We are extremely disappointed with our fourth-quarter operating and financial performance. We have let down our customers, our shareholders and, not least of all, our employees.

Dick Davidson

The global and Canadian economies have continued to grow at a solid pace, and our economy now appears to be operating at full production capacity.

David Dodge

Given the way the national board has been operating, it is not surprising that these are the results, ... We will not accept it. We will challenge it in court.

Berhanu Nega

We are operating in a more urban environment than we were 20 years ago. And, people have more transit demands than they did then.

Sandy Modell

For every dollar spent on IT equipment, $3 to $4 is spent on operating it.

Andrew Fanara

Both parties dissolved the agreement, ... It was never in the operating budget.

Bill Atkinson

Our goal is to standardize our network, regardless of which operating system we select.

Marci Flores

Price pressures were fairly mild, despite the economy operating flat out.

Sal Guatieri

There's nothing that stops a member of organized criminal groups from operating a tow truck. We say that that's not acceptable.

Peter Kormos

Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?'

Larry Augustin

The bank of Canada is operating textbook econ 101 here in hiking rates in anticipation of inflation going higher 12-16 months in the future, because we're operating at full capacity right now in Canada and it looks like we're going to continue.

John Anania

I considered it a presidential directive to get those pipelines operating.

Jim Compton

I am confident that we can execute our plans successfully and achieve the objective of about £2bn revenue and EBITDA of about 400m, sufficient to deliver a double-digit operating margin.

John Pluthero

It's been a good period for them with a continuation of steady growth in revenue and operating profit.

Rob Mercer

Operating in bubble markets.

James Grant

Essentially all of the upside came from non-operating earnings that were better than Intel had indicated it would see.

Joseph Osha

Canadians, cabinet ministers, Parliamentarians - they want their CBC to be operating.

Joe Fontana

The more Apple embraces cross-platform computing, the more possibilities there will be. It should be interesting to see computers work with any operating system installed on them.

Jon Cutler

I've told the shelter board to use the funds as they see fit, as this is the most difficult time of year for their daily operating budget.

Mary Becker

We need the money now or we will be forced to scale down food deliveries. So far, we have been operating on reserves, and borrowing ... and the pipeline is drying up.

Jan Vandemoortele

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

Jim Allchin

We now expect to achieve positive operating profits during the second half of this financial year.

William Allan

Oracle 8i is designed to be an Internet operating system.

Mark Jarvis

These soldiers were operating and fighting alongside Afghan National Security Forces.

Jason Kamiya

In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent.

Larry Augustin

We have our own police force, harbor patrol, customs officers, and Coast Guard. That won't change no matter who is operating the terminal.

Chris Bonura

This person wants to write off business expenses before the business is operating, and he cannot do that.

Bill Steiner

I like Boeing, which people forget is actually a defense stock, ... I think the defense industry in general is an industry that has gone through its boon, its bust, its consolidation, and there's an enormous amount of operating leverage now at the bottom line.

Francis Gannon

In the last two years, Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has reached more than 500 cities and operating from more than 5,000 terminals in the country.

Joseph Massey

To continue to conserve on operating expenses, we are reducing the overall number of flights as well as service to these four markets.

Rick Delisi

A multinational company operating in Canada will have to have dozens and dozens of contracts with everybody who supplies them with any personal information, including their own subsidiaries.

David Aaron

Actually, the operating revenues have been declining over the years because of the increasing costs and operating expenses.

James Berg

(He) must have been a very strange and brilliant man. He ... created a new way of operating a society that lasted for another 500 years.

Bruno Heller

Operating with one hand behind our back.

Robert Herzfeld

I think their operating margin could be down a half-percentage point through calendar 2007.

Stephen East

These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not one cent, is going to (beds in the shelter).

Vicki Lutz

The Polo Jeans license imposed certain operating restrictions on Jones Apparel, including the sale of certain competing product.

Peter Boneparth

We're operating in primitive conditions. The size and scope is bigger than anything we've ever seen.

Julie Rochman

The migration to GSM has its roots in the company's owners and in the fact that they are operating GSM in almost all the countries where they are present.

Roberto Gurovich

Disney's operating momentum is still the best of all the large entertainment conglomerates.

Katherine Styponias

Palm has been stuck with this ancient operating system. They had no choice but to modernize.

Todd Kort

If you look at the operational environment in which we're now operating and the one we think we'll be operating in the future, we think that is not where we should put our focus.

Les Brownlee

We do not encourage people to have video screens operating where the driver can see them.

Chris Watson

What is really happening is every nation is going off and doing what they would have done anyway under the umbrella of Kyoto, but operating unilaterally.

David Victor

Sun is getting a proven enterprise-class directory built into the operating system - it's a strong direction.

Gary Rowe

NDS allows you to get away from the NT vs. NetWare vs. Unix argument and select the operating system that is best suited to each need.

Chris Miller

It will help us reduce our operating cost for the arsenal; it expands our employment base here and reinforces our role as the only government-owned chemical and biological defense arsenal.

Larry Wright

The business is doing better and the performance is strong and the flows are improving, but you've got negative operating leverage.

Richard Grubman

We'll make sure that its operating safely, venting properly and as efficient as it can possibly be.

Charlie Richardson

For fiscal year 2006 we expect further sales growth and another improvement of our operating profit.

Manfred Wennemer

We're getting a lot less religious about the operating system to find the areas where we can grow.

Andy Bechtolsheim

The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviously the system as it's operating is now is badly broken, ... but by and large, anti-terrorism is a different endeavor.

Doris Meissner

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable.

Andrea Williams

There are no terrorists' cells actively operating in Malaysia as far as the government is concerned.

Najib Tun Razak

We're not the little utility we used to be, ... We probably need to do a better job in staffing and operating our facilities.

Bruce Kennedy

Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place to go.

Dr. John Kirklin

In some cases, customers focus on the operating system as the decision point, and that then drives hardware and applications. But in most cases the application is king.

John Enck

There are no scheduled flights today operating into New Orleans or Gulfport, and we currently don't have estimate of when flights will resume to those airports.

Julie King

Linux wasn't the mover back then that it is now. A lot more products are going into production based on embedded Linux operating systems.

Greg Rose

John was tremendous. I always thought he was a very, very good businessman. He was community minded, and if there was anyway he could keep that mill operating, he did.

Preston Hill

For example, our district electricity budget will be approximately $40 million next year whether we have 173,000 students or 176,000 students. However, 3,000 less students could reduce annual operating revenues by $18 million.

Mike Burke

ARMPAC is operating within the law.

Carolyn Hern

I get a lot of satisfaction operating on patients who have lost a lot of weight such as Mary. I can see how it makes a great change in their lives.

Dr. Phillipe Capraro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Stephen Gengaro

This is a fantastic deal. There are virtually no operating expenses for Playboy. They are just giving out their name.

David Bank

At the operating level, I think it's very possible.

Lisa Spicer

Roughly consistent with an economy operating at potential.

Michael Moskow

When you're on that operating table, knowing they're about to cut you open and work on your heart, you realize that basketball isn't really the most important thing in the world.

Norris Ashley

The rig is operating 24 hours per day, seven days per week, until we get down to our total depth.

William Henderson

We think this company more than most would be leveraged to an improvement in market conditions and lower rates. Market activity comes back this company has a lot of operating leverage and it should show through on the bottom line.

Chip Dickson

Based on the budget we were looking at, this levy will be used for the operating budget, salaries, repairs and maintenance, no capital improvements.

Wade Estep

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

Al Gillen

We are continuing to experience a normal operating day.

Jennifer Bagdade

ConAgra Foods has a number of great brands and businesses to drive future growth. We will build on those strengths by coupling disciplined investments in well-positioned brands with a more streamlined operating structure.

Gary Rodkin

We don't count on the booth money for our operating budget, but it always funds one of our major projects.

George Sholl

He said, 'I was shot.' It was clear we had to go into the operating room.

Dr. Leon Pachter

I don't think you can be a global company unless you commit to operating on some level of a global basis.

Terry Growcock

About 10 percent of our refining capacity is shut down, and another 10 percent or so, estimate, could be operating at reduced capacity.

Sara Banaszak

We have no operating benefit from the dam. We understand there's a responsibility to keep the dam operating, and we've actually invested a lot of money in doing that.

Paul Callighan

Disciplined execution of our growth and operating strategies is driving consistent improvement in a range of key metrics, including customer counts, average revenue per customer, total revenue, and churn.

Neil Smit

The goal is to have the facility paying for itself as far as operating costs, and it's looking more and more possible.

Carol Patterson

Interestingly, it sort of raises some of the issues about Microsoft bundling features into the operating system, which of course has been core to the whole antitrust issue.

Dwight Davis

Like any investigation that is going on, there has to be peer-to-peer cooperation. We are talking about organized criminals operating on an international plain.

Neil Schwartzman

Thus, if the consumer business were to be sold, or perhaps restructured into a JV contributing below Pfizer's operating line, it would likely have the effect of increasing gross margins and operating margins.

Anthony Butler

That sudden drop where air carriers are operating could lead to a serious safety issue.

Jim Timm

Every dollar that you put onto the oil price, you're putting at least a dollar an ounce into the operating costs.

Victor Flores

The impact of lean initiative has been our operating margins have improved ... and defects have gone down.

Robert Bohn

Our sales growth in the quarter reflected the Amana acquisition and strong sales of higher-margin major appliances, ... That favorable sales mix improved operating income.

Ralph Hake

Today marks the start of a renewed effort to deliver our goal of a 10 percent operating margin.

Willie Walsh

We do have a rough idea of the area that he is operating from. And if he comes across our troops, they will try and arraign him.

Kemal Saiki

Stop the run and make them pass. That is how we are operating on defense right now.

Anthony Spencer

They (operating companies) are better financed, better able to grow, and they don't need to continually access external capital to complete acquisition plans.

Mike Winer

The pool has seen dramatically declining use since the mid-1990s. We've been operating in the red, but fewer people are coming each year.

Paul Gilbert

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Michael Porter

The generator is not operating and the hospital has no electricity.

Motsamai Moloi

There's no basis for a lawsuit, and you can't stop someone from operating in Hawaii. I don't think this is going to slow us down. It's definitely motivated me.

Jonathan Ornstein

We are co-operating with the investigation.

Yuko Takahashi

I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button. But there is an acute recognition of the grim environment that both parties are operating in.

Rich Bond

We are operating under the assumption that they will extend.

Jay Dawson

So you need to be careful and have very good operating plans for the companies that you buy.

Stephen Schwarzman

If the money wasn't going into the stadium fund, there would just be a general-fund payment into the operating fund, ... The bills need to be paid.

William Griffith

In this particular incidence involving a motorcycle with a sidecar, we believe he was operating under the law.

Bob Martinez

Philosophically, what you don't ever want government to do is to put legally operating businesses out of business. That's not the proper role of government.

Rick Kidder

Currently there is no redistribution of the Windows Server operating system.

James Ni

Amtrak could break from some dependence on federal funds by adding freight cars or operating high-speed lines from Chicago to St.

Jerry Weller

It's something any operating system vendor has to have.

Serguei Beloussov

We're currently discussing that. It would be great to have, but we would like someone else to run that. We're good at operating a theater, so we'll leave that to someone that's good at running an inn.

Kate Taylor

To avoid bankruptcy, GM needs to see Delphi get restructured and operating in a manner that would not disrupt their supplies and operations. How they address that is a key hurdle.

Brian Ropp

They have begun breaking the seals. They are going to break all the seals and begin operating the plant in full.

Mark Gwozdecky

Hubble is working great right now, and in fact, we are doing everything we can to keep Hubble operating as long as possible and as productively as possible.

Jennifer Wiseman

They've come in a bit ahead of our forecasts ... on the operating profit and adjusted earnings figures.

Neil Clifford

It's a hotel chain, but they don't have hotel people operating the coal business.

William Marks

Beyond the many cosmetic changes, we've re-configured the restaurant to provide a better use of the space, which contributes to improved operating efficiencies as well as enhanced customer service.

Jeff Powell

In most instances, the retail location doesn't own the equipment that's operating there. That's owned by a retail operator and there are private contracts between those companies.

Mary Neubauer

This is a killer for customers of Office 97. They have had this policy for their operating systems, but I would say it was never clearly documented to the majority of their Office customers.

Neil Macdonald

This year has the potential to be No. 1 for operating revenues and profits.

John Christison

I can understand building an open-source operating system.

Denis Pombriant

This was one of the first 'wow' papers. Almost immediately, people started calling up asking if they could get copies of this new operating system.

Peter Salus

Harlequin stabilized its operating profit in 2005 after experiencing a significant decline in profits in 2004.

Robert Prichard

Supply chain has to be important all the way up to the chief operating officer and chief financial officer level, because the way a company brings a product to market is on average as important as the product that they bring.

Dan Hawthoff

Our opening date isn't etched in stone, but we're operating under the assumption that it will be around then.

Stephanie Slight

We immediately decided to take her to the hospital. We haven't heard from her since, but the doctor said the appendicitis was diagnosed in time to keep her from the operating table. He said that medicine should do the rest of the job.

Nicolas Gill

I am encouraged that second-quarter operating earnings, although down from year-ago levels, were more than six times higher than in the first quarter.

Jim Mulva

We buy the components and do the assembly ourselves, which lowers costs. AMD fit in well within that way of operating.

Robert Miggins

The key difference is that a facility's operating costs are no longer directly tied to the revenues, ... Now, your revenues are driven by the services you are providing.

Charles Lynch

They've been operating city hall from the library since I was elected.

Paul Farris

Lear has a lot of operating issues that they still have to resolve. I can't see much upside in this credit at current levels.

Gregg Klein

The group's excellent operating performance is the fruit of a clear strategy in all our energy and environment businesses.

Gerard Mestrallet

A patent commons allows IT industry to add value above the operating system.

Stacey Quandt

We call this the operating table.

Randy Langhover

We're not operating at full production at this point. We are meeting commitments to the customers.

Bud Grebey

We are not suggesting 'don't buy a PC. The PC upgrade cycle will continue. But don't delay the adoption of an operating system until you get a new PC.

Don Barnetson

We want to be the operating system that integrates all these surveys and measurement tools for Fortune 500 clients.

Don Macpherson

We're used to operating lean. We try to do as best we can and be as efficient as possible.

Mary Haskell

And they were bringing the house tonight. We're extremely pleased with how we're operating.

Mike Gaston

They can't survive for another year the way they're currently operating, ... They've got to get the unions to do it (grant wage concessions.)

Jim Corridore

The forward production growth guidance of 5% is very admirable for a super oil major. Its operating profit surpasses General Electric and Microsoft.

Gordon Kwan

We are operating with what is left in the tanks of our cars.

John Ging

There are already Chinese software companies, operating in China; they are fast learners ... If there will be a large software company emerging in Asia, it is likely to emerge in China first.

Leo Apotheker

Many operating physicians have to operate blind. We have to make medical decisions not knowing what kind of medicines you take or allergies you have.

John Halamka

The Company netted positive cash flow of $15.9 million during 2005 -- after funding all of our operating needs, $20.2 million in capital expenditures, $15.0 million in pension contributions, $5.2 million in restructuring costs, and $26.6 million in dividend payments.

Dennis Rediker

The donors on the executive board expressed pretty serious concern about the operating conditions that were on offer and gave us a mandate to try and better them.

Gerald Bourke

I ended up operating a second camera just so I had something to do.

Garth Jennings

Pro-active in approaching the government to talk about converting our operating agreement to a joint venture because we felt it was the right thing to do.

Sean Rooney

The results were a bit weaker than expected, not due to its operating earnings but because the special payment was bigger than expected.

Konrad Becker

The agency was able to clear the error today and returned the satellite to normal operating condition that afternoon.

Tatsuo Oshima

Amazon looked pretty strong on sales although gross margins and operating expense were somewhat lower than expected.

Dan Geiman

We're now operating in a territory where the Mehdi Army is not used to us being.

Pat White

The Bank of China has always paid close attention to anti-laundering efforts to ensure the bank was operating according to relevant laws and regulations.

Wang Zhaowen

To break even only would have satisfied us. As one advisor said, it would be far better to invest (Challenger's operating costs) directly into social work and community projects.

Bill Butler

We have the funding to double the (park) operating budget right off the bat.

Joe Turner

With the world facing historically high crude oil prices, China's labor cost advantage becomes even more precious because no other country can control operating costs and keep them as low.

Ma Shang

There are certain sensitivities in operating in a county like Saudi Arabia. We worked closely with the Foreign Office in finding the best way to manage it and as far as we are aware there is not a major problem.

Phil Shepherd

European countries have the duty to fully collaborate in the investigations of gross human-rights violations committed on their territory. Not co-operating with those investigations is tantamount to collaborating with the abuses.

Claudio Cordone

We believe that there's a great deal of fantastic innovation that will occur above the embedded layer and below the system management layer. There's a lot of really interesting enterprise-class operating system work we believe will be appealing to OEM customers even though they may be the shipping open-source bits as a foundation layer.

Peter Levine

We are still looking for additional money. A $330,000 operating balance is not adequate.

Connie Smith

The rate increase is across the board. Programming costs continually go up, and of course our operating costs go up. It's the same things that always drive it.

Jim Perry

We are projecting operating deficits. But that doesn't mean the city is out of money. It means it is spending more than it is taking in.

Paul Stauder

The plant is not currently operating.

Gary Mickelson

It's a well-run firm. It's a good-sized commodities trader, although they now seem to be operating more like a hedge fund.

Daniel Collins

It is safe to say that the current antitrust case has major long-term implications for Microsoft's operating system plans.

Tom Bittman

Its market position in operating systems to gain an unfair advantage in the online services business.

David Colburn

Windows 2000 is the first operating system shipped worldwide with 128-bit encryption.

Graham Brant

The victims in this case included a not-for-profit corporation and a religious institution operating schools, hospitals, and convents.

Thomas Barnett

Operating profits from North America in the first six months (of its fiscal year) were up by 5.0 percent, but would have been nearer 7.0 percent if it had not been for the combined impact of the hurricanes and higher input costs.

Nick Rose

The industry has a long history of operating within certain guidelines that are acceptable. These questions need to be answered very clearly.

Ken Cook

Growth is OK, but profitability not really. Operating costs rose strongly, therefore EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) missed expectations.

Roland Egger

Eric has dramatically improved the profitability of McAfee during 2005, significantly growing net operating margin. In addition, he has significantly improved the business and financial operations of the company. We look forward to having Eric improve all company operations in his expanded role.

George Samenuk

We are all for community air service. However, we do not provide operating subsidies. Our funding is for construction activities.

Matt Vanover

Above and beyond that, the plant is operating at near or at capacity. It is outdated.

Bill Deadrick

We believe carefully managing the average age of our fleet allows us greater flexibility in addressing the cost and reliability issues involving tractor engines designed to comply with stricter emissions requirements in 2007 and generally lowers our operating expenses.

Steve Russell

But I can certainly understand why anybody operating a hospitality business would not want more competition.

John Redmond

As we see it today, we would expect the core group to deliver a combined operating ratio of around 95% in 2006.

Andy Haste

It's aimed at helping businesses cover their operating expenses had the disaster not occurred.

Carol Chastang

It's been instrumental in helping us maintain that program, providing a heavy chunk of our operating budget for our second facility.

Carl Cook

We can see a route whereby our existing capability is applied to others' customers and back-office costs and operating synergies can be achieved.

William Allan

On an average, 25 per cent of Kingfisher Airlines flights operating on September 29 have been cancelled.

Vijay Mallya

If it comes down to it, it's going to mean cutting down on your operating costs to pay for your fuel costs.

Cindy Anderson

While the top line has had some increases, the bottom line is a real cause for concern. The company continues to lose massive amounts of money with no signs of stopping the bleeding on the operating loss.

Burt Flickinger Iii

Excellent cost control was seen in particular in R&D expenditure that came in significantly lower than we expected. As a result the operating and net loss was lower than expected.

Bob Pooler

While our operating margin is an indicator, we believe the total margin is most indicative of the financial strength of a hospital. The total margin is the bottom line.

Bill Leonard

We don't feel like we have any habitual offenders at the airport. Otherwise they wouldn't be operating at the airport.

Marc Lavorgna

We've been operating at a loss there for some time. It's being done to return operations there to profitability.

Ray Atkinson

But that is an exit strategy, not an operating strategy. We will keep operating and figure something out.

Jeff Bass

You're not buying someone else's relationships. OK, so if you [do] buy you get a store network and staff but they've all been used to operating in a certain way. This way is baggage free.

Richard Hyman

Despite challenging market conditions, we remain focused on margin enhancement at Reuters, with a 12 percent operating target in 2002.

Tom Glocer

If I look at the operations, they don't seem to be making money. It's making losses at the operating level.

Leon Esterhuizen

Unfortunately, we have a history with hurricanes. We have a fairly standard operating process.

Everett Clendenin

In general they are not operating.

Eric Cornelius

Our operating expenses came down thanks to our cost-reduction efforts.

Eric Yu

If a business has 60 percent of its employees who are sick, how are they going to keep operating? If schools have a lot of children who are sick, how are they going to keep operating? Are they going to have to close? Are their children going to have to be at home?

Emily Palmer

More than ever, Apple can make a difference in any organization, including an enterprise situation where there is a mixed bag of operating systems .... We really feel like it's a new era.

Ellen Hancock

The market seems to have come to the conclusion that the 28 percent operating returns that (Wal-Mart) earned before the 2001 recession are a thing of the past.

Edward Weller

Various irregular forces are operating on their own. It's easy for them not to follow the higher-ups.

Eduardo Ermita

Clearly operating a bank in the United States is tough today.

Edmund Clark

We just feel that it is a kennel. Contrary to what she believes, she is operating a kennel.

Ed Ward

While market conditions will continue to be competitive, we fully intend to expand our business and grow market share profitably in 1999. The company will continue its aggressive drive of reduction of cost and operating expenses in the face of a very competitive market.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

We hope to have most of the funds raised by the July 2006 Woodford County 4-H Fair, and have the new building up and operating for the 2007 fair.

Earl Allen

This is not something we wanted to do, ... The mayor was not happy about this. We hung on for as long as we could. Try to analyze this: You have a government operating without any revenue coming in. We're in dire straits.

Zeno

Cricket in the Caribbean is steeped in tradition but we are operating in a global marketplace and we must keep pace with international standards.

Zorol Barthley