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The staff from DOT met with the governor today to lay out some details on the decision of an operating bridge as opposed to a fixed span.

Dwayne Brown

The operating numbers were not as good as advertised.

Andrew Neff

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

If I had my preference, we'd wait until the end of the [school] year to look at the impact. We're operating with no information in the face of legislation against the association.

Steve Timko

With a business system operating in nearly 200 countries, we are not immune to the economic difficulties that currently exist in many markets around the world.

M. Douglas Ivester

In New Mexico this year, we have no ski areas operating on natural snow.

Ron Curry

Those strategic advances, however, are being made in the context of a difficult operating environment marked by dramatic raw material cost increases that have significantly depressed near- term gross margins.

Patrick Wang

This is more complicated than it looks on the surface, ... We can't just say to an agency, 'Yes you're approved and then we're going to snatch a contract away from you,' without us reviewing how well they are operating.

Charles Johnson

We believed we were operating within the system, but we recognize the confusion of the process.

Lara Ramsburg

That has kept us operating.

Danielle Verney

They asked us to go back to the government and seek better conditions. We will not resume until we have a satisfactory set of operating conditions agreed with the government.

Gerald Bourke

At the very least, we are now operating on a more level playing field.

Bob Young

They're operating in the low 40s. Eight to 15 points make a tremendous amount of difference to the bottom line. When they look at a bank that may be in the low 50s, they've got some room to wiggle.

Don Morrison

We're operating snowplows in St. John's 24 hours a day. I don't why we couldn't do that on the main highway in our province.

Gerry Reid

She pushed the dog in the chair into the operating room and performed surgery in the middle of the night. And this was a heavy dog.

Candi Coursens

Our dilemma is that our operating budget is less than 3 percent, which is indicative of several cuts that were already at zero.

Natalie Pukas

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Neal Stephenson

Operating expenditures are expected to increase substantially over revenue.

Paul Stauder

To maintain public confidence in its operating system, Jobs & Co. should consider hiring a security czar.

Arik Hesseldahl

The guy goes into surgery on a Monday, and he can't think it's just another day, because it's a lot more important than that to the guy he's operating on, ... That's the way I feel going to the ballpark. I've never felt, in 35 years, that I could relax and do this job.

Bruce Froemming

We will continue to report these emissions to the state, as required by our operating permit.

Tom Mcdaniel

As far as operating income goes, we hope to report a positive result this year, but the market is not helping us. It's a challenge.

Serge Tchuruk

As we're operating on older and sicker patients, we've got to pay attention to the harm surgery might do to their quality of life. Almost nothing is more devastating than losing mental abilities.

Mark Newman

This is a property levy that will be 10.3-mills operating levy on the ballot. But it's actually replacing a 5-mill levy that expiring this year.

Larry Jenkins

It was standard operating procedure.

David Delainey

The departure of Mr. Miller will open the door for creating shareholder value through further changes and operating improvements at the company.

Matt Miksic

Unlike RISC systems, Itanium allows a broad choice of operating systems, software and hardware.

Shannon Poulin

The recent deterioration in operating trends and our investment in transforming the business will see earnings fall in the near term.

Sol Trujillo

Single-handedly wrote an operating system.

Open Source

Obviously there will have to be operating cost dollars provided, because we wouldn't build them to see them sit idle.

Iris Evans

Our plans are to keep it completely as a golf course. We've put in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into the course, and for the last year and a half we've been operating it successfully as a golf course.

Glenn Kaplan

Our mines are among the safest in the country, so we are not operating from the perspective of having to do something precipitous.

George Ellis

December's usual inventory write-offs and increased marketing costs led the operating profit margin to fall to 8 pct from 11 pct a quarter earlier.

Chu Woo Sik

The operating schedule is a collective decision based on a monstrous review a couple years back.

Bob Griffin

We continue to expect significant operating growth in fiscal year 2000.

Thomas Ryder

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Jay Kim

It comes out of your general operating fund.

Pam Harmon

I want to make it very clear to everyone that this tax cannot be used for operating, it is only to build infrastructure.

Annabeth Surbaugh

We can cover our operating expenses without the revenue from UH and we have a cushion. Notwithstanding a total disaster, these projections should hold.

Howard Ikeda

The Coast Guard has a long history of operating jointly with the Department of Defense forces in matters of national security.

James Hull

On top of taxes and operating costs, you're hit with charges from credit card companies that might be 2 or 3 percent per purchase. That can hurt, especially if you're not sure how much more you're going to pay the next day.

Chuck Olsen

We're operating on a shoestring.

