David Dyer
David Dyer
believe brand global validation
We believe this transaction is a validation of the brand and the global opportunities that lie ahead.
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Obviously, our ability to predict future sales and earnings has not been borne out by experience so far this year, ... We need to adopt a wait-and-see approach to the rest of the year. The holiday season is always very important to us but it is really the key to a successful year this time out.
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We've made much progress in this past quarter, especially in getting our inventory more closely aligned with sales, restructuring our organization into functional operating units and putting people in key leadership roles,
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We have worked hard for nearly a year to cooperate fully with the United States Attorney's Office, and are pleased that it has determined to close its investigation,
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We hit the ball well with runners in scoring position and we only made two errors defensively.
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We share a lot of common character and culture,
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extremely pleased with our first quarter performance, having demonstrated strong sales and a significant improvement in earnings. This was especially gratifying in the face of a difficult economy.
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I had too many injuries. Neck and back problems really started to wear on me. I can still play golf, but I feel like my body won't allow me to play at a level where I can make a living.
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It was a great high school baseball game. It was two good pitchers who battled and got out of trouble. Fortunately, we got the last big hit.
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It's to the point where the money I'd spend getting down there, it's not really worth it.
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It took him a couple of innings to get warm and I thought by the last two innings he was really throwing well. After we got down we needed him to get us going and he did that.
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I knew that errors were going to be the key to this game. They had three errors and we only had two and that was really big.
We wanted to be in retail, and now we've got 870 stores, so we're really in retail,