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We are looking at purchasing a computer program that would shut down the more than 900 computers that are on the network. The software will cost the district about $500 and save us more than $23,000 in energy costs per year.

Mike Shockley

We're seeing people move up within the Austin market. Maybe two years ago, they were purchasing a $150,000 home, and now they are looking to purchase a $200,000 home.

Steve Still

As it gets harder and harder to break through with messaging, what becomes important is the realness of a message in terms of being relevant and having impact on someone's purchasing.

Sarah Fay

We're doing everything we can to keep our costs as low as we can, but the largest percentage of our cost is the cost of purchasing the power that we deliver to our customers. We could fire everyone and not do anything, but we still can't control the cost of energy that we have to buy to provide our customers.

Rodney Bourne

There was speculation more members would vote for a shift in monetary policy. The bank decided to keep policy with a 7-2 majority and that will make people feel comfortable purchasing bonds.

Tomohiko Katsu

This is essentially a giant purchasing pool. It's not a lot more than that.

Dan Thompson

People can sell you a lifestyle, a representation of who you want to be. People feel they are engaged simply by purchasing.

Gideon Yago

Investors, especially pension funds, have lots of cash set aside to buy bonds, and most of that money is still waiting to be used for purchasing debt.

Masahiro Kami

In my seminar 'Wine Info' I want to excite people about the fun of pairing wines with food and friends. I want to make people comfortable with labels and grapes and alcohol content so they can make educated decisions when purchasing wines.

Jeff Graham

Our customers are much more familiar with purchasing tea in tea bags versus loose-leaf teas.

Dan Donovan

Calls to this tip line should be limited to fraud activity and corruption by businesses or persons engaged in purported contract fraud, procurement or purchasing fraud, and/or fraud of federally funded programs.

Chris Swecker

A lot of people find it interesting as a research tool, but in many cases they would much rather have a kit to modify an atomic force microscope they already own rather than purchasing a whole new instrument just to do dip-pen.

Michael Holman

We have seen just an incredible fall-off in demand for commodities. One country after another has stopped purchasing.

Bob Hafer

However, increased interest in marketing automation [solutions] also [stem] from increased business confidence and resultant purchasing decisions.

Sharon Mertz

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Roger Babson

This raise is just keeping up the purchasing power of those people who deserve it.

Paul Hubbert

By purchasing Siebel, Oracle has acquired an additional 3.4 million CRM (Customer Resource Management) users and the maintenance fees that go with that kind of installed base.

Janet White

We're now in a situation where a lot of the big corporate purchasing groups are playing one HMO off against another, ... As a result, the average price increase for the HMO industry was actually down slightly for 1996.

Gary Frazier

We did this so our employees would see that management was fully committed to the design and execution of revamped business processes such as 'the new purchasing and materials management system' that aims to eliminate waste and maximize the productivity of every employee in the organization.

John Cutt

It's better to add hybrid cars and other fuel-efficient models to the company's lineup, as the market for those vehicles is booming. Consumers are purchasing them even though they are more expensive than conventional gasoline cars.

Hiroyoshi Nakagawa

Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.

Jeff Adams

Aboriginal and minority firms are proving their worth over and over again. With the creation of CAMSC, we are able to promote purchasing from Aboriginal and minority enterprises globally.

Jethro Joseph

It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials. It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company.

Charles Lewis

For us, it's not about purchasing behavior. We are more interested in introducing students at that age . . . getting them used to Rhapsody.

Matt Graves

The euro zone economy is strong. The latest German purchasing managers' survey was at a record high.

David Solin

Consumers deserve the option of choosing the combination of services that fits their needs and encouraging greater purchasing flexibility through standalone DSL furthers this goal.

Jonathan Adelstein

We have 40 to 50 percent turnover a year, ... Half of them are purchasing homes, and the next big bulk of them are relocating out of the area.

Jack Dent

The Anti Aging market is a multi billion dollar market that is expected to see double digit growth in the coming years, our largest demographic the baby boomers have major purchasing power and are willing to pay top dollar to look and feel young, we have a steady pipeline of products that will fill this need to look good and also to feel good.

Rita Sung

Since (then), that $5.15 an hour has lost a lot of purchasing power. It isn't sufficient income for families.

