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We believe that the Fund's strong investment performance and growth in assets clearly indicate that the era of socially responsible investing is beginning to dawn,

We believe that the company's strategy is sound. But we must move at a much faster pace with a greater sense of urgency. The poor fourth quarter performance caused us to take a much deeper look at the state of our business and resulted in the launch of a turnaround plan.

We believe that SAP has taken a big step with its partners in exposing opportunities where we can collaborate to realize new shareholder value. Built on our ArchestrA platform and running on the SAP NetWeaver platform, Invensys Wonderware software solutions will bring new capabilities to the dynamic challenge of production and performance management improvement.

We are going to see a slow fading away of some of the funds in the bottom half of the performance rankings.

We are seeing a different environment and performance in the second half of the fiscal year compared to the first half, ... Some of the issues that negatively impacted our third quarter will continue to impact the remainder of our fiscal year. We, like many other companies, are watching the effect of a softening economy on our business.

There are bound to be disagreements over trade, partly because of the very strength of China's economic performance.

We're in a position where it's possible to chase 350. It's not easy by any means, and it'll take a special performance by someone, but we've got the players to do it.

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

We spoke about lapses of concentration and things which he had to put right and, in this match, he put it all in. I'm delighted he's taken it on board. I can't consider sending him out on loan again. I've got a squad of players who are still in the cup and have some important league matches coming up. I can understand his concerns. With a World Cup in the summer he needs to impress his manager but, on that performance against Fulham, he can definitely do that.

When you use Microsoft Outlook from the Indianapolis or Chicago office, there's no difference in performance compared to Dearborn.

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a significant impact on how logistics cost performance is viewed. For example, those companies using logistics costs as a percent of sales as their primary measure and who operate in industries such as chemicals and other commodities saw that cost ratio fall in 2005 due to strong upward pricing power that impacted the top line, even though logistics costs also rose. Other industries had rising logistics costs with flat or declining prices for their products, driving up logistics costs as a percent of sales.

We're missing two of our main horses, and our young guys can keep their heads up by their performance (Friday night), competing against a playoff-hungry team.

We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new trends on which to base any charges in earnings expectations." ()

We're standing at the threshold of a new era in high-performance computing.

We're sorry to see it go. It took 30 years to put that name back on a Pontiac car. GTO did what it needed to do: Give us a credible performance vehicle to attract people into showrooms. Even those who quibbled about the styling never questioned the car's performance.

We're going to focus on our own performance and not worry about what Stanford or Alabama is doing.

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

When we go from single core to dual core, and dual to quad core, we get huge performance increases. When you look at the power efficiency and the response of the computing workload, you get the benefit.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

What a great, great performance. That's a big breakthrough for her, and I think there's more in the tank there.

What has happened along the border is a very early stage amid general excitement. We can't judge Egypt's performance in such unusual conditions. We trust they will live up to their commitments.

We can do a lot better than we did last week, and this week we have to, ... I look at myself as being a leader of this offense. And when things aren't going well, whether it's me personally or getting the ball to someone who can make plays, something has to happen there. We're not going to let that kind of performance happen again.

What's remarkable is not that they are having a difficult year this year, but how incredible their performance was for five straight years. They redefined Formula One,

Whats interesting is, the very reasons that some people like your performance are the exact things that other people feel made your performance bad.

United has made tremendous progress in our restructuring to improve performance across the board, in costs, revenue, operations and service to our customers.

U.S. stocks are cheap and will make up the gap in performance with other markets around the world.

With the holidays now upon us, everyone throughout our global toy organization is focused on maximizing our performance during this season, ... We have begun to execute our holiday strategies, and we believe consumers are clearly recognizing that we have the widest assortment of toys available.

With NVIDIA Quad SLI, Velocity Micro is able to deliver to gaming fanatics the PC of their dreams. As the premier builder of ultra performance gaming computers, we are proud to work with NVIDIA to bring this amazing technology to market.

With multiple expansion having accounted for most of the outsized stock price performance for the group over the last year, we believe that many companies must now deliver on the robust earnings potential that their share prices often imply.

We feel that is going to make us a lot more competitive down the road as we come up again harder teams. They are going to have to worry about Laurel hitting and setting, Morgan setting, the ball coming over on maybe a second hit. We didn't see that last night, but we did in the scrimmage. It is just a lot different. I was happy with our performance (Tuesday), but there is room for improvement.

We?re pleased with our performance in the second quarter. The 3% net sales gain was on top of a 4% increase in last year?s second quarter, and all three of our business segments posted sales growth for the period.

We're finally seeing hard data that confirm the recent positive sentiment indicators. We expect a strong export performance well into 2007.

