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Carly was trying to drive revenue growth, and she was bleeding the printer business by using the higher profits in that business to fund unprofitable growth everywhere else. (Hurd) has dialed back the sales growth objectives and focused those units on operating more efficiently.

CEOs of many corporations have begun to get the message that if the federal government continues to cut back on research funding, then this innovation is not going to happen any more, because these companies cannot afford to fund all the basic exploratory research that's needed at the front end.

But the very next day, the Liberal government said they would not fund the strategy even though it was passed by the House,

But the ambulance fund owes the county's general fund $100,000. That's down from $160,000 when I started, but we can't do much until that is paid back.

Bush's budget wants us to declare that we should keep channeling ever more of the nation's wealth to those who are already the most wealthy, and to fund it by taking money from education, the poor, the disabled and from the impoverished elderly. That is the naked meaning of his never-ending tax cuts for the wealthy and his program cuts for the weak.

Bush refuses to fund important country-of-origin labeling provisions for meat and has ignored the need for resources at the FDA and USDA to inspect the agricultural products coming across our borders.

Basically, we put millage into building projects, ... We thought we should build up our capital reserve fund so we can better stand the construction once it gets started.

China's investment demand is based on excessive optimism about the future. India depends on capital inflow to fund its consumption-led growth, like a poorer version of the U.S.

China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China's largest investment funds.

I'm almost expecting the National Enquirer to come out with a mutual fund issue.

I have a healthy concern like in any other election that I've run in before. I started some very serious campaigning and fund raising and have received a lot of endorsements.

I have a lot of concerns about how this fund was operated.

I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, ... Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.

I have a real problem with (solely funding the program) unless the townships kick in some money to help fund it,

I have been loyal to our Republican leaders here in Florida and in our nation's capital - from Jeb Bush to President George Bush. ... And I have been loyal to the Republican Party and my constituents who elected me to work tirelessly for their best interest. Today I am asking you to return that same loyalty to me by helping fund my U.S. Senate campaign.

I have made the judgment that I cannot be elected president, ... All of those things combined to make it difficult for us to have the time and to close the gap in organization and fund raising -- which have led to this difficult decision.

I have made it very clear and I think the other delegations have made it clear that nobody is prepared to fund the light water reactors and that they should rather focus on the elements that are on the table...

I have made it very clear, and I think the other delegations have made it clear, although I'll let them speak for themselves, that nobody is prepared to fund the light water reactor, and they should rather focus on the elements that are on the table and understand that those elements would be very beneficial.

I had unbelievable credibility as a hedge fund manager (at Cramer Berkowitz), but who cares? If I'm obstreperous, funny, I'm bringing people in, not turning them off. My industry has been operating through mystification and confusion. Fie on us. I'm having a darn good time,

If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?

I can't say we will invest in any significant way with this first fund. But hopefully, when we move onto the fund number two, India will be a market that we pursue.

Given Bob's investment style, which is long-term, focused on core holdings, it's really not best for the shareholders in the fund to have a lot of new money washing in and washing out, ... We're trying to get a more stable cash flow.

Given that increasingly large sums are being raised and spent for legal expenses in this state, it appears that it would be in the public interest for the statutes clearly to require disclosure of such fund raising.

get right at the heart of how we fund public education in this state.

FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires.

For years, the Blue Dogs have stressed the need for a rainy day fund in the event of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, ... Unfortunately, this concept, which is adopted by most families and businesses, has eluded many members of Congress and the current administration.

For revenue and earnings growth to occur, we must stay focused on investing behind our pipeline and we must drive our current productivity efforts even harder in order to have the resources to fund those investments.

Fundamentally, the increase in exports and export sales has been a supportive factor. Ideas that ethanol-driven demand for corn will continue to increase at a brisk pace and that U.S. corn acreage may decline modestly in 2006 also provide fundamental support. Dry weather has driven wheat prices higher and has raised concerns about the 2006 growing season for corn and other crops. Speculative demand for corn and other crops has also escalated, as evidenced by the daily tally of the net position of the fund traders.

Fund surveillance should comply with the objective of promoting exchange and financial stability and respect the autonomy as to exchange-rate systems that is granted to all members.

Fundraising opportunities help to fund events such as our banquet and other social events.

Fund players have featured heavily on the bid across the day, taking platinum and silver as well most of the base complex to fresh highs today.

Fund operators are shifting back into metals ahead of the new quarter. Many are now targeting to test gold to $600 soon.

Fund managers rushed to boost their portfolios that will be presented to clients at the end of the quarter.

