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We had a great run and I think it's time for a little pause as we reflect.

We just thought it was prudent to pause a bit, see what the market will do and then the government can come in behind and fill in the gaps if there are any.

We might see a little pause for assessment on stocks next week ahead of the jobs report. From now on, stocks will rise only if investors continue to believe, just like the Fed, that the economy is solid and may absorb higher rates.

We had such a big run-up in the last couple of weeks that the market is going to want to consolidate and pause to figure out what happens next.

We will not have champagne, but we will try to make sure people can at least take a moment to pause while we enter the new millennium. Everybody will be working hard to see how the country is making the transition.

We saw the market take a pause for breath in February, but Brazil remains the star of the emerging markets and, as long as the international outlook remains positive, stocks should rise.

You get the impression traders are putting an awful lot of weight on the Fed Chairman stating there could be a pause but that this may not be the end of rate increases. We had conflicting economic data and that leaves traders with nowhere to go but the trend.

We think the bank has left the door open for a pause in October, but a rate hike would follow in December. That would take the overnight rate to three per cent by year's end.

We did see what we think was a bit of a pause from some customers associated with the Intel transition.

Another interest rate hike in March is a 'done deal' among market participants and a pause is likely to come after that in May.

Essentially, he's saying that they may pause around 5 percent after the May meeting.

Fed officials have given no indication that they will pause at this meeting. But they may indicate in the statement that they are preparing to pause at the November meeting.

Everything is on pause waiting for these meetings. If nothing comes out of them, that can fan the flames of those in Congress who want to take matters into their own hands.

The results should give pause to anyone who's concerned about the nation's hearing health.

There's now a possibility of a pause whereas last week I would have described the thought as lunacy. But this does not necessarily portend a pause, ... The Fed will be busy in the next two weeks to come up with as much hard information as to the size and duration of the hurricane effect.

These comments have reduced expectations that we will see any hint of a pause in tightening in Greenspan's testimony on Wednesday.

The significant increase in the leading indicators during the last six months, tempered only by the financially related pause in February, points to forward momentum in this expansion.

The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

I visualized the reactions of children listening. Stunned silence here! So hold the pause for two, three, four. This line is a laugh, more than a giggle, so pause, two, three or their chuckles will drown the next line. I'm lucky to have forty years experience of stage comedy to back me up.

sort of hit the pause button on that.

Some well-known commentators on Fed policy have come out and said that the Fed has finished, the Fed is on pause or the Fed should take a pause,

Rapid economic growth in the first quarter will not deter (the Fed) from their intended pause in tightening policy after another hike in the May meeting.

Pronounce your words clearly and don't trail off at the end of a sentence. You want to make sure you are heard and understood. Additionally, pause to give the person on the other end of the line a chance to digest what you are saying and to participate in the conversation.

Probably the success of Audi and Mercedes with small offerings has given them pause for thought.

Our thought process is that this is truly the pause that refreshes. We expect to see improvement in the spring, ... Inventories are a bit higher than we'd like, but that doesn't mean we're treating it as a crisis.

After looking at the employment numbers, there is no doubt in my mind that the measured language remains. Knowing what we know now, there's no pause in 2005.

Definitely some preannouncements make you pause and wonder what's going on, ... Even though these are unique events, a lot of surveys show tech spending is just ok, not great.

A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name

As a result, I voted to pause in the removal of policy accommodation until more was known.

A single-digit percentage gain looks more likely this year. We had a great '03, a great '04 and a great '05. I think we're due for a pause at some point.

You might see the stock pause temporarily. For the longer term, we're still very bullish but in the very short term it wouldn't be a surprise to see the stock stabilize or pull back.

You might see the stock pause temporarily, ... For the longer term, we're still very bullish but in the very short term it wouldn't be a surprise to see the stock stabilize or pull back.

This condition will last through the New Year and has given the technical picture a decidedly negative bias. Any bargain hunters have certainly been given pause by yesterday's action, although the low volume probably exacerbated the downdraft.

This certainly gives us pause to sit back and look at the situation.

This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

This is a Fed that has demonstrated excellent crisis management skills. But by the time we come to November, the Fed should be able to act with a greater degree of confidence. A pause in November would mean a severe downgrade in the prospects for the economy while tightening in November would show that the effects of Hurricane Katrina were probably temporary.

