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There is a limit to the negative effect on the yen of the capital outflows that have been driving it down for the last two months.

There is a limit to how long and how far deficits can be sustained,

There is a limit to entertaining excuses. The package of excuses may have now run out.

We've already seen some big disappointments in both Limited and Ann Taylor. Up front, retailers are also facing their most difficult hurdle of the year in the form of a 6.1 percent gain racked up in September last year.

We struggled knocking down some shots and putting the ball in the basket at times. We limited them to a low number of points, but we couldn't convert ourselves.

We believe that our confirmatory testing indicated that the problem was confined to a limited number of lots. Therefore, today's action ... is unexpected and disappointing. But we respect the regulatory authority's judgment, because we believe it's fundamentally based on concerns for safety.

There are some coaches who believe you just let the best players get all the points they can and stop everybody else. Others limit the best player and make other people beat you. For us, we want to guard everybody. But we really want to make sure that we make it hard or at least difficult for that player to continually make the plays.

We strongly encourage (theater owners) to keep the ads limited in duration and make them entertaining in their own right. We hope there will be a migration toward fewer ads that don't replicate what's on television, because people can't stand that.

We're asking for some reasonable limits for going into the Gulf Coast and dealing with unknowns, ... A contractor goes into an unknown situation to remove debris or fix a utility line, and three years from now someone decides they did it improperly.

We're always out looking for these sorts of deals: buying branded properties in strong markets with limited competition.