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Given the number of major changes consumers have experienced over the past couple of years, the gap between customer expectations and actual service experience tends to widen as uncertainty from mergers greatly influences consumer perceptions. Case in point is the impact major market dynamics plays in future switching intent. Between 2004 and 2005, there has been a 5 percent increase in the intent to switch wireless carriers in the next 12 months -- a reverse from the past two years, where future switching intent remained stable.

Global manufacturing weakness has persisted longer than we anticipated, ... In particular, aerospace, industrial gas turbine and telecommunication markets remained soft, reinforcing the need to increase the scope of our cost savings and restructuring initiatives.

If it had remained always my band, my natural tendency would have been to get more complex and arrange things more and more. That wouldn't necessarily be good for Eddie, or anyone else in the band.

He was almost one of those great athletes who remained a playground legend. He'll freely admit. He tried to flunk his way out of college because all he had passion for was playing ball.

He truly is one of the most optimistic persons that I think I've ever been around. It's amazing, with all the disabilities and obstacles that he's had to overcome, that he's remained so positive.

He's composed and although I wouldn't say he's not frightened, he's remained courageous and is showing incredible fortitude,

He has remained a responsible, diligent, open and honest young man.

He is adored and adorable. He was a calming, grave, gentle man who remained a tremendous friend to me all these years.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

He fractured his neck about four weeks ago and went to hospice. His body, liver, kidneys and all shut down. His mind remained sharp.

To date, interest-sensitive spending has remained robust and the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will have to stay alert for signs that real interest rates have not yet risen enough to bring the growth of demand into line with that of potential supply, even should the acceleration in productivity continue,

He remained one of the top leaders through the entire process. This is no default stance; it's not a game of chicken and he was the last one to blink. He is the man who will lead the Clark County School District into the future and he will carry the responsibilities that this board will continue to give him.

Having new people and adding to the few positive players that remained from the previous year is like a fresh start,

He's a very experienced bullpen arm. The landscape of relief pitchers is fairly inconsistent year to year, but Dan has remained consistent.

He seemed to be an optimist and remained an optimist. I heard that one of the last comments he made was that he said he was impressed with Coach O's recruiting and thought Ole Miss would have a good team next year.

He's done very, very well. He started last year for the most part and has remained the starter this year. He needs to keep improving, getting better day in and day out and becoming a big, strong, hard, nasty defender.

We lost that game in the past, so basically, most of this team, with the exception of one starter, was back and on a mission to get back to Stony Brook not only to be there but to be in it. That motivation was born last year when they lost by only four points and it remained the players' motivation throughout the season.

He was part of that family ... he's still part of that family. He remained close with a lot of people from the Modesto Police Department.

He was never the kind of guy who would get in your face and yell at you. He was a coach, but somehow he also remained kind and courteous. Kids will remember that. I sure do.

He's part of the Nike group of athletes that endorse our product. There's been no change. Our relationship with Kobe has remained intact.

He was a beloved coach, teacher and friend; some of the students were in a state of shock. Yes, Y.C. and I had our moments as coaches from rival schools, but we remained true friends over the years. I saw him two weeks ago at a middle school wrestling tournament. If there was an athletic event at that school, he was there.

Hands down, they are the best defense we'll face, ... They are in a well-respected conference, and this is the first time in a long time that our guys have seen these types of athletes with that kind of speed and size. So it's a good experience. The thing that I like most of all is our guys remained positive throughout the whole game.

I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

It is an honor that our show's continued ratings success has become part of television history, ... 'Survivor' has been, and continues to be, a wonderful experience for me and for my production crew, and that has remained unchanged since our beginnings. I look forward to continuing as part of the CBS family, and in keeping our loyal Thursday night audience entertained and enthralled for many more years to come.

I think the response to Katrina on one level the governmental level only reinforced our inability to come together to solve problems we see in society. What it did show is that the American public remained compassionate and generous people.

I returned to Princeton with a research assistantship on February 7, 1934, and remained there through the academic year 1934-35.

Over the quarter, our pro forma gross margins grew to nearly 35 percent, we generated positive cash flow from operations, and channel inventory remained within our desired range. And we have positioned the company to address broader market opportunities with innovative new products this fall and when the industry moves to a new growth phase.