They've given us a lot to pause and look at the strong role they've played in the community. They have been good corporate citizens all the way back to our history as a region.

A lot of the focus is on whether the Fed will pause or continue with their measured pace of raising rates.

Al McGuire's locker room was next to ours. Ray would be yelling, he'd pause for a second and then you'd hear Al yelling. Al would pause for a second, and you'd hear Ray yelling. It was great.

Al McGuire 's locker room was next to ours. Ray would be yelling, he'd pause for a second and then you'd hear Al yelling. Al would pause for a second, and you'd hear Ray yelling. It was great.

Al Maguire's locker room was next to ours. Ray would be yelling, he'd pause for a second and then you'd hear Al yelling. Al would pause for a second, and you'd hear Ray yelling. It was great.

There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.

The report is certainly encouraging. It says there's no urgency to panic about inflation. But that's not the same as saying there's justification for a pause. This is all pre-Katrina. There's enough pipeline pressures out there to say that a pause is not a slam dunk.

This is a view of the economy as we knew it; the world has changed a bit (since then). It's highly likely the Fed will pause for a while.

There's a point at which the Fed has to indicate that it has to pause and look around for a while, and that could come in these minutes, or the next ones.

There's a pause today, but the bulls still have the upper hand. The economic releases continue to support the case for strong economic growth through 2004 and a continued recovery in the labor market. Yet there are still plenty of skeptical people out there, suggesting the market could continue to build on the gains.

There's always the possibility that, if there's sufficient uncertainty that we may choose to pause simply to gain more information, to learn better what the true risks are and how the economy's actually evolving.

As we anticipated, this pause was even more evident in the March quarter. Our sales teams were not discouraged from telling customers to wait for Intel-based Macs if that was the best thing for the customer.

As you know it's been a challenge in the last year because of the pause with respect to investment and the anticipation of those 3G licenses.

Absolutely. When you look at a natural disaster that would cause the kind of destruction that's happened in Lake Charles, everyone should pause and take a look at why we do the things we do. The whole reason that gaming was brought into Louisiana was to promote economic development.

It is rather encouraging that the Fed is pointing toward a pause after the May hike. A lot of us were getting concerned that the hikes would continue into June and August. And one of the problems is that what the Fed does now affects the economy a year from now.

It might give them pause to think they might be sued and hauled into court.

It might give some companies pause about the potential power that exists there. It does show you a market out there.

I tried to set a screen on him. He knocked the wind out of me. His butt hit me in my stomach. Luckily there was a short pause in the game, the shot clock wasn't working or something. So I somehow managed to get my breath back.

It raises the probability that the Fed will not pause this year. The Fed may play it safe and remain in play in 2006.

It's less likely that the Fed will pause in its tightening. A neutral rate is certainly at least 4 percent and probably a little higher. That's where we're headed.

It's a lot like if you were to buy a new house and you're moving in ... except in this case the former owners are still there and they're still living in it, their closets are all full and they're not going to clean it up. It never occurred to me how difficult that would be to move in to somebody's house with all their stuff in it and then pick up without a pause in the normal day-to-day operations.

It's pretty funny how quickly sentiment can swing, but I think it's too soon for the Fed to pause (in raising rates). This morning's number keeps the Fed on track continuing 25 basis points (quarter-point) hikes.

The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

The November minutes were taken as a sign of an impending pause and I don't think the Fed wants to give that message. If the economy is still growing fast, they may have to raise rates above 5 percent.

Eighteen months tops, everybody's gone. The accomplishments you've already achieved will fade away like butter in the sun. In the university world, if you pause for a while, and two or three years later, you say we can start again, you're farther back than you were when the whole enterprise began.

It's been kind of a tough go this year in terms of the cost structure and we thought it was working its way out. Now this is another hurdle to get over. This may well extend the pause that we've seen in the construction-start figures this year.

It seems as though the whole dynamic is based on safe-haven flows. It starts to give pause to what's going on there. It brings the news closer to home.

It went about as smoothly and efficiently as could have been reasonably expected -- and better than most people expected. Nevertheless, it's been destabilizing and unsettling enough to make it almost certain that what's going to happen next is a pause to reflect and reconsider.

The US currency has come under pressure on speculation of a pause in the US monetary tightening cycle together with the increase in the US current account deficit, which the market usually shrugs off.