Don Crosby

Historically, big banks are a mirror from a growth perspective of the economies in which they are operating.

Craig Woker

Once again (Comcast) achieved double-digit (operating cash flow) growth and that's a big plus in a sluggish economy.

Jim Boyle

These are very complementary assets. I don't see there being any competitive issues given the different areas in which they are operating.

Robert Gee

That will impact our operating income.

Tom Schoewe

The global operating environment has been extremely positive, especially for companies in the technology sector. Earnings aren't disappointing.

Christopher Wong

We just started a new project to look at how faith-based programs are operating, how effective they are and whether they are complying with the Constitution.

Jeremy Gunn

I'd like to see them build a new operating system from the ground up that's much simpler and smaller.

Michael Cusumano

Given the challenging operating environment this effort has served us particularly well.

James Cayne

Globe has developed a stable operating platform and is generating sound credit metrics.

Charles Macgregor

We expect our U.S. Books, Music and DVD/Video segment to be profitable on a pro forma operating basis for the full year 2000.

Warren Jenson

There has to be operating standards for every facet of the operation, it's not that they're mysterious. The university never mandated that they be here. And that will stop.

Michael Coleman

We have a pretty expensive building here. Our cost of operating the building remains pretty level throughout the year.

Larry Fletcher

Currently, these operating results are not reflective of where we want to be.

Paul Curlander

We are operating in a manner that we unfortunately must do, under the circumstances.

Alan Mccoy

We are committed to continued expense management and strategies to improve productivity in 2006. Execution in these two important areas should contribute to the achievement of our goal of improving operating margins by 50 to 150 basis points for the year.

Martin P. Hughes

The county administrator is the chief operating person for the county and I am that for the city, ... We have dozens and dozens of issues that we're working on at all times.

Patrick Baker

We are fully co-operating with the league and certainly will be meeting with them. We haven't met with them yet. I'm not going to discuss the exact time or date or place.

Kevin Marino

There are some risks and challenges. As they expand internationally, their costs are going to go up. So we'll still see that top-line growth, but we'll see some pinch there on the costs and the operating margins.

Denise Garcia

It creates a combined company with one million ounces of annual production, low operating costs and near-term growth that should be attractive to all investors in the gold sector.

Joseph Conway

I think we will eventually need to have an operating budget referendum but the problem is I don't think voters will go for it until we've changed how we handle the budget that we have.

Lucy Mathiak

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working.

Patricia Myers

The shares are dropping despite good results because the outlook for the operating profit is extremely conservative.

Christian Schindler

The businesses in this area are very good about supporting our efforts because it benefits them as well as us. Their contributions are very important because our annual operating costs are between $100,000 and $150,000.

David Hull

That's an operating expense, and we always treat it as an operating expense no matter how it is reported.

Liz Sweeney

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett

It looks like the rest of the system is operating well.

Laura Brown

We have no answers in the can. It is one of the big, hairy unknowns about what you do about federal-state relations – when you are operating under state control, when you are operating under federal control.

Rhett Dawson

Historically, risk is much higher with Windows operating systems than Unix/Linux. How can I say that, look at all the major attacks. Which ones had the greatest likelihood and impact for 2005? Windows hands down.

Ken Dunham

Time could be wasted when (the individuals operating the AED) are getting machine hooked up, when the individual doesn't need an AED.

Jeff Pacheco

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

Patrick Collins

Our fiscal year ends June 30, and the art auction is to help us finish out our operating expenses for the fiscal year.

John Starnes

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Robert Benchley

We want to look at how they're operating, if they should be operating at those locations or developing the parcels for facilities and utilities.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The ability to move these forces around more agilely, more rapidly, is the way that we will be operating in the future.

Adm. Gary Roughead

Microsoft's response is not at all unexpected. We continue to believe that a breakup of this company is arbitrary, given the increasingly blurred line between application and operating systems. We believe that the company should win on appeal.

Joseph Farley

There's a lot of folks out there who can now look at OS X and start to think about building their UNIX applications for the operating system.

Ron Okamoto

It's important for folks to know that the annual fares we receive only equal about 6 percent of our overall operating budget.

Chuck Kidwell

If we had the timber supply we had in the past we'd be operating with full employment like we had in the past and there would be no change in our operations.

Dennis Scott

With the economy operating at close to full capacity, it's important that the Fed be vigilant about the possibility of some acceleration in inflation.

Alfred Broaddus

The interesting thing there, though, is that they did cut back on sales of lower margin phones. That helped them get the higher operating margin, but it did cost them some revenue.

