The economic indicators continue to feed the bull market that we've been enjoying for the last couple of years. Inflation is reasonably mild and under control, the consumer is in great shape and continues to spend -- we don't think everything is going to be in a straight-up fashion, but the underlying fundamentals that are positive for equity markets are still very much intact in the U.S.

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She worked well, and we're planning on running (in the Distaff,) ... She had a major excuse in the Beldame because of a reoccurring breathing problem. We think we've got it corrected. She didn't have surgery; we treated it with antibiotics.

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We expect maybe 50 basis points of Fed fund increases between now and December. The market is pricing in 100 percent probability of that happening.

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In traditional voice systems, you can fix 40% to 50% of the problems remotely. On the data side, you can do 80%. Voice is still very people intensive, and people are the most expensive element of the network environment.

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We've got relatives from the South here who have been trekking in since last week. It's going to be kind of fun if they bring some of that New Orleans cooking with them.

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There are multiple factors influencing bond prices right now, not the least of which is the uncertainty about what the Fed is going to do going forward.

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Effective April 19, 2000, black employees around the world will stop buying Coca-Cola.

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Nortel and its channel make more money on the upkeep of existing PBX customers than they do on selling new switches, so they hardly want to walk away from the old infrastructure ... That's why most of the people who are pushing convergence are on the IP side.

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