Fund managers don't want to hand investors high dividends in the year 1999 but if they take them over the course of the year 2000, it doesn't hurt as bad.

Fund managers can at times indiscriminately pull the plug on some markets, and normally sell in baskets.

Fund managers are starting to liquidate their positions in the market. Given this trend, the best time to buy stocks would be during Holy Week.

Fund families are rolling these out all the time. We?d rather see everyone jumping on this bandwagon than launching hot sector funds.

Fund directors should be on the front lines in defense of shareholder interest,

Fund companies are increasingly looking at this as a retention tool. Perhaps its one way to keep your fund manager on board. I don't know if it's a full blown turning point, but companies realize it could be a brain drain so they're taking steps to stay competitive.

Fund companies are having trouble justifying building up Web sites. It's amazing how few fund companies advertise at portals, Morningstar and online business sites.

From time to time, we intend to monetize the value of our more mature assets, and use the proceeds to fund new development and for other corporate purposes. This strategy efficiently recycles our investment capital to our future development program and allows us to retain a substantial ownership stake and establish a more stable income stream of licensing and management fees.

I don't regret it. I'm not doing it for ego or self-gain. I want it for my community, because we've got to find new ways to fund our services. This is our future right there.

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

If a fund has $100 million in assets, it means it's a real player, ... The Neatest Little Guide to Mutual Funds.

If 2005 was the year of commitments, 2006 must be the year of delivery. That's why, when the G8 finance ministers meet in Moscow in only a few days time, I will put on the agenda how we can meet the commitments to fund this specific plan.

I don't think it's going to be a clear shot to double-digit stock fund returns for the rest of the year because financial services stocks still must show up for the party. The Federal Reserve remains the elephant in the room, and there is a building consensus that it will raise rates another quarter-point in May.

Glen has a longstanding involvement with International Investments. He is completely knowledgeable about the markets that he will be working closely with and he understands the importance of our businesses practicing the highest standards. Glen brings a wealth of experience in the investment management and mutual fund business to this role. We are pleased that he has joined the International Investments team.

Global trade, settlements and reserve assets are heavily reliant on a single currency. The fund should give priority to establishing a surveillance and check-balance mechanism of the major reserve currency countries.

If it does not, governments will view the industry as an easy target for taxes to fund non-aviation projects.

If you are going to have a broadly defined business, you need to be in the space? Down the road we will see almost all investors with some allocation to alternatives, be it hedge fund of funds or private equity.

If those funds have a good, long-term record, you can stay within a fund family.

If the fund buying is strong enough, it could lift prices to that target ($600) a lot quicker than we think.

If Spitzer's allegations prove true, it's a clear indication that all four fund firms were willing to put their companies' own profitability ahead of the interests of their fund shareholders.

If it's a guru-driven fund, with a great stock picker - like if David Alger stopped running the Alger Fund -- we would expect the unknown. Whenever there is a manager change, most of the time you don't know what the hell you're going to get.

I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.

He was the greatest fund raiser of all time. And guess what? We actually got more votes than he did in the 2000 presidential election. They're going to have a lot more money than we're going to have...They're for money. We're for votes.

He has been known to frequently donate them to fundraisers. In the last few years, this one-man cottage industry has raised and donated $65,000 to a scholarship fund to a Methodist seminary in Moscow that trains new ministers.

He has long stayed out of energy, and it's been the leading category. That really held the fund back, but more recently energy hasn't been a great place to be.

Hedge Fund returns were impeded by futures managers who made strong energy commodity bets. However, preliminary results indicate emerging market managers maintained their stance as leading strategy contenders, albeit by a small margin. Approximately 60% of hedge fund managers in the Index delivered positive returns, while just over half beat the S&P 500.

Hedge fund investors have started affecting the fund-raising environment for private equity funds.

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

Today is the last day of the first half so I think window dressing by fund managers wanting to make their portfolios look good will keep the index above 16,000.

The purpose of the fund is to revitalize properties and neighborhoods. It's a profit-driven fund, but it has a community benefit agenda, too.

The purpose of the fund is to invest in habit-forming small ticket items which people think they can't live without, ... That turns out to (include) liquor and tobacco. But that's not it. I hate to tell you. The No. 1 habit-forming commodity is toilet paper.

The purpose of the fund is for the development and support of renal dialysis programs that benefit the overall quality of health care at HYMC. The Howard Young Foundation dispersed more than $120,000 from its Dialysis Fund in order to purchase new dialysis machines for the department at Howard Young Medical Center. Also, the Auxiliary of Howard Young Medical Center recently contributed $26,000 toward the purchase of 2 additional new machines, however, with the expansion, more dialysis machines will be needed and the Foundation Dialysis Fund will support this vital program.

