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Home Depot's results weren't a huge surprise. Home Depot is basically a turnaround in progress, but the company did say it expects the back half of the year to show some material improvement. So that explains why it's not giving quarterly guidance.

Home Depot's results weren't a huge surprise, ... Home Depot is basically a turnaround in progress, but the company did say it expects the back half of the year to show some material improvement. So that explains why it's not giving quarterly guidance.

Gap is working through its turnaround and still dealing with branding issue and how to reinvigorate its core apparel basics.

For North Asia, Korea is the prime candidate to see consumption-led demand in 2006, given the turnaround of domestic spending.

Good teams find a way to stop the bleeding. For whatever reason, I think we're just trying too hard. Things aren't always going to work out, and they haven't, but you've got to do the things necessary to do the turnaround and get back on track. We just haven't been able to do that. We need to, because we're getting to the end of the season and it's important that we do finish on a positive note.

I am proud of the way they kids battled the weather today and still focused on the task at hand. I was happy with the way we swung the bats and we got some great pitching out of all three of our pitchers. We have a short turnaround now before our next game, but we are off to a great start. We just have to keep it going now.

I am not a big proponent of the diversified model. It is extremely hard to manage, and I just think there is a lot of value to be had from focusing on a few things really well. The turnaround process at Morgan Stanley will take some time.

I'd love to continue playing, but these young kids are really knocking on the door. It should be interesting, the turnaround (on the team). We have a lot of girls who are married or thinking of being married or thinking about families.

Goshen has made some serious, serious progress. That's a heck of a turnaround from an 0-and-10 team to a team that plays like that.

For the moment, high-yield fundamentals in Asia are pretty solid. No meaningful signs of distress have yet appeared in the Asian corporate bond market, but the surge in high-yield bond issuance in recent years is a sign of a potential turnaround in the credit cycle over the medium term.

We're confident about a turnaround, but the timing is clearly later.

The market could post a good turnaround next week. The fundamentals are very positive.

The major issue here is the huge build in gasoline stocks. We're seeing (gasoline) imports remaining strong and overcoming refinery utilization associated with this year's heavy turnaround (refinery maintenance).

The key is to keep them in the stores a little longer. Certainly they're in a turnaround situation. Now they need to move to month-in, month-out having stronger same- store sales and bringing that to the bottom line.

This is one of those retailers that is a turnaround story we're following. I think they are putting a good foot forward, but the sustainability is something we have to question.

This is a low-cost way to play the eventual turnaround in technology, ... They're a very strong distributor of hardware and software products and it's gaining market share on its competitors. The stock is $25 on $2.35 of earnings and you're not taking product risk -- you're 11 times earnings on Tech Data for the company that's got a 20 percent long-term growth rate.

This is a company in turnaround mode, but we would have liked to have seen more progress. There wasn't anything that even hinted at a major rebound.

A less-than-two-hour turnaround is pretty remarkable. The staff was on their game. We have one of the best crews in the industry.

The increased online polling stations I think really contributed to the high turnout and quick voting turnaround time.

The improvement in the present situation Index, especially in the jobs component, suggests that consumers believe a slow but sure labor market turnaround is underway. The rise in expectations is a signal that consumers will end this year much more upbeat than when the year began.

Although execution remains solid, sales trends continue (to be) soft and key product initiatives have not played out during the last 12 months. We do not see material changes to the Barbie product line in calendar year 2006 and would not bet on a turnaround in calendar year 2007 just yet.

Although durable goods orders bounced back last month, the turnaround is not strong or broad-based enough to prevent the Fed from easing at the Dec. 11 meeting if it feels that another rate cut is appropriate.

All three (Williams, Cockbain and Ryan Jones) are currently doubtful, given the quick turnaround for the next game, ... We are reviewing their progress regularly.

The full-year results show the turnaround is on track, but we still have much work to do.

The changes seem to reflect Bill Ford's impatience with the turnaround in North America,

The company has been successful, in our view, in implementing its recently announced turnaround program.

The companies that are seeing strong gross margin improvements are getting it not from improving their merchandising mix, but from improved buying. Retailers like Wal-Mart and Target are lowering their cost of acquiring products. Sears on the other hand, continues to struggle with the turnaround of its department stores and problems with its credit card unit.

The company's not going out of business, but ironically it's acting like a cyclical, which drug companies aren't supposed to do. The turnaround may not happen for a couple of years, but it's a well run company that just happens to be facing a lot of problems.

The company has staged quite an impressive turnaround and should be able to see sustained growth around the 3.1 percent level it saw in 2005.

The market was under pressure for most of President Bush's speech. Once that was over, tech led a rebound on gains for Intel and a turnaround in shares of Oracle.

The men also had a strong 100 freestyle with our first sub-50 second swim in this pool. There's been little turnaround time for our senior team after the worlds and they've responded to the challenge.

The market has priced out near-term bankruptcy risk. But the company still has industry risk, execution risk and turnaround risk.

The latest results show that our profit-generating capabilities have improved further, as we saw a profit turnaround even as we were boosting expenses to upgrade our production capacity in order to cope with surging global demand.

The government's argument boils down to a claim that we are putting too much Internet support into our products, ... This is a turnaround from what everyone was saying a few years ago.

Turnarounds seldom turn.