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Without a coherent U.S. aviation policy that reverses the bias against airline size and removes the barriers that prevent us from constructive consolidation, U.S. carriers will be unable to compete on a global scale and we risk being marginalized,

With Sun's March quarter now over, our sense is that, while Sun's quarter ended on a strong note, revenues were likely sequentially flattish, probably with the slight bias toward the downside.

Experienced investors should already have well-rounded portfolios, but might be prepared to add specific industry-sector funds or even single-country equity exposure. This could give them the extra style bias they want to help them to achieve additional growth potential during the next phase of the economic cycle.

Faces hold a special power for us, perhaps more so than art or objects. The beauty bias has a real influence upon us, something we should be mindful of when dealing with others.

While we do not keep statistics regarding how much 'discrimination' occurs, we can confirm that we receive fewer allegations of bias-motivated criminal activity now than we did in the time period shortly after 9/11. The Justice Department is committed to aggressively investigating and prosecuting these bias crimes.

You can no longer make the argument that there is a lot of excess capacity out there. The bias on inflation is a little bit to the upside and the Fed has to be careful about that.

Uncertainty on future FOMC interest-rate hikes, with a strong bias of at least another quarter-point increase at the next meeting, gave the U.S. dollar a lift after the FOMC decision.

Within investment banking, there was a strong bias towards the trading result, while underwriting actually fell from the fourth quarter.

We tend to see the number of bias incidents go in cycles in large part tied to international events. It has leveled off since 9/11, but unfortunately at a higher level than prior to 9/11.

We had thought that transparency meant efficiency in the market... and that's not what happened. The meaning of the bias within the Fed was not well understood.

With few signs that consumer prices are about to break to the upside ... along with signs that aggregate demand remains robust, we expect the Fed will not only vote to keep rates constant, but will leave the growth and inflation bias statements unchanged.

We don't use these numbers to make management decisions, because of the bias that's inherent in the number, not knowing how many we miss from year to year. These are a minimum count.

You explore the negative vibe hoping to expose a bias upon which the court may act in your favor. Or you repress any expression of delight from the positive vibe hoping that opposing counsel has not identified a connection between you and the prospective juror.

We should have narrow range trading today with a downside bias on profit-taking.

We think that as long as labor market conditions remain tight and oil prices high, the Fed will retain an inflation bias which could last until early spring.

Bond yields will have a bias to rise toward the end of the year. Concerns about oil and the hurricane have eased, spurring some selling in bonds.

Everything's playing into the idea that the stress in the economy is beginning to ease. The Fed will take that bias away from inflation and make their risk assessment more balanced between inflation and growth. I think in all of the major indexes the bottoms have sort of been made here in October, and now we're ready to advance. I don't think it's a huge advance...trends are definitely in the investors' favor.

Every source of information comes from a different vested interest. Usually there's a bias built into that information.

Contrary to logic, people were hoping the Fed would change their bias to a neutral stance. Part of the exuberance earlier was an increased appreciation of the likelihood that we would have a president-elect before the market opens on Monday.

Are your articles always this bias (sic) and weak, ... or are you just not very knowledgeable when it comes to sports?

There's a general upside bias for the dollar right across the board, but that inclination is tempered a little when you come up against big events like the trade data.

There's nothing much next week in terms of earnings, and not really hugely influential economic news, but the bias is still pretty positive, and I think we're likely to grind higher.

Is there an inherent liberal bias in some of our leading news organizations or, asking the same question another way, is there an inherent anti-conservative bias in some of our leading news organizations?

Is relying on foreign precedent and selecting and choosing a foreign precedent to create a bias outside of the laws of this country, is that good behavior?

These data back the RBA on hold and with a neutral bias for now, with the next move still looking down to us, albeit not until much later in the year.

Rumors have it that RIM will announce a deal with Intel to use their chips. Options volume is heavy with the bias on upside call buying.

Science has always been uncomfortable with emotions, so there's a real bias against studying domestic animals. Especially canines that may sleep in our beds and eat off our plates and otherwise get spoiled.

Put yourself in the arbitrator's position. Odds that the plaintiff employee is ever going to need your services again are almost zero. But if you're a large, multistate or multinational corporation, you figure, 'If I give a good ruling on this case, they're going to keep shooting me these cases and I can make a lot of money.' That's a built-in bias in the arbitration procedure.

The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.

Some selling is coming through the bond market because of stocks and the consumer price report. Yields will probably have a bias to rise toward June because investors are becoming more alert to the chances of a policy shift.

Speculation of a policy shift grew over time and pushed up bond yields. The economic recovery was strong and the stock rally continued, keeping an upward bias on yields.

Demand is strong enough for companies to raise prices. This will keep the Fed's bias toward higher rates intact through the second quarter of 2006.

