The opportunity to continue to play such a significant role on behalf of Petrobras in the Campos Basin and Espirito Santos regions is extremely gratifying. It is heartening to see that the quality of our service and engineering expertise has contributed to the positive working relationship we share with Petrobras.

We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.

There are reports of numerous casualties. It appears the freight train hit the vehicle (which had come off a motorway bridge), which then ploughed onto an adjoining line and was in collision with the passenger train.

We not only look at individual students, we also look at daily objectives.

We're quite pleased with most of the areas that the kids tested in. We made our goals that we set at the beginning of (last) year. Each teacher has to set a goal for each one of their students for improvement, and most of them were satisfied with how they did.

You can't put a price on a life. If it's not broke, don't fix it.

These are very desperate conditions that we're in now. These are the wrong conditions for the use of fireworks of any kind under any circumstances.

I'd like to see it happen for them; I just think its going to take a little while to get the clientele built up.