The December value of the LEI injects uncertainty about the middle of 2006.

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The categories revealing declines are not surprising, reflecting the discounting by retailers that routinely occurs during the later stages of the holiday season.

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We anticipate several hundred new jobs in Greensboro over the next few years.

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To say that there are different rules that would somehow apply, that the standards we use in other times are only 97 percent and now we're going for 100 percent, that's not a shading that I'm willing to participate in.

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Even after adjusting for seasonality, the rate has fallen every month since June of last year.

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The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down.

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I'm shocked, there's nothing to justify the prices we're paying before Katrina, however there's a little more to justify the prices we're paying now.

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In the mainframe world, contracts state that if I go out and trade my IBM mainframe for one that's twice as fast, then I have to go back to the vendor of the software and pay more money, ... Companies like BMC and CA have done very nicely over the last 10 years, and certainly over the last 5 years, when MIPS growth was just outrageous.

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One, the oil pipeline is restored. Two, consumers quit buying gas as if there's a gas shortage.

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