Despite some better-than-expected data over the past two weeks, this report is sufficiently gloomy to force the Fed to ease next Tuesday and retain their bias toward further economic weakness.

Departments don't like to leave officers on leaves. Their bias is to get it done as quickly as possible. The administrative leave usually lasts one or two weeks.

Appointing former politicians to the job is dreadful, dreadful, dreadful, because you don't want anyone with the appearance of bias when a question of constitution comes up. So she was a welcome appointee.

As a trial lawyer, Edwards brings to his job an inherent bias against innovation and the American entrepreneurial spirit that is essential to compete and create jobs.

As a business that's strategy-focused, I regularly experience bias on the part of male clients who appear reluctant to accept that a woman can deliver meaningful contributions. That makes it very challenging for women-owned companies like my own to elevate their visibility.

The call volume is aggressive compared to the puts indicating that option participants have an upward bias on Symbol.

That track always had a speed bias but last fall they made it extremely deep and I don't recall it being that way before. A number of horses that shipped in from California and were odds-on favorites didn't run a jump. That worried me.

That shows a bias within the lab to incarcerate innocent people. It appears there are innocent people in prison. And it appears that law enforcement has played the ostrich ? that everyone has just ignored the problem.

This is not the typical California district. This is clearly a district with strong Republican bias . . . but it's not overwhelming.

This analysis relies on self-reported data that is updated irregularly. However, we used the driver's license data because we have an enormous sample and because we have addresses. These two advantages outweigh any potential bias in the weight information.

Although there wasn't, in my view, bias or conspiracy in this case, they didn't get justice, because justice delayed is justice denied.

There's a growing effort within the Fed to look for other ways to add liquidity into markets and to sustain the interest-rate-led growth we've had. I think they are going to move to a bias to ease policy again, but I'd look for the ease somewhere else. It won't be a rate cut.

There's a tremendous bias in state laws against third parties and independent candidates, bred by the two major parties, who passed these laws. They don't like competition. So it's like climbing a cliff with a slippery rope, ... Meet the Press.

The Reserve Bank may shift to a very mild tightening bias which won't be enough to support the Australian dollar while the Fed is pushing up rates.

There's a lot of trousers. There are some dresses, about 20 of them, ... Skirts are just above the knee. I've also done Bermuda shorts. They're cut on the bias to give them a lot of movement, and they're also very light.

There's an upward bias in the market, with more people generally kind of positive because the economy is doing well. Most people agree there's going to be at least two more rate changes. If you start talking about more than two, then it's going to be weird. That will have a negative effect on the market.

As we get closer to the quarter-end, if the Federal Reserve does not raise rates, and even indicates a neutral bias after that, you will have a quarter-ending window-dressing rally like you've never seen before,

As more and more middle class African-Americans are moving to areas that are traditionally all-white, we're starting to see a lot of racial bias incidents like this occur.

Following the onset of the Iraqi conflict, financial markets seem to have an upward bias for mortgage rates. However, that's not to say that uncertainty has diminished in any large way, but that it has shifted to a different set of unknowns.

It smacks of unfairness. School board members don't come into the hearing with a clean and open mind. Their bias is to support the superintendent. School boards hire superintendents, and they tend to want to support the guy they brought in.

It's going to be a bit of a struggle, but there's a seasonal bias that should prevail over the next few weeks.

It's probably a bit early to change the bias to neutral. I suspect they'll say there's still more risk of another downturn than there is for too much of an upturn. Maybe the next meeting is when you have them take away the cutting bias.

It's my bias to believe the Fed will act again -- next month, if not next week.

The next three percent move for the S&P could be up, and that would take us to important resistance levels. The question is what is the bias beyond that, what is the next five percent for the market? That's not clear.

The BOJ may hold rates near zero for more than six months even after the end of its current policy. The yen may see brief buying if the BOJ changes policy today but it won't last long. The bias is for a weaker yen.

The bias will be for a stronger euro. The European economy is looking good and there's lingering concern about inflation.

The bias to higher rates remains intact, but will stay a threat rather than a reality until stronger recovery surfaces.

The bias still seems to be to the upside. Buyers are optimistic and see the long-term side of the market. The downward pressure now is not that great. The money flow has just been too strong.

The bias is on the upside; the bias is on the tightening side; it is not on the loosening side.

The bias is for U.S. Treasury yields to trade modestly to the downside on risk-aversion shifts and the downside biases on U.S. economic releases this week.

The bias in terms of the Fed's idea of where they may go next is still in the direction of restraint.

The bias for today and tomorrow should still be to the upside because of the end of the quarter when you get portfolio adjustments.

The bias at this time of year should be up and, if it's not, it will be because of Southeast Asia.