John Freeman

The point is to demonstrate what a day without us would be like. Without us buying clothes, without us purchasing gasoline, without us buying food. . . . We have taken many steps forward, now is not the time to take steps back.

Jim Delgado

I've never had to raise money this fast. It's definitely an intense time for us. We'll have to put down cash, hard solid money that puts us into the place of purchasing this.

Wendy Fisher

Inventory has become a life and death issue for our industry. The lesson of the last two quarters is that inventory has moved from being a concern of the purchasing segment to a concern of the industry itself.

Sean Maloney

There's a lot of value to getting together to get the efficiencies of bulk purchasing.

Paul Hazen

No one will leave Safer America or saferamerica.com without a significant amount of training into what it is they are purchasing.

Harvey Kushner

We believe a portion of this weakness is due to some customers delaying testing and purchasing decisions in anticipation of Y2K, primarily with our new products.

David Weiss

Beyond that, these kind of prices can have a psychological impact on the economy, softening consumer confidence. If you are concerned about future prices, you may think twice about purchasing something now, especially if it's a big-ticket item.

Bryan Singer

Most districts like to balance specifics and catchall. Primarily they use the catchall for the opportunity to use additional earnings that might come from the bond for purchasing lands or other facility needs.

Nicholas Miller

Your user ID, your password, if you're purchasing anything online, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, et cetera. All of that is being recorded and retrieved.

Barbara Anthony

These figures suggest that a large number of smokers are purchasing their cigarettes through alternate channels such as across state borders or over the Internet.

Bill Phelps

The Heights gets numerous requests for reproductions of photographs seen in the paper, and this will give alums, students, and anyone else an easy way of purchasing pictures of anything from football or basketball games to performances and events on campus.

Tom Wiedeman

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Tim Deal

I'm very, very excited about Tom purchasing the franchise.

Bill Quinlan

I use them all the time on campus for school, but with this new software becoming available, I plan on purchasing one in the near future. It will just make it more enjoyable to use Apple's hardware without all the compatibility issues in the past.

Michael Dawson

Think about what you're going to add to the environment and to the air that you breathe before purchasing any product. There are many low-emission products available to buy. You don't want to add problems to your environment when you're redecorating or renovating.

Brian Stocks

So a total of about 12 people in all in the last week inquiring about purchasing based on the gas prices.

Russ Moore

Purchasing new equipment simply isn't in your average fire department's budget. Cutting this budget amount means few fire departments will be able to obtain new equipment.

Jackie Vaughn

If you look at the subcategories, you see a backlog in sales orders while inventory levels are down and purchasing commitments are up.

Michael Keenan

For AM stations, purchasing digital antennas would significantly change the way they broadcast. It would double the radio bandwidth.

Rick Sewell

We will be purchasing recycled materials to show we are conscious of the environment, and our students will be aware of it as well.

Ron Garrison

We cut back some of our purchasing, our projected purchasing. We've also cut back some of our staffing. The last time they had a project out here, it lasted three months. We had a 30% drop in revenues.

Craig Inouye

PEDIGREE is not just about dog food, our love of dogs is the driving force behind all that we do. By purchasing PEDIGREE products, you'll do your part in raising funds, up to $1 million dollars, to be donated to shelters and breed rescues nationwide.

Rob Leibowitz

ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Ambrose Bierce

We use to call on a customer and engineering was in one part of the building, purchasing in another and manufacturing in another. With one visit we could talk to all of them.

Roy Vallee

Auto buyers like to know what automotive professionals consider the best cars and trucks on the market. With so many factors to evaluate when purchasing a new vehicle, the Most Significant New Introduction Awards help consumers identify one worth considering.

Grant Whitmore

Considering that the purchasing power in these countries was low, we were artificially holding prices in check. Now we are raising them, although it should have been done earlier.

Alexander Ryazanov

The first thing a person needs to do, before or immediately after purchasing a rabbit, is to talk to a veterinarian. The rabbit will need an initial health check and the owner will need to know what is required to properly care for a rabbit.

Lorraine Corriveau

It's a shame that TCA doesn't see our group of investors as a viable bid, ... Had we had more time, we would have had a better chance at purchasing the club.

