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There is a power, and a danger in mobility. You can increase productivity. You can reduce cycle time. But the danger is the increasing complexity for your business. There is also the security risk.

We'll be better equipped to meet the diverse and changing needs of our U.S. customers - particularly our major accounts which clearly want to go direct - increasing our potential for growth.

We are also moving forward with our plans to lease eight branch sites in Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk, Pinellas and Manatee counties, marking our entrance into Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk counties and increasing our presence in Pinellas and Manatee counties. These eight new locations, which we expect to open in 2006, will bring Coast's branch total to 20 offices in the greater Tampa Bay area. While these new locations will temporarily decrease short- term profitability, they should provide solid contributions to earnings in future periods.

The regime right now with China and India increasing demand and the world's supply of oil not growing -- it's going to be very sensitive for a while to supply and demand, ... The consequences are worldwide.

Women who attend support groups and counseling for a reasonable period of time are likely to gain some better coping skills, learn the signs of abuse, become stronger and feel better about themselves and their decisions, so they are more likely to move into independent living and less likely to return to the battering situation. It's a key to their becoming independent and increasing their self-esteem ... so that they can make decisions for themselves and move forward.

The fact of the matter is, the increasing impact of technology is fueling productivity,

The fact is, space technology can and does fail. And when you start using nuclear materials in increasing numbers, the odds of an accident increase.

The real impact of what we've seen in the first quarter will hit the second-quarter results, from the increasing momentum of the metal price.

The real downside of this hysteria is that people hear rumors about outages in other towns and rush out to gas up, thereby increasing the likelihood of gas lines and outages in their own town.

The real challenge is going to be increasing social spending while at the same time not expanding the budget deficit.