Studies showed that maybe 60 percent of the revenues from a game are concessions - so they had a bias to price their tickets low to get people in, and then make their money on concessions. But along come the brokers, and they know these people who only want to go to one or two games a year, and they want to have great seats - and so they could turn around and sell these tickets for very high prices to these individuals.

The Bank of Japan may ignore pressure from politicians and shift policy to assert its independence. The yen may see brief buying if the BOJ changes policy today, but it won't last long. The bias is for a weaker yen.

It's Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. We're fighting this negative bias across the board.

It must be shown that something that is already criminal was motivated by bigotry or bias because of, in this case, racial factors.

It's a matter of words that don't have much content. The fact that they've said they have a bias to tighten means nothing if meeting after meeting nothing happens.

It was not only excessive force but a meanness and bias against this person because he was disabled, a lack of sensitivity cause this fellow could walk very well.

I view the risk as very high that the Fed shifts its bias to tighten (interest rates) sooner than we had forecast. The risk is rising that they will move sooner.

There used to be a New York Stock Exchange bias but the editors have become more progressive over the years. And in this age of a shrinking world, the Dow should represent a global economy,

Not only is the economy slowing but it is a reminder that inflation risks diminish as the economy slows. It emphasizes that the Fed would be quite well justified for easing policy as early as next week, a move to a neutral bias with a rate cut being the next logical step in January.

After the last practice session yesterday we made the fatal error of adjusting something on the car and I didn't get my brake bias back to where it needed to be. I spun on the first lap and almost spun on the second lap so I spent the qualifying session adjusting my brake bias.

The Fed is likely to make no change in its rate policy because it still see risks in the economic outlook, but I suspect it will remove its bias towards easing. Now that recovery is underway, the Fed will probably tell us the risks are a little more evenly split between weakness and inflation.

The Fed is going to have a bias to be very easy in terms of policy, not just in the next couple of months, but well into the future.

The Fed will probably hold rates steady at a low level as long as they can. And I think as long as the unemployment rate is rising, they'll maintain a policy bias toward weakness.

The Fed should be very comfortable with this. They likely will shift the bias in their upcoming meeting to neutral.

The Fed raises rates the next two meetings and then holds with a bias toward tightening.

The continued buoyancy of the labor market has sustained consumer confidence and limited the fallout from the softening housing market. This, in turn, ensures that the Reserve Bank has retained a tightening bias for interest rates.

The CDC seriously underestimated the risk of dying in the overweight by not adequately dealing with the bias due to smoking and disease,

I'm surprised by the level of homophobia ? bias against gays and lesbians ? there is on campus.

If the recent trends of muted wage inflation, deteriorating employment and industrial recession persist, we would expect the current downside monetary policy bias to translate into a cut in base rates. Our forecast is for one more quarter point reduction, in May.

If people could get a condom as conveniently and naturally as buying a Chinese cabbage, the AIDS prevention function carried out by condoms could finally imbue people's lives and change their bias (against condoms).

If you don't eliminate the bias caused by smoking, it will artificially inflate the risk of dying among the lean and underestimate the risk of dying in the overweight,

If you look back to 1994 when the Fed was hiking rates continuously, after every rate hike the Fed adopted a neutral bias. However, the tightening cycle continued until early '95, for a total of 300 basis points (3 percent). We are not looking for that type of tightening cycle this time, but nevertheless it does suggest that the neutral bias does not preclude further rate hikes down the road.

If there is a bias toward judicial supremacy, it's best that we know this now, in advance of a confirmation vote.

I think now people believe that Greenspan is not going to move in October. Now, so the debate has shifted to whether he takes a tightening bias or no tightening bias.

His defense was concerned that it could bias the jury when he gives his testimony.

Because the event happened, people will tend to attribute the slump it to Greenspan, but the market had a bearish bias as it was and we're the middle of a big refunding week.

Housing construction is likely to be weak into the first half of 2006 and possibly beyond. It works against the tightening bias of the Reserve Bank.

Chairman Greenspan has really been a beacon of stability. I think our sense is we'll see a bias shift rather than a rate cut.

He's very fair, balanced and objective. I don't detect any bias in him and I don't detect any ambition.

When it comes to policing, since it can have literally fatal consequences, I have said, in my first budget, we would put money into that budget to help us deal with implicit bias by retraining a lot of our police officers.

We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.

I definitely didn't know that the major corporations, like Fox and CNN, were seen as either left or right. The information is more important or applicable around elections. I'll definitely look at reporting companies to see the difference in bias then.

I don't see it having a big impact. The whole point of mutual funds is to avoid the Wall Street bias and most shops have their own in-house research. Big firms, like a Fidelity, have 200 professionals across the world so they never cared about the Street research to begin with.

I don't think this sheds a whole lot of new light on where the Fed is headed. Over the next several months, we retain our bearish bias and expect yields to grind higher.

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.