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We view the additional advertising expense during the quarter as an important investment in building the Circuit City brand. Since our retail stores team held labor expense relatively flat on a dollar basis, we were able to gain significant leverage on our higher level of sales as we continued work to optimize the labor model in our stores." ()

We consider the European market to be a key element in our global strategy. Europe will be next after Japan to implement UMTS and will provide an opportunity for us to leverage our technology and experience.

We consider the European market to be a key element in our global strategy, ... Europe will be next after Japan to implement UMTS and will provide an opportunity for us to leverage our technology and experience.

We do have an advantage in that we have a very unique skill set. They could not easily come in and replace us, so it gives us more leverage than a lot of workers.

We will give Ping An our full support in boosting insurance business, but we haven't got any detailed plans for the moment. The bank can leverage its wide network of branches for the insurance business.

We will develop brochures and purchase radio air time to promote the new program. We would also like to leverage that money with some support from the automotive industry.

We would certainly favor any disposal of Virgin Blue. They're still not getting many benefits because the oil price is high and the labor market's still restricting any real leverage of the business model.

We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.

We think this company more than most would be leveraged to an improvement in market conditions and lower rates. Market activity comes back this company has a lot of operating leverage and it should show through on the bottom line.

We believe it's a very promising way to leverage the research and development facilities that are located in Oregon and that can work on these projects.

(To) reignite growth, we have structured our operations into three independent businesses that leverage our core strengths while providing customers with the products they want and need,

With approval to move forward with the Nevada power plant and the development of our new mines in Nevada and Ghana, we are well positioned to leverage gold price exposure for our shareholders.

This will certainly give him more leverage and credibility. It will be much harder to refuse to listen.

The partnerships formed through this collaborative will enable us to leverage resources to reduce diesel emissions. We will be able to share technology and pool finances for greater reductions than are possible through individual efforts.

Toby's intimate knowledge of online retailing will be a tremendous asset as we leverage our growing online businesses to serve our customers and provide a seamless and integrated shopping experience with our stores,

With the acquisition of Pacific Trail, we continue to strengthen our portfolio of authentic, outdoor brands. We are particularly enthusiastic about the opportunity to leverage our design and capital strengths to expand the growth opportunities for Pacific Trail products in distribution channels that Columbia has not yet developed.

We're talking to many countries about using their leverage with Iran.

Transitioning the data center to a more dynamic virtual model is essential to reducing the complexity and improving the responsiveness of today's IT organization. By supporting the Sun Fire x64 servers, we enable Sun users, for the first time, to leverage the full power of a dynamic data center infrastructure and the dramatic gains it offers in agility, performance and operating expense.

Turning Technologies has been very successful in forming alliances with innovative leaders in each of our targeted markets. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill is a prime example, with its longstanding commitment to student achievement and its ability to leverage its authoritative and engaging content through technology. For these reasons, we are proud to work with Glencoe.

You can leverage the best of each application pretty easily. That creates a strong CRM strategy that would give a small business a good start.

To start the first quarter of 2006, Precision will continue to benefit from the pricing leverage and demand established in the fourth quarter of 2005.

We already have a strong denim business in Asia and Europe, and with direct ownership of the Polo Jeans business in the United States we will continue to invest in design and infrastructure to leverage our global jeans and denim capabilities.

The opportunity to work together and leverage our combined community assets creates a very appealing package for meeting planners.

The other is that maybe they are going to be pawns for some leverage in political negotiations. I still have hope that the Taliban have kept them safe for over 100 days now and they will continue to do so,

There is speculation that Texaco would be the next takeover target, but on fundamentals, Texaco is a very cheap stock, very high leverage to both oil prices and gas prices and both moving higher,

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,

We got after it good today. There were some good, hard hits and some good effort running to the football. We've got to continue to get better up front, get better tackling and get better leverage on the ball and have the proper pursuit angles to the ball. We don't understand that yet, but we're getting there.

We lose a little bit of leverage now. People realize he doesn't quite fit for us. It ties our hands a little bit.

We help companies leverage all of their communications and expenditures in their communications behind simple, focused, clear, compelling messages.

We expect that Del Monte will apply its free cash flow to debt reduction over the intermediate term to improve credit measures to those more commensurate with the current rating. The rating could be lowered if Del Monte is unable to reduce leverage as planned.