Pete Peterson

Market demand in 2002 is expected to be generally flat compared with the previous year in both Europe and North America, ... The group should achieve an improvement in operating income and value creation for the full year 2002, excluding items affecting comparability.

Michael Treschow

We are keeping the plant running by operating with fewer people.

Marybeth Thorsgaard

At yesterday's meeting, management expressed confidence that operating margins in the computing systems segment should double in six to nine months.

Richard Chu

We're one of the fortunate towns that are growing, and that's providing (additional) operating funds ....

John Dowd

The company reported this incident to the authorities and has been co-operating fully with health officials.

Michael York

For the full year, we expect to achieve a good increase in both operating profit before exceptional items and adjusted earnings per share, the two measures of our financial progress.

Martin Broughton

Not plausible unless the company has problems operating, which doesn't appear to be the case at this point.

John Fossum

They had encouraging operating numbers. Their lower cost guidance was also good.

Ian Synnott

Results missed our estimate of $5.07, reflecting higher operating costs than we expected and lower throughputs than expected.

Tina Vital

Families are being absolutely crushed by the cost of operating their cars right now, from the skyrocketing price of gas to the high cost of auto insurance, ... We've done our work, and the numbers are clear.

Thomas Reilly

The acquisition of LCI International was completed in just 88 days, and the integration of the two companies is progressing very well, with operating and capital synergies expected to be better than originally announced.

Robert Woodruff

The impact on the economy is that unemployment will increase and maybe commercial banks will face a difficult operating situation. It's a risk to our economy.

Tang Xu

I'm confident that an emphasis on growth and profitability, supported by our new operating structure, will allow us to exit our next fiscal year having achieved a number of important goals.

David Wetherell

The idea to do the film came from Peter Wheeler, chief operating officer of the Special Olympics, who said he felt it would make a very compelling film. He and Charlie flew over in May 2003 to investigate. Charlie then called me at 4 a.m. one night to say we had to go back to make that film.

Kip Kroeger

We are operating on a shoe-string budget as a community theatre and need funding.

Marcia Williams

Here was an actual functioning operating system, and it worked.

Peter Salus

As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, Ford is the ideal company to bring both technologies together for the first time.

Anne Stevens

We've bumped up operating shock tolerance from 250Gs to 350Gs, and non- operating shock is 900Gs.

Joni Clark

It's not something that's unique to McGill; it is out there. And in order for us to ensure that we have a climate of mutual respect and understanding operating in all our activities, we have to be much more pro-active.

Jennifer Robinson

Yes. You have to look at fixed costs and the efficiency of operating systems there are what is behind this $150,000. This money now is basically for cash flows.

Richard Bracken

For business users, bringing on new equipment, much like changing operating systems, has to be because there's a demonstrated need.

Michael Silver

If you look at the overall Internet, there is a mix of operating systems.

Dan Kuznetsky

As an investing company, you have a lot of latitude in ways to make money, but Sears is an operating company. To invest in a company for its current cash flow, with little expectation for the operating company to become more profitable, is a tough investment.

Brian Hamilton

Windows get more viruses than Macs and UNIX systems, yes, but Macs are not immune. That's just a fundamental design issue in the operating systems.

Robin Anderson

He's forcing students to sell things. The bottom line is that they are operating a for-profit business.

Bill Grant

The back-office stuff has happened. Everything else is going fine and is on schedule. But until we complete the conversion, we are still operating as Bank One and Chase.

Chris Spencer

On some days, the plant has been operating at a full load. The steam you see is normal.

Art Larson

The numbers were really bad at the operating level, especially for the core television business.

Felix Boni

There's already a law in place for speed limits, and that's a safe operating speed. It (a speed limit) doesn't solve a darn thing. We just knew it was a Band-Aid fix to a much larger problem.

Jim Marsh

There has been a glaring lack of entry and exit protocols both before and after 9/11. It's hard for me to imagine other industrialized nations operating any differently.

John Keeley

Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice.

Chris Mckay

It's not specific to any operating system but has to do with larger hard drive caches in combination with fast processors.

Greg Sullivan

There are very few of us independent mills still operating, ... Our opportunities to grow were limited.

Joe Crawford

Given how close to the margin we've been operating, I think it would be prudent to avoid the expense and conduct the search ourselves.

Dave Martin

We are taking this step so that short of a full effort, investors and broker/dealers will know that they are operating in a regulated environment.

Frank Zarb

It moves cost from capital expense that needs to be depreciated to the operating budget, so it's easier to budget for.

