'll take it.

We're a little reluctant to accept the program at face value.

We continue to add key distributors across Europe so aviation customers keen to use Exxon Elite and our other premium aviation lubricants can do so easily and cost effectively. These two quality distributors are the latest in our growing list of strategic distributors that add value to what we offer customers.

We continue to believe that a negotiated solution is of such value that it is worth pursuing. We urge America to respond.

We continue to believe that OfficeMax should be sold. We are confident that a sale will create more value for shareholders than any alternative strategy.

We continue to believe that this transaction would benefit customers in Texas and southern Oklahoma who would be offered the benefits of Kroger's superior selection, service and value in this aggressively competitive market. We intend to explore our legal alternatives.

We continue to have full faith and confidence in the near and long-term prospects o the company and remain committed to the goal of providing value to all shareholders.

We continue to look at ways to further unleash value from our ownership of Hughes while preserving our strong credit ratings,

We continue to make each of our services even more compelling by adding more features and applications that provide more value to our customers,

While Windsor Fund's emphasis on deep value stocks has been out of favor recently, we believe it is a sound long-term investment strategy,

Whirlpool has to put pressure on the Maytag board to focus on the superior value of its bid.

While we remain focused on expanding the company through value-creating acquisitions in our medical systems, domestic appliances and personal care and in our lighting businesses, we'll continue managing our capital efficiently to create optimum value for our shareholders,

without a doubt the value of the deal will change.

We hope if we take care of our customers by giving them the best value in the marketplace, they will continue to come to us as a primary destination. We don't think they will be disappointed.

We hope that when the summit is over, people will see the value of early childhood education.

We provide our customers with the sweet spot of coffee, where value meets quality.

We put a value on everybody, and we look at a player's ability and what players are going to be doing down the road. The system we use - sooner or later, somebody is going to get their feelings hurt.

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarelyWent to their deaths more proud than this one went.Some nights of apprehension and hot weepingI will confess; but that's permitted me;Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keepingRubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.If I had loved you less or played you slylyI might have held you for a summer more,But at the cost of words I value highly,And no such summer as the one before.Should I outlive this anguish-and men do-I shall have only good to say of you.

While the counter still trades at a discount to our 16.5 times market price-earnings ratio, its current premium over our fair value estimate and strong price appreciation over the past few months suggest that the issue has temporarily outrun its fundamentals, with no further upside in the next 12 months.

Why would we want to have our valuable resources underneath the artillery of North Korea? ... Our high-value assets are now disposed where they would not be under immediate fire. It gives us the operational agility we need.

will attempt to defend their deal not as a takeover of Warner-Lambert but as a strategic merger that is designed to deliver long-term value to shareholders.

We believe there is a place of value for the (traditional) broker. We don't see everything going on to the Internet, just about 20 to 30 percent.

We believe the timing is now right to capture the value of this business, especially in light of industry consolidation and the anticipated improvement in longer-term market conditions,

We believe the transaction and the strategic rationale for this combination are in the best interests of our patients, employees, customers and shareholders -- reflecting the full value of our firm.

We believe this action is necessary to protect the intellectual capital we have worked hard to develop in-house since 1996. Although we have been focused on innovation and building value for our customers, we cannot ignore companies that we believe are infringing our intellectual property.

We believe this merger is in the best interests of all those connected with Lone Star. Our shareholders will receive a substantial premium to the current market value of their stock, and our customers, suppliers and employees will benefit from the combined resources of the two companies.

We have a lot of experience in sports complex sponsorship throughout our footprint, and we see value in those ... it's a good way to enter the market.

Wendy's has become a 'Pandora's Box' of shareholder value. We think this could ultimately result in deeper and quicker cost cuts at the core Wendy's brand.

We are thrilled to be able to double plan resources for our customers. By doubling the disk space and the bandwidth offered with the shared plans, we're giving our customers more value for their money and powerful resources to succeed in their online endeavors.

We are troubled by the continuing decrease of the value of our investments in the company and are pleased that management and the board of directors are considering steps to stem the loss of shareholder value, ... However, as long-term investors, we want to be assured that the options are being considered to promote growth and stability in the long-term, and not simply to produce a short-term boost in the stock price.

We do think it gives some value to the advertiser because people do look for them.

We can wait to see what happens, but perhaps he's bitten off more than he can chew, ... They've used the value of Hughes effectively to benefit other shareholders. I don't think there's any consensus among analysts that GM is forgetting about shareholders and should be taken over by raiders.

We have been taking a very close look at its lines of business and believe there is a clear opportunity to unlock more value by running Sea-Land's three key components as distinct profit centers.

We played pretty well defensively for those first three quarters, and we kind of value that. Once we get a stop, we try to get something good.

We played so hard defensively to fight for that ball and then for us to be so careless and throw it away, we didn't value the ball.

We will see a dilution to shares by 3-to-4 percent this year and next year, ... We will see about $1.50 in dilution to net asset value per share as soon as this deal closes.

We will see a dilution to shares by 3-to-4 percent this year and next year. We will see about $1.50 in dilution to net asset value per share as soon as this deal closes.

You are going to get much better value from x86 processors and the demand for cheaper processors is growing.

We have a good record of accomplishment and are very proud of what we are doing to promote our cultural heritage. When people come in, it's hard for them to let go. They reminisce; look at the value of what we are sharing. We cover a gamut of generations.

We have a great example for the young guys. He placed that much value at one more opportunity.

We had extended periods (in the 1990s) where it almost didn't matter where you priced a home: There just weren't buyers to buy it. At this time -- when you bring a home on the market at a price that represents a good value -- which may well be a number below the seller's initial expectation -- buyers act.

We've made the decision that we're going to win this on the merit. ... We think there is tremendous military value for Ellsworth going forward and we think we can persuade five of the nine commissioners to take Ellsworth off the list,

We've made time savings of about 30% across the board, which has freed up some of my and my partners' time to go and look for other business and concentrate on forthcoming tenders and contracts. Many local authorities are looking at best value propositions, and with this type of technology improving each week we can move forward and, hopefully, offer more for a lower price than our competitors.

We had a lot of quality, substantive conversations that I hope demonstrated to Cliff that he is a core part of this team. But a value we both felt good about was not one we could reach right now.

We really value the type of business that Pacific Sales is today. At this time, we're pretty interested in preserving and learning that model....Our goal would be to eventually expand that format as a free-standing format.

We earn nothing from those rights; they've had no value in the United States.

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 enter 1999 confident in our strength to withstand further volatility and in our ability to build on the strength of the group to deliver further value to shareholders.

We establish the value of buying a product at Starbucks by our uncompromising quality and by building a personal relationship with each customer. Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

We estimate a fair value for the stock in the mid-high $20s.

We estimate Napster's takeover value at $3 to $5 per share, with about half the value coming from the company's cash position.