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Steel costs are expected to increase another 20 percent this month alone.

States and consumer advocates think that gift card fees, such as deductions every month if you don't use the card, are unfair to consumers. Many states, led by California, have enacted legislation severely limiting or even banning such fees.

Spring Break is such an important time to donate. Kids are out of school, parents are busy and there's not as much time to go and donate. That's why the Blood Center will have (several donation sites) throughout the month of March.

Some of these ideas are things we can do right away while others will have to be implemented over time. The board will meet next month and will have a report prepared as to how we feel the district should proceed with the suggestions.

Some of the reason the market rallied in the previous month was because of oil going back to the mid-$50s. When you take a look at the cold snap, accompanied with the rise in energy prices, it gets a lot of investors concerned.

Some of those pressures on energy will ease in another month or so, hopefully, ... Stocks aren't a commodity. We have longer expectations. We're looking past the 50-cent increase (in gasoline prices), and that's why stocks can withstand it.

That acquaintance, Chris Johnson, was found in a recliner in the living room in such a state of intoxication that he was on top of the three and a half month old child.

That (account) is absolutely false, ... We had agreed to it a month ago at least. Our efforts have been in preparation for that visit.

Terrorist attacks ... normally come in cycles, and it's unfortunate that we are in that cycle again, ... Sometime this month and next month, we are anticipating a major terrorist attack and most likely in Manila.

My theme is this: Is it worth it to get out there a month early when I want to pitch 10 more years? I only want to go through this once in my life.

My style is I'm not a guy who needs a whole lot of games. When I was a backup, I played one game a month or two games a month. You have to be ready. That's kind of how I always approached it. I learned to adjust to that.

My opinion of him now versus what it was a month ago is night and day.

My worry is that in the absence of discipline, what we will see a month from now after the initial relief bills are passed, are efforts by policy-makers of both parties and a variety of interest groups to take advantage of the disaster by arguing that all sorts of expansions in tax cuts and certain spending ... are needed,

My view on inflation is we'll continue to get reports like this, and the biggest numbers we'll get are 0.1s and 0.2s, ... U.S. consumers just turn it off when they see the prices go up, as happened last month with cars, so it's going to be hard for retailers to sustain any major price increases.

My problem with the Bush plan is that it's so ideologically problematic that now these guys are going to have to argue about it for a month or two. That's bad because we need to inject stimulus into the economy quickly.

Many families are frustrated and overwhelmed by working hard only to see their debt grow instead of their savings. This is a large group of people who are one late payment away from receiving punitive default rates of almost 30% on credit cards and other loans. If you are at the edge, default rates will be devastating. If your credit card bill comes at the end of the month when there is no money left, contact your credit card company to change your billing schedule to fit with your pay schedule.

Many economists will end up eating humble pie this weekend because, while the relationship between the weekly initial unemployment claims and non-farm payrolls is fairly robust, we should also realize that it is not always a stable relationship from month to month.

Looking at November and December together, it seems that retail sales held up pretty well during the holidays, although last month consumers shifted their purchasing power to other categories such as furniture and home goods.

Matt is growing into a leader, working with the staff and pushing the tempo. If Esteban hits like he did the last month a year ago, he will be a good draft. We need him to get hot.

Matthew did very well when he was over here on trial and everything is in place for the deal to be completed. He has gone back home to Australia but will be back here next month at which point the deal will be formally completed.

March is an important month for us. We've got six league games, so lots of points are up for grabs.

March had four additional days. But even factoring in the additional days, the month was good for sales.

Martin and I spoke earlier this month about his decision. I made it clear during the Rugby World Cup that I would have liked him to captain England in our defense of the Grand Slam, but I fully support his decision.

... like the health club model, after you pay your 30 bucks a month for 3 or 4 months and you only go once a week, you realize it's not worth it and you split. That's what will happen with Warcraft ,

I wish I knew. Maybe because they've been battling for the last month and they've been in this grind and have to win every night. Anything can happen in overtime, when the games go into overtime.

I won't necessarily ascribe evil intent to this, ... but if they make it a little more difficult for you to get out of that service, even for a month or two, then that's better for their financials overall.

I was thinking consumer DSL pricing was only going to drop to about $40 a month by 2002, but thanks to this ruling, we'll probably get it down to around $32 by then, ... For every million new lines, there's going to be about a 3 percent reduction in monthly subscriber fees.

I was very pleased with the overall performance after making a tough start to the season. Everything is close and I don't think things will take shape for another month or so.

I was in his kitchen about a month ago telling him, 'You've got to have another dinner for your fund because it's your legacy,' ... He was always scared he wouldn't sell any tickets but the darn place was overflowing all the time. It was a testimony to this guy.

I still have my problems but I try and deal with them a bit better now. I don't let them ride on for a month then realise I've got a stack of them.