Peter Firstbrook

Security is becoming integrated into a lot of operating systems and network infrastructure.

Michael Rasmussen

As far as I'm concerned, they were a complete competitor to the operating system.

Jim Allchin

US forces are still detaining people without charge indefinitely in operating bases.

Sam Zarifi

At this time of year, we're usually operating at 90 percent.

Linda Todd

I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a part of the community.

Alan Aiken

I'm sure she was operating in entirely good faith.

Paul Johansen

It's amazing what they are doing to try to stop Scottsdale from operating this type of program.

Mayor Mary Manross

We are still delivering to the Dallas market from our product storage in Greenville and will keep operating until Monday morning.

Tom Jensen

This is something that is not inherent in the operating system.

Alain Sergile

We recognize that and are operating the business in a distinct way.

Chris Stevens

We have to boost our core services such as fire, police and trash collection. Operating a zoo is a business we can no longer be in.

James Canning

We're operating very close to the conservative end of undersea habitation. The challenges go up exponentially as you go deeper.

Marc Reagan

The operating earnings were disappointing. Everyone (in the industry) is faced with much higher costs than expected.

William Leach

They have made great improvement in their operating profitability. Their operating cost structure is in much better shape.

Stefan Rheinwald

The leadership of both houses of Congress are now operating under a cloud of scandal, impropriety, and the possibility of illegality.

Marty Meehan

We're operating as usual. We are very determined. Robin is very organized and is doing the job well.

Helen Randall

Those were usually cuts and scrapes from debris flying while operating the chain saw.

Linda Todd

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Andreas Scheuerle

Investors can be assured that the company is financially sound and focused on improving our longer-term operating performance.

Bob Rossiter

This is a further important step in putting these matters behind us and focusing our full attention on the strategic and operating initiatives that we have undertaken to grow our businesses.

David Dyer

We'll also beef up our software development capability because software is essential for operating digital consumer electronics. We are now far short of the software engineers we need.

Ryoji Chubachi

Things just started to spread. They damaged a news vehicle in front of the vehicle I was operating; then they moved their way to my vehicle.

Dennis Richardson

Open collaboration is critical for driving innovation, which fuels global economic growth. Impediments to collaboration on the Linux operating system seriously jeopardize innovation.

Open Source

Microsoft is not going to establish a chokehold on the information appliances industry. These appliances don't need a standardized operating system the way PCs do. In many cases, the consumer will have no idea what the operating system is, since it's meant to be completely hidden.

Kevin Hause

Taiwan is operating at about 50 percent capacity on average, ... My first worries concern a shortage of graphics chipsets.

Danny Lam

Operating results were below our expectations.

Jon Langenfeld

In the past several months, the oil industry has been faced with a deteriorating operating environment, ... We don't anticipate margin improvements in the near term, therefore we are adjusting our plans accordingly.

Wayne Allen

There hasn't been an awful lot of transmission infrastructure built in the state since the 1970s. We have a very constrained system that's really operating at its limits.

Jackie Olson

It may have ceased operating very shortly after its deployment.

Rob Navias

As a rental, [The Carlisle] was a huge failure, operating at a significant cash loss.

Bill Meyer

So we're kind of waiting, too, to see what is expected and what's needed of us. Our primary concern now, operating as an Emergency Operations Center, is to help the evacuees we have.

Buddy Rogers

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

Koichi Ogawa

You know all those extra lines of code that we sometimes refer to as bloatware. It's actually very important and efficient stuff. There is some very substantial functionality built into the operating system.

Laura Didio

That doesn't exist right now. These folks are really operating on their own, trying every day to make a buck.

David Knowles

This airplane, I believe, will be a superb machine for operating with the airlines in terms of its economy, ... To match (the 7E7), the competition is really going to have to stretch out.

Peter Gardner

Net-net, the change is expected to boost earnings on a continued operating basis.

Alan Rifkin

Financial and operating results are not where they need to be, but we believe we have turned the corner on profitability.

Dick Davidson

In point of fact, one of the carriers that will be operating in the Pacific is an Atlantic Fleet carrier. That has not been done in a long time.

Adm. Gary Roughead

I had unbelievable credibility as a hedge fund manager (at Cramer Berkowitz), but who cares? If I'm obstreperous, funny, I'm bringing people in, not turning them off. My industry has been operating through mystification and confusion. Fie on us. I'm having a darn good time.

Jim Cramer

We were operating with two (of three) runways after this crash, and that added to the slowdown.

Laura White

As chief executive of a global company he has wide experience of operating successfully in different international markets. He also has a comprehensive understanding of financial services from his previous directorship of a major bank.