We expect prices to continue to decline. Leverage helps on the way up and it hurts on the day down. Boston Scientific recognizes it and that's why they want Guidant.

We don't think of this as cable operators pushing a cell phone service. We want to leverage what Sprint has outside the home and create services and features so that consumers can take whatever media they have with them.

We challenge our companies to leverage their global leadership by developing and implementing a set of meaningful best practices.

We think it is unlikely that these changes will modify purchasing and demand characteristics of medical devices. Hospitals have traditionally had little leverage in reducing device costs.

We saw this as an opportunity to explore a passion we had and leverage some of the skills we had acquired at our day job. One day we were thinking about how we could teach people to play and become better ourselves.

We are very pleased that Mary has joined Interactive Data. By increasing Interactive Data's brand awareness throughout the financial community, we believe Mary will help us fortify our leadership position in the back office, while we continue to deepen relationships with clients and expand our business in the front and middle offices. The addition of Mary to Interactive Data strengthens our executive management team, and will help us better leverage the resources across our businesses to achieve our short- and long-term growth objectives.

We are offering service providers around the world the power to deploy instant group communications, fostering a community of music sharing subscribers that will boost ARPU and loyalty. Operators can generate more voice, data and mobile music sales and increase the uptake of their offerings within the youth market. For the subscriber, mobile Music Sharing finally enables sharing of mobile music with peers, something that has been missing from current mobile phone applications. This exciting application is another example of how we leverage SIP for service creation to help service providers immediately monetize IMS networks.

We are going to focus even more attention on the high-growth markets where we can gain additional leverage from the company's overall branding efforts. We plan to fuel significant new growth in our retail mortgage operations by re-directing resources to our most productive and profitable activities.

Both agencies will leverage their expertise and synergize activities involving agricultural- and energy-related plants and microbes. We will enhance coordination of proposed sequencing projects through the Biological and Environmental Research Microbial Sequencing Program or the Joint Genome Institute's Community Sequencing Program.

Even though revenue is not growing as fast as profits, companies have been able to leverage what they have. Companies have been able to control costs and increase productivity.

Either way we lose. So we might as well take the strike and attempt to apply some leverage to Northwest and convince them that they really can't do it without us.

Bill is an innovative, cost-focused technology leader. He's proven that he can leverage technology to effectively balance cost control within demanding, high-profile customer service organizations. His talents will be essential as we build Virgin America with our customers in mind each step the way.

Everybody that is covering, once they get behind the blocker, then they lose leverage on the guys that they're trying to block. The penalties aren't when they're in front of them. The penalties are when they're behind them or they're on the side of them.

As the defender, if I have outside leverage on you and then I get beat outside, then that's really a problem.

At that point, the Brussels bureaucrats decided to perpetuate the FSC/ETI dispute in an ill-conceived effort to gain some sort of leverage in the civil aircraft dispute. Their blatant linkage of WTO disputes serves as a dangerous precedent,

At the end of the day, physical asset acquisition is going to give banks more leverage over their trading positions.

At these prices right now, people are saying the Fed is going to have to do more to bail out the system for investors to take on leverage again.

Digital publishing technology is opening new doors to new authors, ... The Xerox Aspiring Authors program recognizes the people who conceive the ideas, create the stories, drive the new business models, and leverage the new technology that is creating a sea change in digital publishing.

Dirk combines great leadership skills and a results orientation with the international experience that is required for this position. His depth of knowledge will serve him well as we continue to strengthen our European operations and further leverage our leading position in the marketplace.

enact a housing program that gives families and individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina the leverage to secure a long-term residence in their home state of Louisiana, or the location of their choice.

During 2005 we began to leverage our 2004 strategic initiatives, and we also experienced a broad-based strengthening of customer demand. Our fourth quarter results reflect solid unit growth in strategic product areas, a richer product mix, a firmer pricing environment, and enhanced operating leverage in our newer factories.

There's no way that I can sit across the table from somebody whose main bargaining leverage is that he isn't complying with the existing agreement. That has to be cleared up first.

I started thinking about what I could build in (Austin) that would make it special. We set out with a strategy to leverage the Austin vibe with music and sports and do things that were fun and cool for the city.