I think our pitching staff is pretty good, ... The pieces are starting to fall in place, which is good. We have a month and a half left, so every game is important.

I think right now it's time to turn it up another notch. It's time to refuel the batteries and go for it. This month is real important to us. The first 15 days are real important for us. Hopefully we can go there and we believe we can do that and hopefully everybody on my team thinks the same way I think.

I think probably a month ago or two months ago we wouldn't even come close to winning a game like this. We were very frustrated in the beginning with some very good defensive tactics on their part. They were just committed to fouling Shaquille (O'Neal) every single time.

It doesn't last forever, and $600 or $700 a month is a lot to pay when someone has lost their income.

I think in another month we'll know if the league will allow us to take him off our cap and give us some relief.

It has rained every day this month in Monterey except two days -- March 5 and 8.

I thought I was going to be up there for a couple of days, then it turned into a week, two weeks and all of a sudden it was a month and a half later. I'll take whatever I can get.

I think they're doing what they can do and we appreciate that. I think they have a timetable that's very tight and having the extra month is terrific. I don't know what else they really could do at this point.

June was a difficult month for retailers and it's also typically a month during which comparable sales are driven by discount sales.

July was a transitional month as our brands continued to clear summer merchandise.

July was a tough month for us, and the remainder of the year looks like it will be just as challenging. But we believe that we have the right plans and the best people in our industry to build sales in every market, reduce spending, consider thrift as a way of life and continue to provide the best service and value to our customers.

July was a special month -- those don't come along all the time. You can't expect 40 hits a month the whole season, as much as you'd like to see it happen.

Just in general when the weather is not so nice outside, people tend to come inside and we provide a place where you can have some fun, spend a few hours with some friends and forget about those winter blues. Last year March was our busiest month and hopefully it will be again this year.

It is better to have talks about talks than have nothing at all. I think by the middle of this month we should see some movement.

I think this is a good thing because it makes people aware of what's going on with black culture. A lot of times Black History Month is overlooked, so it's nice to see it recognized.

I think this thing quite possibly could go a lot more than a month or two,

I'm still on West Coast time. So maybe I have a little jet lag or just up to this point for me I haven't really worked on, like, my 40 time. I haven't done too much focusing in that area, as opposed to just trying to gain weight and get bigger and stronger. And now this month I'll focus on my 40 time a little bit more than I have in the last month.

Maybe I'm just getting old. I don't know what the deal is. A few years back I was a 90-93 guy, consistently. That's when I was dominating. That's where I want to be. Hopefully, over the next month or so we can get back there and keep working toward next year.

Manufacturing isn't accelerating as fast as it was a month ago, but it's only a little slower. The report still shows a healthy manufacturing sector.

Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before auto manufacturers start ramping up production to replenish sales-depleted inventories.

Manny will start work at SBC in a month while receiving total support as far as having a special car, an apartment and insurance coverage,

I'm hitting the ball well and my putting is starting to come around. It's getting there. It has been improving slowly for the past month or so. It's just a matter of hard work and keep believing in myself.

I'm in a lot better place than I was a month ago, but I still have a lot of work to do.

Most of the roundtables have been wrapped up in by-laws, but are now moving ahead into substantive stuff and talking about issues. The danger is that the procedural stuff will turn some people off. During the next month or two months, we'll be making the shift from talking about rules and choosing leadership to how we work in a collaborative manner.

We normally charge $5.99 per month for unlimited access ($61.10 per year after 15% discount), which is a GREAT DEAL,! but in order to kick-off 2006, we've authorized this special deal.

We need about 20,000 to 25,000 jobs a month to keep pace with labor force growth, and we've been there recently.

Well, a month later, my popularity jumped seven points. So whatever you do, don't deny a God damned thing!

The 30-day return policy is an outrage. It takes a lot longer than a month for most consumers to determine whether a particular hearing aid is right for them. If hearing aid manufacturers were half as ethical as they pretend to be, they'd offer at least an initial 90- or 120-day break-in period.

The advance we've seen over the last month has been a reaction to fundamentals. Those fundamentals remain, and as long as we get a fairly solid holiday season, I think we'll continue to see stocks move up.

The animals didn't show up until after we were developing. The pigs came just a month ago. To have this property in our backyards is really disheartening. It's malicious.

The Asia Cup, which was to be held next month in Pakistan was postponed and it has now been decided that it will be staged in Pakistan in September 2007.

That was the main thing, to keep the streak alive. What hurt us was the month of November. We dug such a deep hole for ourselves in that month and now we are starting to gain some leeway and every game is valuable.

That was the first time I had seen it under 100 for a month in two years. I also never thought I would see over 200 in one month, but as unemployment rates go up, our numbers also go up.

The-18 month period is a compromise between the feeling that two years is a little bit too long for non-contested cases and that one year seems a little bit short to reflect on matters properly.