They are obviously making the case to tighten. There is no justification to speed up or slow down. We will end the year with rates at 4 percent or 4.25 percent. It depends on whether the Fed wants to take one meeting to pause and assess where the economy is going.

It's natural to think the dollar has just entered a short-term downward correction. It could be just a temporary pause before the dollar heads higher again.

An upward surprise in the (producer price index and consumer price index) would be bad for stocks ... but if you get benign readings (this) week, that gives the Fed the ability to be able to pause if necessary.

A pause today is disappointing but understandable, whilst the Bank reassesses the extent of the slowdown in the USA and impact the Budget has on business and consumer confidence,

A pause on rate increases would be another plus for stocks.

A pause is good, but it's not enough,

A pause by the Fed would give a temporary boost to stocks.

The Fed is going to finish at about 5 percent, or certainly pause at 5 percent.

The Fed is closer to moving to a pause in monetary policy. We've turned more bearish on the dollar.

The Fed would only pause on the GM news if there were some indication that the news threatens the health of the economy as a whole or the health of the financial markets as a whole.

The Fed may pause even if the risks aren't balanced. He is trying to tell you that we will still pause even if the numbers come in as they have so far this year.

The Fed may pause ... but I think that would be a mistake. With the economy advancing at such a torrid pace, the Fed can afford to err on the side of overdoing it. ... The mistake would be to refrain from combating inflation pressures.

Initially it provided a basis for people to take profits on their dollar shorts because what the Fed was saying was they may not know with certainty that they will pause (in raising rates) and ....therefore there's no reason to get your groove on and sell dollars.

In many ways, this is no different than the old days when you sat in your room late at night with a cassette tape recorder trying to hit pause and record at the same time.

I mean, it should make us all pause to think that the man who is the poster child of what went wrong with Katrina and FEMA is still on the payroll. Now, it's hard for me to understand that,

I had no idea that he was that good of a passer. It causes you to pause in what you do (double-teaming). He was just terrific. The best thing about him is that he doesn't even care if he scores. That kid is all about winning.

I'm not surprised to see the currency take a little bit of a pause heading into the weekend.

I'm hopeful that what has occurred over the last several weeks will give us all pause and encourage us all to seek a better solution.

If the Union puts conditions on the talks then they will be over very quickly and then there will be a pause until the Union has returned to its senses.

If unit labor costs are not increasing as much as we initially expected, that would get the Fed to pause (rate hikes) sooner than expected.

In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.

In the normal back-and-forth between prosecutor and defense attorneys, some issues were raised that made the prosecutor step back and have pause for thought as far as his future activities, ... He thought, 'This is enough for me to hold off making decisions.'

In the rush to rebuild in the southern states, Americans should pause to think more deeply about what it would take to create more equitable and healthier communities in New Orleans and throughout the affected area,

In the absence of any new M&A speculation this is more of a pause for breath more than anything else. With the exception of the retailers UK Plc is in very good health.

If there is anything more than 250,000 jobs then everything reverses and all bets about a pause at 3.25 percent are off,

His comments fit with the basic idea of a pause at a 5% or perhaps 5.25% funds rate - more likely the former, but with no presumption that this will be the peak in rates.

Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider the gifts you have been given, the difference you have made and the direction in which you are headed.

Before the money machine starts humming, let's pause and think about a better way,

Because of Katrina we will have a pause in September. The aftermath of shocks is still not appreciated and oil prices are still high. The effect is that with the background of structural problems and (losing cyclical support) the dollar is in a phase where it should weaken.

Chairman Greenspan's testimony next Thursday is unlikely to shift his message to signal that a pause is imminent. He will probably maintain confidence that the underpinnings of the recovery are sound and that the adjustment in the manufacturing sector will not broaden.

Chief Justice Rehnquist was a great statesman and an asset to our nation's highest court. The passing of this truly honorable man causes us to pause and thank God for his faithfulness.

If I had known there was an entire day-care center, it might have given me pause to switch targets. That's a large amount of collateral damage,

I don't think the recovery is in danger. But I think what we have here is a situation where the Federal Reserve will probably look at the numbers a lot more closely. If we see another two or three economic statistics that surprise us, yes the Fed can pause and not raise rates in August.

I do think a pause is coming along at some point. My guess has been all along that a pause was more likely in the first meeting of next year than in December. The October employment report strengthens that view.