We're just incorporating so many things into one event it's not just music, it's not just performance art.

We're just happy to we have some things that have been positive and going our way. We haven't looked like we've had the best performance out there but we have had some good situations.

We're focused on managing our capacity for maximum effectiveness, in order to best serve our customers with a broad range of solutions, including our suite of converged IP services. Alcatel continues to be a valued partner and contribute strongly to our industry-leading network performance and global capabilities.

We're hopeful this turns into something that becomes a standard for performance in terms of how you treat your workers and train them. For businesses making decisions, we don't want Florida farms left out because of labor practices.

To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.

Through Great American Voices, the NEA is building bridges between the military and arts community, ... This tour gives singers a chance to perform for new audiences and brings great music in live performance to military families.

Three years after beginning our Action Agenda, Schering-Plough today is delivering a solid record of performance -- growing our business and moving ahead with the turnaround phase of our six- to eight-year plan.

Three weeks ago, you had a surprisingly strong performance by 'Deep Impact.' Next week, 'The Horse Whisperer.' A year ago, 'The Lost World' didn't have competition.

We're reaching students who otherwise wouldn't have access to college, so I haven't seen any difference in their performance over the years.

With these results we've proved that the Fabric 7 architecture enables a level of scalability and performance on x86 platforms that easily competes with more expensive, proprietary systems that have traditionally dominated the midrange and high-end of the server market.

With these last few races all coming in quick succession, there was no reason to expect a big change in our performance level,

With the performance we had in Texas, we knew that as something we didn't want to repeat. Coming in, we knew this was a must-win for us.

With the new MB86276 2D GDC, we are expanding our controller line to meet the specific price and performance benchmarks of North American vehicle manufacturers. This version meets the industry's requirements for navigation systems appropriate for mid-range cars and trucks in the U.S. and Canada.

With very strong overall performance early in the quarter, we are seeing flows into the industry pick up once again, in contrast to the recent trend of assets remaining on the sidelines.

We knew this would be a very difficult meet. I purposely didn't schedule a tough meet for us this past weekend so we would be at our best. And I couldn't be much happier with our performance today. We beat a very good Owen team.

We know when we have a performance like that most of the time we're going to hear it.

We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.

We know how our school districts struggle with finances. Obviously if there is greater (financial) support (from the state), they're going to have a better performance as long as they try to work within a budget and framework.

We know both Steve and Rock have lots of fans in the area and we hope plenty of them will turn out to enjoy a great performance this Thursday night.

With two months' results in, it appears that our third-quarter performance won't match analysts' expectations, ... We've done a much better job of managing expenses this quarter. But expense management can't compensate fully for struggling economies in Asia-Pacific and new signs of economic uncertainty elsewhere.

With this new version, we continue to enhance Berkeley DB Java Edition with a focus on performance for highly concurrent systems. Berkeley DB Java Edition is the ideal choice for developers seeking fast, local persistence with zero administration and a pure Java solution.

Woodcrest is the big dog. It gives us both performance and performance-per-watt leadership. That'll be the one we position most aggressively, market most aggressively and use as the flagship product. If it's not in a particularly energy-efficiency (focused) segment, Dempsey is a great product.

We're still in the hole and we've got to battle to get even again. When you have a performance like we had, everything needs work. We have to get good at the basics and try to give ourselves a chance.

We're still going to have our growing pains along the way. We bounced back today, but we've got to go out every game and we've got to try to duplicate the performance today, whether you're playing against Indiana or Florida State or UCLA.

We're still comfortable with the performance and expect Montecito to offer a 2X performance improvement over earlier versions of Itanium.

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

We've got a small team, only six athletes here. So we are going to have to do well with six athletes in seven events. On the other side of the coin, on the performance list there are four No. 1 and a No. 2.

We have seen a return to strong growth in personal care and in developing and emerging markets. Performance in Europe improved compared to last year.

We were a strong club. We took on so many holes because of injuries. With those gaps we got to a certain performance level . . .

We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.

We are a lot further along at this time than we were last year. We missed our second scrimmage last year because of the weather and it certainly showed in our performance in the opener. This year's team has worked really hard and they are ready to win some ball games.

We actively are exploring a rear-drive, V-8 car and feel there is a place for one in our lineup. GM has made it clear there's a place for rear-drive cars in the marketplace today, and it's no secret GM is exploring ways to use a rear-drive platform for a performance vehicle.

We achieved significant gross margin improvement driven by the strong performance of our recently acquired Communications Test and Measurement business,

We achieved our goal with the Ignite ball by offering the serious player easier access to 3-piece performance. This ball is perfect for the player who is looking for lower spin and maximum distance. We also believe that it will instill confidence in players' attempts to shape shots so that they can reach greens in regulation and, ultimately, attack pins.