The 10-year notes are reasonable to get in at these yield levels compared with a month ago.

That's the way the schedule has panned out so I just have to accept that. I'm looking forward to the New Zealand A tour to Sri Lanka next month and then I'll just concentrate on the domestic summer. I want to stay injury-free for the next six months and perform well, so by the time that first test rolls around against the West Indies I'm right in the frame.

That?s two trophies in less than a month that?ll look real good behind the new bar. It means so much to win this tournament this year considering what the bar?s been through.

I was pitching all of 2002 with a torn rotator cuff. In spring training of 2003, I actually felt my shoulder rip. From that day until about a month ago, it's been a living nightmare. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

I was approached about a month ago. It was unexpected and unsolicited. I've seen how investment banks work from the other side of the fence but I've a lot to learn about how they work on the inside.

I would hope we could have a plan within a month or two. There are people out there who want to move forward with their developments.

I would not be surprised to see continued price increases at least in the short term. September could be an unpleasant month when it comes to fuel prices.

I would like to have some kind of role on this team, there's no question about it but ultimately we help Pacers to win, ... Don't get me wrong. I would like to play. I would like to play a lot. That's not a question. But we're one month away from the season, and there's so much more important stuff than your role on the team. If you're in shape, if you come ready to play, if you take care of your body, then that other stuff will take care of itself. I really believe that.

I would agree that the risk of recession is greater today than it was a month ago. I can certainly think of how we can get to recession.

Most of them don't have insurance, ... They've managed to pay all their bills for the month and have struggled from one paycheck to the next. They're doing things that society tells them to do, but it's not working out.

Most of the company's revenue streams appear to have incrementally weakened each month in the quarter.

Most of the airlines will begin with one or two flights a day and grow back to their original pre-hurricane schedule within a month or so.

Most card users -- 56 percent -- always pay off their balance in full each month and the vast majority of the rest do so most of the time. What's important to them is the length of the interest-free period.

Microsoft makes a pretty powerful case that they need more time. The idea of a breakup wasn't raised officially until April 28, so this hearing comes less than a month later.

Who knows, maybe a month from now will we be looking at this game as something that was very important.

When spot prices hit 49,000 that affected consumption at first. But that was a month ago ... now people expect prices to pick up. Traditionally in March and April consumption is higher than in January and February.

We have one month in the fall when all the athletes do is weight train a few times each week.

We haven't really thought about Oshkosh West since the last time they took care of us which was about a month ago. We'll have to figure out exactly what plan of attack we want to have. They are playing really great basketball.

You like to give them a month into the season to see what happens.

You just have to wait until it's a little drier. You can do asphalt in weather this cool, but if you try to do it wet, you end up going back in within a month to redo it.

Wisconsin's labor market continues to show healthy gains in 2006 in all of our metropolitan areas, with decreasing unemployment for the second month in a row when compared with 2005.

When it rained in the month of March, work on the work sites stopped.

We are basically kind of in limbo, because we may have to be out of our rental home in a month or so, and we have this to come home to, and there's nothing here.

We'd pay more, within reason. If we had to pay US$5 more a month per device, on top of the current $50 per month, nobody would scream. And I bet if the monthly fee went up another $30, some users might pay it.

Well, I said in July before Katrina that we had a lot more work to do in preparedness. And I think that was borne out, obviously, a month later.

we hopefully will have an embryo of this baby by the end of this month or maybe next month.

We don't exactly have a planning horizon for what we need for the schools in 12 months. It's month by month.

We don't even realize it's there. We just know every month on the first, we don't have to go, 'Oh my God, how are we going to make the rent?

While February was a challenging month for all certified GM brands, GM Certified Used Vehicles, the industry's top-selling certified brand, increased sales by 3 percent from January and continues to set the pace for all manufacturers in the category.

Whether you plan your romantic evening a month in advance or are searching for the perfect gift minutes before your date, chocolate and candy remain trusted and timeless classics for Valentine's celebrations.

We're calling it the 2 cents campaign. We are asking students and the faculty to bring in 2-cents each day through the month of September.

We're a little bit surprised by the continued strength, because typically January is a month that shows a slowdown in hiring.

We don't want to make too much of any one month. But last month was flat in terms of total jobs. This month we're down. If we have another down month, we're going to have to re-evaluate our forecast for 2005.

We exceeded our revenue expectations for December, which positions us well for our fiscal fourth quarter. We're pleased and encouraged by the fact that virtually all of our businesses met or exceeded our expectations for December. As usual, customers shopped later than ever and results strengthened as the month progressed. Our employees capitalized on the trend with strong offers and improved in-stock positions.

We elected our mayor and aldermen to help us, not to hurt us in our pocketbooks, but that's just what they're doing, ... If they had to live off a retirement check of $806 a month like I do, they would have never raised it to $20.

We really won't know if she is pregnant until about the last month of her pregnancy.