Our clients remained pretty active hedging last year. Since they had so many hedge contracts in place, their credit lines were full, and they wanted to do more but couldn't.

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.

Our players have remained relaxed when on the verge of winning,

Passions were definitely running high for people who remained in New Orleans. There is a large part of their lives with they need to rebuild from scratch. It has apparently has resulted in widespread frustration, which has made rebuilding efforts that much more challenging.

Our management team remained focused and active in early 2006. We have taken several actions since year end that will greatly accelerate our capital structure improvement and provide a stronger platform for future growth.

That cooling penetrated into deeper layers of the ocean, where it remained for decades after the event. We found that volcanic effects on sea level can persist for many decades.

That a group of works that have remained together for 200 years should be split up for financial reasons means that any opportunity for scholars to see them has evaporated.

My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.

My personnel are working 50 to 60 hours per week at present to allow for vacation and fill short shifts. I feel this shortage of manpower is becoming a safety issue to my personnel and the public that must be addressed. Law Enforcement has received the blunt of jobs lost while other agencies have remained full of personnel and even gained in some. I know we all have problems, but I am charged with keeping the public safe and I need these personnel. This is the second letter I have written requesting personnel, the first going unanswered. I hope this letter gets consideration.

Markets for the company's products remained stable during the quarter, although well below the robust levels of 2004.

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

I think part of these profits reflect prices that far exceeded their costs of manufacturing immediately after the hurricanes, and remained high for longer than they needed to.

It did not remain confidential though I would have preferred it to have remained so. What else can I say at this stage?

I wasn't sure of this after losing the first set, but I remained positive. The first-set loss actually prompted me to become more aggressive.

Most of the investors are American citizens and interest has remained strong.

Merchant banking remains an exceptional business for the handful of Wall Street firms that have remained in it. Unfortunately, the disclosure of merchant banking portfolio positions is weak, and forecasting these gains is at best challenging.

Michelle's remained humble, normal, centered. There's a passion for the work and the actor's life. She loves what she does.

Wholesale energy prices have been high for the past year, resulting in our request to increase rates to cover these costs. Energy markets have remained volatile, increasing nearly three-fold at times over the past two years.

We have overcome injuries and sicknesses and wrestled real well at the state tournament. It's been a long season but we'll remained focused.

While we've been clear in reminding everyone that this was a possibility, we remained optimistic that there would be a way to avoid reaching this juncture. To date there has not been a firm offer put forward that meets the financial criteria necessary to continue operations as is.

While the advertising market remained challenging in the third quarter, our earnings were better than we expected as advertising revenue growth improved in late September. This was particularly true at The New York Times Media Group, where advertising revenues rose 2.9 percent.

We were 15 games under .500, and Barry always remained positive. We started bad, and he never gave up. He kept pushing us. He's 27 now, with six years in the big leagues and a Cy Young Award. We didn't want to lose a great teammate.

We had hoped that it would clarify a lot of issues that remained open since 1998. It did give information about peaceful programs concerning biology and chemistry, but it did not really shed any new evidence from the chemical weapons and biological weapons program.

We had all remained good friends, but musically Hillel felt he was growing in their direction and they were having more success than What Is This.

We've made a few modifications to the design of the parking lot because of certain ordinances, but everything in the plan has pretty much remained the same.

We have to make an adjustment. The pitching remained constant for both teams.

We could have been more efficient and effective overall had Oil City remained in the partnership.

We just didn't score. They had 12 points at halftime and yet they were within a point. And the longer it remained a close game, the more pressure I think we felt was because of the finality of this single elimination.

'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

We all remained very content with our overall effort. It was an excellent first season, and I am very appreciative of the effort put in by all of the players.

Turnover remained healthy because some institutional investors chased after select laggard industrial and retail stocks.

Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

We played with a lot of heart. I think we were underestimated a little bit going into this game, but we remained focused from beginning to end.

The Department for Education and Skills looks to be losing ground in its battle against truancy. Having remained at the same level for many years, the level of truancy has suddenly increased - to over 0.8% of school days.