It would give the DNR another pot of money to use as leverage as sportsmen in Indiana become more and more dependent on public land for hunting and fishing opportunities.

The way Apple is approaching it is very smart. They're able to leverage the popularity of their players and experiment with non-music video content.

These are workers who have the weakest bargaining leverage and are most likely to be exploited, particularly in a period where you have a weak labor demand and a large labor supply.

These are the sort of numbers that should give extra leverage to the ECB (European Central Bank) to keep pressing rates higher, but we still believe the benign inflation picture will force them to adopt a softly, softly approach to tightening this year.

The rising influence of celebrities and the focus on entertaining among the Generation X set is a positive trend for the industry. There's plenty of opportunity ahead for manufacturers and retailers who recognize and leverage today's trends in entertaining.

The sad fact is we don't necessarily have much leverage to get China to change their exchange rate or their trade policies.

It was the only way the central authorities could assert leverage over the vested interests within the provinces and state-owned industries.

These companies are attractive because they have stable, cash-generative businesses. Interest rates are low and private equity has lots of money. They can leverage debt against these cash flows.

These bids have not been driven by an overarching vision or an attempt to foster innovation in the industry. They have been largely driven by attempts to leverage the cash flow of European telecom operators.

The single largest area where organizations can help improve their productivity is in how their employees leverage information systems to work together. In this new world of work that includes rapid change, IT departments need to ensure they are providing the collaborative infrastructure that employees are demanding.

These new distribution agreements and markets prepare us to significantly expand our reach and sales. Our goal, in addition to national chain store accounts, is to secure distribution in most states this year to enable the Company to leverage its strategic promotion plans including anticipated product integration into Mark Burnett's hit reality television shows such as The Apprentice.

The strip-intercropping and controlled traffic patterns leverage the guidance system investment even further than it would normally. Auto-steer is more efficient this way.

The shrinkage of profitability is going to force the consolidation or cessation of services that live on the profitability of other services. You never see these limited-service hospitals start without the leverage of the physician-ownership piece.

The threat level for this vulnerability may be dramatically increased if more automated methods of distribution are found to be successful, such as e-mail or IM or file shares. The impact of attacks may also increase, with more sinister codes being installed as new hackers attempt to leverage the vulnerability to their advantage.

Thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Moore and Vital Ground, Montana will leverage the value of their easement to provide about $600,000 in federal funds that we will use to conserve other important forestlands in the Swan Valley. This project will add another 180 acres to a program that has helped conserve wildlife habitat and working forests on nearly 155,000 acres in Montana in the last five years.

Sometimes our only leverage is custody. The general public is not aware of the drug problem right now.

Right now, the primary driver of demand in the software sector as a whole is clearly that everybody's trying to build out an e-business infrastructure and to leverage the Internet as a basis for doing business. Today, we see a lot of momentum and strength in the companies providing the core building blocks from a technology perspective in supporting this e-business infrastructure.

Schering-Plough needs another late-stage product or recent launch to maximize the operating leverage of the franchise.

Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.

real CEO, an executive officer. We want him to start to leverage outside more, we want him to get into his networks he has. ... He is still in charge.

Rapidly evolving and newly emerging technologies have forever changed the ways GM shares information and conducts business in the automotive retailing industry. We want to leverage the capabilities of these IT suppliers to help GM strengthen its relationship with its retail dealers and, in turn, provide the dealers with the tools that deliver greater flexibility to facilitate vehicle orders, manage vehicle and service parts inventories and, above all, sell GM cars and trucks.

Print providers want to leverage business opportunities and maximize their investment in digital technology by printing a wide range of transactional, on-demand, and publishing applications, including those requiring MICR. Typically, these applications are associated with specific market segments and equipment, but with this system, a variety of work is possible on a single digital continuous-feed device.

Profit Technologies is committed to providing financial institutions across the country with responsive, experienced client managers. Leigh has a passion for consulting and problem-solving with banking clients. Her background with First Data, one of the largest payment and financial services vendors in the country, will provide our clients with advice and knowledge they can leverage in managing their bank operations to maximize earnings.

Private equity firms still have huge funds to invest. The boom will keep going and they will do bigger and bigger deals until the leverage market has a correction.

