It costs almost 400 percent more than it did in December 2001 to fill up a plane.
It introduces a little more uncertainty into the marketplace in the sense that most people were expecting some sort of action by the end of December at the latest.
It is a little early to eulogize the housing sector. Look for any deterioration in starts, sales, etc., to be more gradual than the weather-depressed December starts tally would suggest.
I thought at the beginning of the season when we were home most of December that helped us a lot to gel as a team for when we went out on the road in the second half of the season.
I think, your honor, you could say -- and this is not that different from what we have argued -- that as long as the manual recounts will not impair the final certification in time to permit the selection of electors by December 12, that those manual recounts must be included.
I think you have to talk about it. I think we should talk about it. We've done enough in November and December and January to put ourselves in a position to talk about it.
October is a bad month anyway. Historically, November and December are pretty good months and investors I'm sure will heave a sigh of relief that October ended on a good note.
No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds rate at the December or February meeting. That's not going to happen. If that was going to happen, the chairman wouldn't have made a speech to puncture the exuberance.
One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.
I think there has been a pick-up in the last three months of the year, even though December is not yet done and dusted.