We're offering so much for families at this week's Farmers Market. After you buy your locally grown produce, children can participate in crafts and games at the Family Fund's Big Pumpkin Fair. We're very pleased to partner with the Family Fund again for this memorable event.

When he ran for office, he said that he was going to make fundamental changes to the system and yet he is perpetuating the system in an even more exacerbated manner by the amount of fund raising he is doing.

We've framed at least two pieces from each of the artists. A scholarship fund was established to pay for a great deal of them. We wanted to see all the kids get decent frames put together.

We suspect there might have been some public fund buying.

We support making sure the cat fund doesn't run out of money.

We think that no mutual fund has actually met the gold standard yet in terms of aggressively rooting out pay that's not deserved.

Together, HalfthePlanet.com and the Abilities Fund will help entrepreneurs with disabilities through every step of the start-up process.

To fund this for one year is not going to help farmers, and it's not going to help the bay.

To fund the additional capital expenditures related to U.S. initiatives, we expect to moderate share repurchases to approximately $500 million in 2003 as well as reduce global new restaurant openings.

To fund it, he sold stock. He sold shares to get things started, and then he just kept selling them.

To create competition, the distributors - namely the banks - must be allowed to compete over fees and service. The current system does not encourage competition. With the banks getting a blanket annual fee for the customer's inventory of fund units, their interest will be to sell as many units in stock mutual funds as possible and to prevent clients from selling them, even when unbiased advice would reach the opposite conclusion.

What you need for a pension fund is a steady, reliable flow of dollars well off into the future and that's what you get with trees. That's what's magic about them.

Having an expansion of the 9/11 fund or something very similar is precisely what ought to be done, ... Create an administrative remedy, allow a quick payment.

Gold has lagged behind what many analysts had expected or hoped given the prevailing dollar weakness, ... Gold has seen some liquidation, from one fund in particular, and I suspect that is still weighing on the market.

The pace of innovation is accelerating, as three billion consumers enter the global marketplace. We are privileged to invest this fund in these exciting times. Entrepreneurs will make major improvements in health care, including in personalized medicine, medical devices and therapeutics.

There is an element of protesting too much. When you look at it, Berkshire Hathaway is not a million miles away from being a giant hedge fund or private- equity fund itself.

There is an avalanche of evidence that will show that Noe's association with the coin fund was widely known, and making the assertion of concealment is preposterous.

Under our current funding, once we assess companies, exhaust the Catastrophe Reserve Fund and penetrate our layers of reinsurance we would have to tap the state's General Revenue Fund through tax credits.

Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security,

Unless we have an additional source of revenue to offset that, that would reduce the fund balance by approximately that amount every year,

We manage the same fund for mutual fund holders and annuity holders, and we happen to own the shares underlying the annuity instead of the mutual fund. That's why it appears we don't hold shares when you look at the SAI data, but in effect we do -- just through a different vehicle.

We must instead agree as a nation to reassess our long-term goals and fund only those priorities which remain crucial to our people.

He didn't have to ask. I told him (he needs to find) the money to fund projects similar to what you're seeing in Rio Rancho. ... If you truly want to leave no child behind, Mr. President, the magic elixir is to transform public education and engage children into their passions.

He certainly has the right mosaic of experience to be able to manage Fidelity Fund well,

He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.

I would say it's a dueling trend that retail mutual fund companies are starting hedge fund like vehicles to retain that talent. That is a weapon in a fund company's arsenal.

Just limiting contributions leaves untouched one of the core problems, which is the pressure that candidates face when they can never stop fund raising.

Jim was interested in exploring his own opportunities with creating his own fund and we're fully supportive of that.

It also finances our enemies. To fight the terror inflicted by killers, thugs and terrorists around the world who depend on American drug purchases to fund their violence, we must stop paying for our own destruction and the destruction of others.

I think it's good news for investors. Investors already pay a management fee to the advisor to run the fund - it might shock investors to know they are paying, say, another 50 basis points for research.

It is all fund liquidation, probably commodity-index related. This was a commodity flush-out.

It is a constant struggle for most public officials between representing average constituents and taking care of the interest groups and wealthy individuals who fund the campaigns.

I think the market's come to realize that economic growth in the U.S. is not threatened by higher oil and commodity prices. Regional markets also benefited from positive fund flows.

I think the managed accounts business is going to grow faster than the mutual fund industry.

I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win.