Our devices deliver the only viable office-wide search and discovery tools because they include complete search security, auto-discovery and privacy. The Enterprise Series Devices will enhance our standard offering by delivering the power of clustering capabilities that large firms need to really leverage office-wide, private and discovery search.

Our customers are dramatically impacting their businesses through supplier and customer data management. In general, the marketplace is learning to leverage data more effectively. The results can be translated directly into savings, lower risks, improved revenue and profitability -- all the result of better business decisions.

Our current thinking is around our IT distribution channel and direct. However, that's not to say we're ruling out deep partnerships with operators, which are key to making these products work, and we may collaborate on innovative approaches that leverage our respective strengths.

Our experience suggests if we should again attempt to bring down the government, Mr. Layton would no doubt see our attempt as potential leverage in his negotiations with the Liberals as he has done on other occasions,

Of course, we may look at rule breakers more frequently. If people are constantly late or going over the limit, we don't want to give them that much leverage to overextend themselves.

The one on the screen which was the biggest hit of the year so far. It showed the guys that if you get the right leverage and do the right thing, you can have a lot of fun out there. He's earned the right to start this week.

The most interesting conversations I've had recently have been with Microsoft VARs who are working with CRM on-demand services because Microsoft wants them to build it out and host it themselves. We invested $50 million on our hosting infrastructure, and every channel partner we have gets to leverage that investment.

Delta is fragile ... and it is not a good time to begin a consolidation discussion. The only time to do that is when you have leverage and strength. So that may be somewhere out in the future but that's not now.

Dell has had a very focused strategy: Don't spend a lot on research and development, leverage the work of others, and deliver cookie-cutter servers and desktops cheaply. That lined up well with the market when saving money was in. But IT managers have to consider more than price now in making buying decisions.

Companies around the world have purchased more than US $40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years. This has generated significant volumes of data in support of the operational processes they automate. By investing in BI, companies can further leverage their enterprise application investments and turn the torrent of data into meaningful insight to better measure performance, respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities and comply with an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Companies around the world have purchased more than $40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years. This has generated significant volumes of data in support of the operational processes they automate. By investing in BI, companies can further leverage their enterprise application investments and turn the torrent of data into meaningful insight to better measure performance, respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities and comply with an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Companies today must leverage the Web as a means of staying competitive, innovative, and in-touch with their customers. Leading companies like Oracle, Scion, and Harris Publications have used Studio 8 with great success, creating some outstanding content and applications that put them ahead of the competition.

Any time a country threatens to cut off oil supplies, the people in New York say, 'Golly, that'll happen,' and the price of oil goes up. They have a little leverage with their oil production. But if you cut off oil exports, you cut off your foreign exchange earnings.

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

As far as technological innovation they are ahead of the Bells. Whether they can leverage the technology to put them on an even position with the Bells -- it's possible but not probable.

As healthcare continues to lead as a topic of national concern and debate, Microsoft is committed to working with individuals, organizations and government drivers to leverage the role that technology can play in achieving healthcare transformation. With so much truly innovative work being done with our technology throughout the healthcare system, these awards are a way for us to showcase some of the leaders driving remarkable results in efficiency and patient care -- results that we think are capable of inspiring broader change across the industry.

As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world.

A single integrated voice platform with MPLS enables customers to leverage the true benefits of globalization, avoiding the complexities and overheads of a patch-worked networking environment. The investment also allows BT to easily integrate all of its global networks to achieve improved cost control and customer integration to convergence.

You might have a slight edge in terms of leverage if you've had some past success, but I don't think that really goes very far.

This is relatively easy to exploit. It takes some degree of social engineering -- the attacker would have to draw people to a malicious Web site -- but after that, there's no further intervention required. An attacker could leverage this to write to a file on the hard drive. And once you can write to a person's machine, you have full control.

The upgrade reflects the company's reduction of parent level leverage and resulting improved parent-level financial metrics.

This contract could be a watershed event within the telecommunications industry because a major union has used its existing leverage to break into a new area. This isn't simply any company. It's the largest telecommunications employer. On one level it's potentially a watershed event because the union could gain a toehold in the most promising area of telecommunications.

This consolidation is an opportunity for Home Depot to better leverage operating efficiencies as we continue to grow our business,