Wayne is still not fully fit. But he's only going to get better. I was pleased with his performance against West Ham in the last game and he will get fitter and stronger as he goes on. He'll be back in the squad for the World Cup.

We are very focused on improving our fleet's velocity and creating additional capacity for our existing and prospective customers by applying economics, which maximize the utilization and performance of our fleet. Ultimately, by improving the velocity and utilization of our fleet, we lower the cost to the shipper community for barge transportation.

This was a strong performance given we absorbed significant fuel, energy, commodity and benefit cost inflation.

This was a solid third quarter for Federated, propelled by strong sales and earnings in our department store segment and a level of performance in our direct-to-customer catalog and e-commerce businesses that was in line with what we had anticipated, ... We are entering the fourth quarter with our inventories in good shape, and we remain optimistic that it will be a good retail Christmas season.

This was a solid performance in the face of continuing stiff headwinds from rising raw material and energy costs and currency movements, and reflects a sharp focus on managing the things within our control and the steady execution of our operating agenda,

This was as good a performance as I've seen in awhile. These guys were awesome. I could have called any play on my sheet today. The blocking was crisp, the running was outstanding, the effort was awesome.

What we need is some clarity as to the direction of the business, and what the management commitments are in respect to company strategy and the financial performance attached to that.

There are no excuses for a performance like that. I think they just thought it was going to get done and somebody else was going to do it. Unfortunately, the person who did it was the entire Cal team. Nobody from Oregon stepped up today.

There are new technologies currently under development that are astounding there is always room for this category to grow. One of the big challenges when you deal with proprietary performance fabrics is to ensure that the costs involved with developing and producing the fabrics does not make the garments cost prohibitive to the consumer at the end of the day. We are careful to be sensitive to that for the benefit of our customer and we also understand which benefits our customer values as well.

The only way we can build any momentum is by stopping getting beaten and we've done that. I know it was a home game and everyone will say it was a game we should win. Maybe had we been on 16 or 17 points and flying we might have done but we're struggling like hell. That was a really good performance and a good draw.

There are different proposals. It certainly will be a mix of the performance from the last World Cup and the world rankings.

We decided to approach IAM after a rigorous search across the industry. They have exactly the combination of history, people and performance to bring critical mass to our fund of hedge funds business.

We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.'

We're playing better now than we have all season. Hopefully, we can get a good pitching performance, continue to play good defense and scratch out some runs.

We've been in four complexes in four weeks, I've been in three hotels, now an apartment. But that (performance) had nothing to do with where we live or what we do. We sucked on that field today.

We're able to monitor the customer interaction, what the consumer is looking for, ... We're able to monitor what our own agent's performance has been.

We're announcing products that put us literally years ahead of our nearest competitors in terms of performance,

We hit the ball well and we had a good pitching and defensive performance. It was a good game for us.

Yes (I was happy with their performance). I'm not sure about the other teams, but I was very happy that we were very competitive. That's what I like about indoor meets because they get the competitive juices flowing.

Yahoo had another strong performance this quarter. Our overall advertising business saw solid growth and our user numbers continued to climb.

We have reaped the benefits from investment banking. We are particularly pleased with our M&A performance in a business where we were literally nobody four or five years ago.

We have philosophical differences. We think the new products are targeted at early adaptors, focused on performance and not price. This is an elite model.

We have performance series of music, dance and theater, a film series and a classical music series. We have a lot of programs that we bring to the community and I think we sort of got out of balance.

We have a young team, and our guys faced some adversity early in the meet but turned things around and did what they had to do. Our depth took over, and we won some close races. I was really pleased with the performance coming out of winter break.

We've seen an outstanding performance by the FTSE, the DAX and the CAC during the month of September, which is notoriously not a very good month.

The fact that pay for performance is reinstated demonstrates that council recognizes the quality of staff that we have here. And it shows that they understand the benefits in rewarding and retaining quality service.

The extraordinary financial performance of conventional homebuilders in this economic cycle leads us to believe that there is a strong possibility that their stocks could be poised for record-breaking valuations.

The creation of a closely aligned, separately managed bottler of this size would help us pursue consolidation opportunities and improve our performance in the marketplace.

The Coventry performance was far too bitty and disjointed,

We've still got a ways to go. Obviously, (the new players) have made a contribution. Sometimes they make a contribution with their presence as well as their performance because they motivate other guys and they make other people fight a little stronger for their position within the roster.

We have so many funny moments, like bringing guys up in different cities during 'Cater 2 U. There's a performance with myself and Nelly. We let you backstage, like right before we go up the lift. We wanted everybody to be able to see what goes on behind the scenes.