George Mathewson

Each of our client operating groups enjoyed solid increases in net income, with business volumes up year-over-year.

Tony Comper

The actual operating loss narrowed by 6 billion yen because of a sales gain, signaling an improvement in operating conditions.

Hiroshi Sato

Inventory levels throughout the chain remain low, operating rates are high, and fundamental demand continues to build.

Jeffrey Lipton

We are learning about Hong Kong's laws, regulations, and company operating practices. Only after we are familiar with these can we do business there.

Jiang Changwu

You've got good solid operating results in this quarter.

Bruce Rohde

That would increase unemployment and hurt our economy, and commercial banks could also face a difficult operating environment.

Tang Xu

I couldn't have hoped for anything better. This has been a true blessing to have all these students here and have everyone co-operating.

Christine Mitchell

I can imagine an operating system that some day does a better job storing your data, using (a) network.

Marissa Mayer

There are no standards for the handsets. There are 10 different kinds of transmissions, 20 operating systems and even more processors.

Dan Kranzler

It's not related to operating reserves. It is a transmission emergency.

Stephanie Mccorkle

We're going to make sure (our vans) are operating in a safe way and according to the guidelines (provided by the NHTSA).

Frank Butler

We'll continue to operate as we've been operating. We've been issuing marriage licenses according to Massachusetts law. A couple would just simply have to state their intention to reside in Massachusetts for us to issue the license.

Doug Johnstone

The company deserves the premium to its peers given its consistent performance, operating leverage, margin expansion opportunities and growth drivers going forward.

Michelle Gutierrez

We will need community support to keep operating.

Alex Wheeler

There is no doubt that the operating environment won't get any easier for (general retailers) next year. Supermarkets continue their onward march into the sector.

Jeremy Batstone

We're under tremendous scrutiny from the environmental community and operating under a supplemental Environmental Assessment. We need to be careful.

Stacy Hephner

Where the disruption will be is where they're living in an area where none of the retailers are operating.

Wade Horn

He will not be operating a Green Line trolley for an indefinite period of time.

Joe Pesaturo

The Social Fund was designed to help the most vulnerable people at the time of greatest need meet the costs of things like cookers, cots and funerals, but it is not operating as well as it should be.

Kate Green

It's just a question of who would be managing and operating that school bus.

Phil Roeder

Expanding operating profitability in the future will continue to remain a priority focus.

Serge Tchuruk

3 Italia is not experiencing the same negative operating performance or outlook as incumbent mobile operators in Italy and Europe.

Canning Fok

The outlook for the year remains unchanged, which means that the group should achieve an improvement in operating income.

Michael Treschow

We achieved excellent operating leverage at our plants as a result of the combination of this strong demand and favorable weather.

Don James

We're optimistic (higher gas prices) won't affect people's interest in skiing, ... but it will affect our operating costs.

Tracy Miller

So far, so good. My boys are playing great and, fortunately, the other teams are co-operating against us. I feel really good right now.

Glenn Howard

In reality, we're not planning on doing anything differently, ... We are going to continue operating as if all kids need to pass the test.

Jack O'connell

We don't expect our operations to be impacted. We're operating routinely.

Jacquie Young

We found that the airport was operating properly and up to standards, and that's still accurate today.

Jim Peters

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Inder Singh

If he were out there moving around, operating in a significant way, there would probably be some sign of it.

Ryan Crocker

We will be operating business as usual. There is no change for our 2006 plans, on the business or baseball side.

Greg Hughes

We'd like to let anybody run any operating system (OS) on any machine. You'll be able to buy any application you want and not worry what OS it runs on.

Diane Greene

Strict adherence to the company's operating manual.

John Findlay

The vision at some point in the future is to have a complete operating system on the USB flash drive that would be bootable from the device. You could bring your computing environment with you -- your operating system, data and applications.

Steffen Hellmold

The issue here is we haven't been operating a reliable airline. We have been working as hard as we possibly could to figure out what the issues were and to get them addressed.

Doug Parker

I am hopeful it will be a normal working day. Our tanker drivers will be operating as normal.

Chris Hunt

But you need a good something else, and Linux is a good something else. I predict Linux will grow even faster than NT. We will have real competition at the operating system level and that is good for everyone.

John Paul

I can leave knowing that this school is operating smoothly.

Brenda Griffin

We have many conservation (trusts) that are operating exactly as they should be.

Jane Hendron

It'll have an overall affect on our operating budget. It will affect the things we are able to do.

Jim Rear