The cooling in prices in April was not unexpected given the surge in March. However, the underlying picture remains reasonably healthy as demand conditions have remained quite firm.

What we see from our state university system is no growth. It has remained static over time.

We knew we had a special show and we remained as a family. We all knew that we weren't going to get this kind of a chance again.

We learned about it that weekend, he was suspended that Monday and he's remained off the job since then. There are very rigid requirements for certified probation staff as far as any criminal history.

The really positive thing long-term is, the core of our infrastructure of the $5 billion to $8 billion tourism industry remained intact, ... As odd as it may sound right now, we are optimistic that this recovery is not only going to happen, its going to happen well and we're going to have a great city going again.

We have been advocating energy saving for years but it has remained only a slogan because of a lack of a supervising system.

The recession has ended, ... It is pretty typical but mild recession because consumer spending remained firm and housing continued to grow.

We thought originally we would have a massive increase in jobless claims right after the storm. Instead the number of people filing claims climbed more steadily and has remained elevated.

We believe PC demand remained sluggish in October and Intel is facing a more challenging competitive environment.

Weather conditions played a major role in the lake's distribution of walleye in 2005. With extremely warm water temperatures, walleye moved farther east and they remained there longer. If water temperatures remain cool in 2006, we should have a phenomenal walleye fishery in the west and central basins of Lake Erie.

While for many years after the death of the Commodore the Vanderbilt family remained in direct financial and operating control of the New York Central... yet the brains and resources of the Vanderbilt's were not alone responsible for the brilliant career of the system down to recent times.

The project had its challenges. Each of the retail stores remained open and operating as faade construction took place. This required significant pre-planning and constant communication.

When you have seniors who have played a lot for all four years, you go through a lot of ups and downs. Especially when you have some success. I think these seniors have handled the ups and downs and the success pretty well. They have remained humble, and that's important.

With the change of government this matter was not further pursued and the tax deductible limit has remained at $6,000.

We need to change that. It's been down for many, many years. We've watched some of the other states around the area change that in effect for the better, but we've remained the same.

When we met, we just blended. We met as strangers and remained friends.

Two-thirds of Gulf of Mexico production and nearly 10 percent of U.S. refining capacity remained shut in

Expectations have come down enough at this stage. This is the first day in a long time when the market has ignored bad news and the sentiment has remained positive,

Falling demand in Europe and Japan weakened the overall growth even as demand from China remained strong.

The good news was, I ended up not losing my job, I remained active in the union and my dad was quite proud of me.

While the volume of spam reaching AOL email inboxes has remained at low levels compared to it's height in late 2003, the spam that's out there is more insidious, crafty, devious, and dangerous than ever.

We've had a difficult and trying time with all the political troubles but throughout that period, football has been a unifying force and the fans remained supportive. The atmosphere was unbelievable and I guess I felt it more than most given past history. Let's hope this is a stimulant and the starting point for a new future for Northern Irish football, because we've been in the dumps for many years.

We've had moose wander through the county before, but this is the first time ? that I'm aware of ? that any have remained through the winter. It's been kind of neat to have them.

Up until today, this has been a personal and private family matter for Atkins. It is unfortunate for the family that this has not remained so.

The reasons for this unusual severity of human disease have remained unclear.

Various on-line discussion groups are ways to find out about books and writers that one might have remained ignorant of otherwise.

We had to drive an hour and a half home and then start all over again the following morning at 7:30. Even with all that, our team remained focused. They gave everything they had.

This was, without a doubt, a blowout quarter. The demand picture was better than we had been expecting. Order rates remained strong in the last month of the quarter, and we generated nearly a billion dollars of cash.

This was a win great win by a strong and special team. We remained in Zone I and that's where we belong.

This was a big win for our program. We came into the game ready to play, and we remained focused throughout the game to get the win.

This vast piece of lyric theater, with its attempted fusion of music and ancient drama, has remained between the pages of musical encyclopedias. Often enough, that is where such enterprises ought to stay.

Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However, compared to historical activity levels, the amount of space completed this year has been somewhat modest, but we expect the pace to quicken during the second half of this year.

Through the exhibit, you can see changes in Michelangelo as a man, and some of the core artistic elements that remained stable.

The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert.