Surprisingly, the main driver of the upside of the quarter was Ford's automotive operations.

John Murphy

As in any time when our operations are very proactive and going out after the terrorists groups, the insurgent groups, there is always the possibility that our casualties will go up.

Steve Boylan

That's another project that will increase the amount of air operations here.

Dennis Blazak

Our new home will dramatically increase the efficiency of our operations by consolidating our staff currently housed in three buildings into one facility.

Jack Ehnes

We will continue our operations until they (militants) are rooted out completely.

Lutfozzaman Babar

None of the alternatives we are exploring would involve selling control of our U.S. operations to a company owned by a foreign government.

Bob Watters

Carriers have a lot more flexibility today in their choices to buy or customize technology to transform their operations.

Cynthia Saccocia

It was kind of like camping near a landfill. Everywhere outside of our base of operations was destroyed and everyone was fending for themselves.

David Richards

We sincerely regret the impact that this decision will have on many of our employees. We believe, however, that this action will strengthen our logistical capabilities and improve the company's remaining U.S. manufacturing operations.

Farooq Kathwari

It's her meeting. There isn't anything that permits members of the public to be present in any day-to-day operations of schools.

Ann Majestic

The company is taking market share in its major operations and continues to exceed expectations. Our enthusiasm is only tempered by the fact that much of this looks to be in the share price.

Mark James

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Bill Walton

David has made an enormously impressive impact on the company's operations since he joined us in 2004. After a thorough review, the board is pleased to confirm that David has its full backing to lead the company to its next level of growth.

Richard Eyre

Mannequin Madness did a very good job of convincing our judges not only of the clarity of her business vision, but of how technology was poised to help her expand her operations and become more profitable.

Andrea Peiro

It was just a one-off item. All our operations are on track.

Dennis Lui

During search operations, coalition forces and Afghan forces found the body of David Addison.

Lutfullah Mashal

They just can't get out of their own way. Citigroup may need to further disassemble parts of its operations to satisfy shareholders.

Tim Woolston

GM's investments demonstrate our commitment to continuously improve our products. They also show our dedication to strengthening our Michigan manufacturing operations.

Joe Spielman

We have been fortunate in that the majority of our policyholders have not shifted into higher risk operations.

David Bondy

Gannett's cable properties are a natural fit with our growth strategy of adding large technologically advanced properties in stand-alone markets and in markets contiguous to our existing operations.

Jim Robbins

This is consistent in our strategy in moving from an acquisition company to an operations company.

Thomas Morgan

They work with us to manage the operations of the terminal.

Diane Crews

These cable companies use their operations to present only one side of the issue because they don't want consumers to know there could be a choice for cable TV in this state.

Dennis Bone

The total from the operations is 90 killed while the number of arrests has reached 178.

Leith Kubba

The equipment is wearing out five times faster than normal operations.

Jeremiah Gertler

We are adjusting our operations to minimize the blockage at Birch Point. We'll try to minimize it to no more than 10 to 15 minutes.

Gus Melonas

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Joseph Schwieterman

None of us want more government intervention in our lives as far as the day-to-day operations. It'll be forced on everybody whether they want to do it or not.

Jim Barho

And we roll them into amusement parks, into concerts, into malls. These are actually operations that people can license and we have franchises that way.

Andrew Crosby

He built this company. I think that he's really left the day-to-day operations to (CEO Steve) Ballmer, but he is still mainly there as a high-level decision maker.

Tom Bittman

He'll have the challenge of getting all of our game operations ready to go and will be a key component on game nights.

Hayne Ellis

The drilling rigs that we have in the Gulf have basically ceased operations ... and moved to a safe location.

Jeff Moore

We will continue martyrdom operations throughout Palestine until the occupation leaves. The barriers of shame and disgrace set up by the Zionists shall face more blows.

Al Aqsa

We are cooperating with prosecutors in their investigation. We are continuing our efforts to expand our operations and conduct business as normal.

Takafumi Horie

At this time, we don't believe there are any [more] survivors at this point. We are going to continue this morning with our recovery operations.

Dale Naylor

Because we already serve areas in the same four states as NEI subsidiaries, we expect significant added efficiencies from the ability to combine these operations.

James Barr

I want to assure everyone in St. Joseph and the surrounding communities that we are committed to moving forward with the completion of the facility, hiring employees, and commencing operations as quickly as possible.

Rick Hoffman

It's a natural progression, ... Now I'll be in charge of operations, which is really where I wanted to end my career ... not that I hope it's over anytime soon.

Lin Ezell

This procedure has the potential of increasing the number of living donor transplant operations by one third to one half.

Robert Montgomery

He gave the ultimate sacrifice during combat operations supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Chris Franz

I think we're ahead of the paradigm. In the future, you'll find that other cities and even regions embrace the concept of the marriage of operations and marketing.

David Seamon

We do not intend to close down our operations or withdraw. We are absolutely committed to pursuing our work.

Dorothea Krimitsas

I don't think (day-to-day) operations would change much.

Susan Henderson

The State Department budget gets cut so much that there is not enough money to provide for protection as well as other operations.

Robert Oakley

Milosevic could have been cured with the help of a surgical operation. Such operations are performed in many countries now.

Leo Bokeria

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Lee Trevino

We are looking at new equipment, mechanical, electrical and structural repairs. Basically to get the plant back to its functioning operations.

Art Perez

Companies are under desperate pressure to shed these operations.

Tony Cox

We do not conduct random sweeps. We conduct carefully planned operations based on intelligence and investigative leads.

Barbara Gonzalez

DeLay assured the district attorney's office that he was not involved in the day-to-day operations of TRMPAC, and to his knowledge all activities were properly reviewed and approved by lawyers for the PAC.

Kevin Madden

We should be back to normal operations from a Katrina standpoint sometime Thursday.

Anthony Black

Our operations are running particularly well.

Andy Roberts

If helicopters had been used in emergency rescue operations, more than 10,000 people could have been saved.

Liu Daxiang

He came out of it super. The major concern with these operations is how a horse comes out of the anesthesia, and he did it with flying colors. He's so mellow, he's like a ten-year-old pony.

Dennis O'neill

While we are not pleased with the short term impact the labor issues have had on our bottom line, our actions are aimed at enhanced global competitiveness of our North American operations.

Alain Belda

If you could pay a reasonable price for the three hospitals that are having stable operations, I wouldn't mind them doing that deal.

Nancy Weaver

As of now, I cannot say there will be a point when we say 'No more helicopters'. In some operations, we say 'No more field hospitals, no more search and rescue teams'. We are not anywhere close to that yet.

Rashid Khalikov

If we find a migratory bird that's positive, what we would do is ... look for commercial operations, backyard operations that are in the vicinity of that find, and then we would do testing.

Andrea Morgan

They?re not going to be able to rely on any other support. These are self-contained operations.

Joseph Rice

The news should not have a material impact on (Woodside's) operations. Contract negotiations are an ongoing part of oil projects that are moving from exploration into development.

Andrew Blakely

Our international operations have more than doubled in the last 18 months.

Angela Cook

The banking industry is extraordinarily prepared, but there's no way to keep all operations up and running when they are under the water.

Scott Macdonald

Don stepped into a world where monetary operations were broken.

Peter Fisher

We are now dealing with many little al-Qaidas with the potential of neighborhood al-Qaidas. They may not be able to carry out specialized operations ... but they can still operate at a lethal level.

Brian Jenkins

The importance of exports is critical to our economy. Thus, any disturbance in port operations cannot be dismissed lightly.

Goolam Ballim

Area producers will be able to learn valuable information to assist them with their operations from two outstanding speakers. We're fortunate to have these gentlemen as guest speakers.

Dean Schroeder

The company has proven its ability to navigate through difficult and volatile circumstances while continuing to improve its operations and financial performance.

James Lee

Mr. Ecke's going to move his flower operations out of Encinitas to Central America whether or not we vote for this, ... He's been doing that for years, and most of his operations are there now.

Matt Walker

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

Thomas Pynchon

Without the trans-Pacific operations, we can operate very profitably.

Jonathan Ornstein

We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

Azim H. Premji

Our global and national strategic objectives continue to move toward joint and coalition cooperation and collaboration and from traditional border defense to forward-deployed coalition operations.

Tom Burbage

Mining and milling operations have been temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure.

Siddharta Moersjid

We believed that it was a prudent measure for us to follow, make sure we had the cash readily available to us to finance our operations should it be needed.

John Sheehan

We don't perceive any impact on our operations.

Joel Mills

They've improved their operations really across the board. My sense is that it happened faster than they expected.

Cameron Doerksen

The military operations must stop and we expect the government to create a congenial atmosphere for the talks. Or else we shall not sit for talks.

Dilip Patgiri

We're shutting down all delivery operations. When it's all buttoned up and put away, we'll be evacuating.

Mark Bugg

We absolutely have sufficient liquidity to fund the operations of the business and return to break-even.

Patricia Russo

The company is well positioned and the operations are okay. The management board and supervisory board were in agreement that this would be the best thing for the company.

Thomas Froehlich

It's a reality check for those patients who are considering these operations.

David R. Flum

We have operations in both Iran and Iraq, and when Iraq was invaded, the people there didn't even call headquarters, they just dealt with it.

David Sims

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

The potential for growth and value creation is greater in the group's other operations.

Todd Stitzer

That's an indication that both programs and operations in Latin America have got really significant potential so that's a principle area of focus for us.

Charlie Sartain

That means I was born with all the bones in my head grown together. I had to have two operations when I was a baby.

Cara Van Ness

This is a very delicate situation for the country. Mexico cannot allow operations of this size.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Whirlpool has moved a lot of operations overseas, and that's helped out with their costs.

Mirko Mikelic

Where Inco has operations, it has legacies, and we are going to have to face up to them in a proper and responsible way.

Scott Hand

The objective of these observations is to contribute towards the safety, regularity and efficiency of aircraft operations during take-off and landing.

Solomon Makgale

With the proceeds from the A share issue, we will be able to fine-tune the integration of the company's upstream and downstream operations.

Li Yizhong

We'll have the same security operations, the same people. Nothing will change tomorrow. We have been diligent about keeping them in the loop.

Michael Seymour

Locating our headquarters close to our businesses in the Midwest will significantly enhance the lines of communications within the company and increase the overall effectiveness of our operations.

Brandon Davis

The day to day operations of the business will continue to be run by local management by their base on the Isle of Man.

Jim Craig

We optimize the business to give Danny [Ainge, the Celtics executive director of basketball operations] as much money as possible to go spend on players -- the more money we make, the more he has to spend.

Daryl Morey

You can't do counterinsurgency warfare without a large army. The operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are largely army affairs.

Steve Kosiak

But we did get the general sense that they were either shutting down, facing a major downsizing in operations, or being consolidated.

Dennis Andrulis

The point of this whole thing is to look at your continuing operations within your infrastructure.

Rich Dipentima

Today marked our 100th day of operations. The moment the weather cleared our helicopters lifted off.

Rear Admiral Michael Lefever

Our beverages operations are now clearly focused in profitable markets of North America, Continental Europe and Australia.

John Sunderland

Fiscal 2003 will be a year of challenges, ... We will continue to focus on generating net cash from operations, though progress will be more difficult since we have already made significant improvements.

Heinrich Von Pierer

UA has suffered recurring losses from operations and may not generate sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations as they become due.

Arthur Anderson

It is also the seventh consecutive quarter that the company has generated cash from operations.

Jeff Clarke

Our focus continues to be on continuing our North American automotive operations and restoring them to profitability as quickly as possible.

Jerry Dubrowski

We've had meetings, but we're looking for concrete operations planning.

Barbara Stader

The core operations seem to be doing well.

Robert Lafleur

In the United States, our focus has been mainly on numbers and how to put them in operations (addition, subtraction, etc.).

Cathy French

This is one of the most complex, challenging and most successful military operations we have ever run.

Peter Cosgrove

We get hit both ways now because all markets are distant. I buy diesel - 4,000 to 5,000 gallons a year - for our operations, then I have to pay for transportation to market.

Trent Taylor

We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, particularly About.com, ... But elsewhere, advertising is weaker than expected.

Janet Robinson

The general takeaway from our moonlighting is that Amazon is executing on its near-term and long-term financial and operating goals. Customers are plentiful and active, customer service levels are high, and operations are becoming more efficient.

Jamie Kiggen

We do believe a family of UAVs needs to be sourced to support our operations.

Barbara Fast

So it is a big accomplishment of the Armed Forces and we hope there will be follow-up operations that will bring the same good results.

Generoso Senga

We will continue to assume our responsibilities and find a way to continue the electoral operations in his absence.

Max Mathurin

We asked ourselves, how did this happen? We were too far removed from the daily operations.

Carolyn Smith

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Julia T. Alvarez

Certainly, the numbers show that our U.S. operations are not profitable at current volume levels and, given our contractual expenses, we are not profitable in our current state.

Claudia Piccinin

This is going to improve the speed with which we bring vehicles to market. It will streamline operations.

Dan Sieger

It reduces the total revenues to the district for our operations.

Allen Jones

Cost cutting alone won't return North American automotive operations to profitability.

Craig Hutson

They want their due rights and government need to begin political negotiations instead of military operations.

Asma Jahangir

[Coast Guard Lt. Joe Leonard, who is heading operations at the Astrodome, hopes everyone is out of local shelters by next weekend.] Will we get there? ... I don't know, but we're working hard to get there.

Joe Leonard

Given the obvious sensitivities, we could not accept involvement of Indian military on our side for relief operations.

Foreign Ministry

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner.

David Moffett

There is a general concern that any development in proximity to the airport could result in noise complaints and ultimately have a detrimental effect on airport operations.

Jeff Shaw

Once the government approves the deal, the two airlines will be merged and continue their operations as Jet Airways.

Naresh Goyal

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

They will be gathering a lot of information about how to set up 'hastily formed networks,' ... The research part will help them understand how to conduct other operations more efficiently.

John Sanders

Voters love these kind of operations in which the enemy is humiliated and our forces return safely to base.

Nahum Barnea

It's hard for me to reconcile that with the concept of routine operations.

Roger Young

This convenient new tool gives customers up-to-the-minute access to their accounts, helping producers better manage the daily operations of their farm or ranch.

Teresa Lasseter

We long ago took full responsibility for the shortcomings in our Philadelphia operations.

Bill Barbour

The earnings benefited from good management with a clear strategy aimed at improving asset structure and striking balanced growth among all business operations.

Yu Xiaoyi

Among the U.S. operations like Viacom, AOL Time Warner, Disney, all of them have been making acquisitions. But all of them have been generating very strong cash flow.

David Staples

Prepare for operations should military action against Iraq become necessary.

Robert Hill

If it passes, we would have to make dramatic changes to our operations.

Kris Reyes

Integrated hog operations tend to like to have their own feed-milling capacity. They tend to locate hogs generally within 50 to 60 miles of that feed mill.

Chris Hurt

The expectation is that their operations will continue pretty much as [they have] been in the past.

Jim Reynolds

Convey a positive image of disaster operations to government officials, community organizations and the general public.

Paul Clark

More and more production is starting to shift into some very large operations.

James Macdonald

There would be an impact on all the Delta launches, because if there is a strike, all launch operations will freeze.

Tina Lange

We tried to adjust our operations to stay within the budget.

Larry Clark

Prospects into 2006 and beyond are strong as we expand our publishing list and develop our international operations.

Nigel Newton

Staples' and Quill's direct marketing operations are complementary.

Thomas G. Stemberg

The implications of Hurricane Katrina are clearly not positive for the Entergy enterprise, as the company's operations were the hardest hit of any electric utility system.

Robert Rubin

This is an informational picket. It is not impacting our operations, and we don't expect that it will.

Bruce Hicks

There are some things I can't talk about. I have to be careful. There are [special-operations] units that Congress probably doesn't even know about.

John Caulfield

We expect to resume operations early Thursday evening. Amtrak service will resume after midnight.

Gary Sease

It should be noted that our new Mexican plant will be built near customer assembly plants in Mexico. It will not impact operations at other Behr America plants in North America.

Frank Mueller

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

Ray Atkinson

There is a little bit of trepidation about getting into those kind of operations.

Marty Brown

We think that by mid-January we will normalize the operations of PDVSA.

Bernardo Alvarez

What we've done is adjust our operations for the available work.

Forrest Gossett

As demand for aluminum strengthens, we will capture the efficiencies generated by last year's strategic restructuring of our operations.

Alain Belda

In coming months, we will be working towards successfully integrating Air Sahara operations into our own.

Naresh Goyal

We would like to expand our branch operations on a wholly owned basis. We're in constant dialogue with the insurance regulator, and I hope to visit him very soon in Beijing.

Martin Sullivan

BP is aware of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into possible contract-bidding irregularities involving two companies that do business with the company through the Durango Operations Center.

Dan Larson

We don't abduct anybody. We are not even holding anybody -- even those we take in on cordon operations are handed to the police and appear in the magistrates' court.

Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe

Our focus is on increasing pre-tax margins and returns on capital in our core car and truck rental operations.

Sandy Miller

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

Leon Esterhuizen

Our only option was to shut down operations and eliminate positions.

Walt Dabney

The Government has failed to fund KBC operations as a public service broadcaster to the extent that KBC is the only public broadcaster in the world that is not government-funded, yet all I get from ministers is complaints about coverage.

Wachira Waruru

It's business as usual (and we) will continue operations (in Peru and the affected plants). We expect that if a new buyer were to come in that they would continue to operate in those communities (affected).

Tania Graves

Those who have dispersed, it would appear, are trying to get back together and regroup so that they can ascertain, do they have leadership, do they have mission, can they do operations?

John Stufflebeem

We will continue with these operations until we have them all.

Eugene Opperman

There's been a lot of activity in restaurants and stores on fears there will be damage to their operations.

Evan Olsen

Miles of roads are also being enhanced to support the operations of the new space launch facility.

Eric Knight

They need to focus on getting their clinical CRO operations to a higher level as they have increasingly relied on lab-based business. The key going forward is managing their growth and their infrastructure.

Eric Coldwell

They need to focus on getting their clinical CRO operations to a higher level as they have increasingly relied on lab-based business, ... The key going forward is managing their growth and their infrastructure.

Eric Coldwell

We have significantly strengthened our coverage across the country, as well as our regional operations and customer service.

Erik Aas

We expect first-quarter operations will improve. The results will match our forecast made during the fourth-quarter.

Eric Yu

We will move all of our striking teams to residential areas. They will no longer conduct offensive operations to seek and destroy GAM.

Endriartono Sutarto

Our decision wasn't based on incentives at all. It was based on how we review our plant operations to remain competitive in a global environment.

Emily Tzinberg

These riders pack the biggest wallop on the Foreign Operations and Commerce/Justice/State bills.

Elizabeth Thompson

Particular attention was paid in 2005 to ensuring security on the Caspian Sea, including the safety of operations on offshore oil fields.

Elchin Guliyev

It is representative of the industry at large. About 12-to-18 months ago, there was this common belief amongst retailers that in order to have longevity and a long-standing business, we all need to be considering multi-channel operations. This is what consumers are going to demand of us.

Elaine Rubin

We're on a very limited budget and it (daily operations) cost a lot.

Elaine Hicks

As the liner companies stopped being American, the people interested in terminal operations became international players.

Edward Kelly

If the projected 20 percent cuts in funding for the 2006-2007 fiscal year occur, it will cripple the TB treatment operations in Hidalgo County.

Eduardo Olivarez

There are follow-up operations going on.

Eduardo Ermita

They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have launched pursuit operations.

Edilberto Adan

If their (operations) numbers are looking better, it's only because they were so bad.

Ed Emmett

They are separate enterprises. They have their own separate challenges, and we're interested in seeing those operations continue as they currently exist.

Ed Byrne

This year the general quality and results of China's economic operations continuously improved.

Zhu Zhixin

Everyone evacuated and was accounted for, and there were no injuries. The mine returned to normal operations around 3:30 p.m..

Zack Spencer