Joe Gill

The NBC properties we are purchasing are strong stations in cities with attractive growth prospects.

Marshall Morton

It's already been working to dampen demand and cut into purchasing power. The longer it stays here, the longer that impact will last.

Joshua Feinman

[With Gerstner, the company hopes to restore its credibility and add a financial juggernaut all in one deft move.] It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials, ... It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company.

Charles Lewis

Purchasing a suite at Point Grace means not only owning a piece of Caribbean paradise, but also owners have the opportunity to be a part of an established property with high-levels of service.

Valerie Hudson

We don't take care of the one asset we spend much of our life purchasing and paying for.

Rebecca King

It is to show the amount of work, the purchasing power, the contributions that illegal and undocumented workers make on a daily basis.

Chris Banks

Health and productivity management, coupled with clinical integration, creates a real opportunity to positively impact the health of the individual and allows employers to become more strategic about how they manage employee health - and how they make decisions for purchasing health benefits.

Tim Blevins

Where these cooperatives get their real added value is moving beyond the bulk purchasing.

Paul Hazen

As ac drive usage increases, the amount of harmonic current will also increase, further straining the already stressed distribution grid. This will eventually force manufacturers to place more emphasis on purchasing ac drives that provide some means of harmonic mitigation.

Mark Kenyon

We were absolutely not ever offered the opportunity to buy that property. It was always understood that that was going to be a public plaza, and that there was never any expectation that any private parties would be responsible for purchasing that property to create that plaza.

Rebecca Hale

[Consultants say direct account shifts are more likely to be made by entrepreneurial companies or those in which the marketing chiefs work closely with top management.] It's an organization where marketing is leading the agency relationship management rather than purchasing, ... The CMO is closely aligned with the CEO's objectives.

Arthur Anderson

Often there is a different level of understanding for languages, I myself being bilingual and trilingual can attest to that. You can converse pretty well in English, but that doesn't mean you are going to feel comfortable reading an e-mail, document or even purchasing something online in English.

Myriam Siftar

It was under pressure earlier on drifting commodities prices, particularly natural gas. Some soft numbers from the purchasing managers index helped give it a bit of a shove lower.

Shaun Osborne

Technically he hasn't violated any laws by purchasing a tag, ... He was under the belief that he would be done and that he would be able to hunt this bison.

Chris Cavanaugh

We will be purchasing the energy, not the capacity.

Jeff Deren

Co-signing a car loan may be okay if you think your child is trustworthy and that's the only way they can get a loan. But if it's something they really can't afford, maybe they need to reconsider what they're purchasing.

Sophie Beckmann

No one is really that good at reading the crystal ball. (Dollar-cost averaging) puts in place a pattern of purchasing behavior that in time will average out to be good.

Diane Rolfsmeyer

The main thing that I would like to make clear is that we are not purchasing equipment over the Internet.

Kari Fluegel

If this ($14.95 million) resolution passes, Property and Purchasing would know what we have to take to the architect. There is no money spent with this resolution. A final design would come back to the county board before any money is spent.

Bob Keller

It was a purchasing snafu.

Trevor Phillips

We tell people purchasing items online to buy from reputable companies.

Dennis Moore

There has been a very strong interest in China and a mandatory requirement for a lot of purchasing agents to do everything possible to make sure they are not leaving any money on the table.

Rob Sellers

Inflation is a bigger threat for boomers than for their parents, ... The longer the period of retirement that you must plan for, the more inflation eats away at your purchasing power.

Michael Busch

The high cost of housing not only keeps the workforce from purchasing homes in South County, it also makes it next to impossible for them to find apartments they can afford.

Jean Barry

When you take (the report) alongside all the other indicators, particularly the purchasing managers' survey, it confirms the economy is indeed in recovery.

Rick Egelton

I've been taking funds this past year to provide all equipment free of charge and am almost at our goal of purchasing 20 full lacrosse uniforms, helmets, sticks, pads, etc..

Greg Porter

There is a big picture driver of this phenomenon. That is the significant discount in the price of rental housing in the expensive neighborhoods in which we own apartments compared with the cost of purchasing housing in these same neighborhoods.

R. Scot Sellers

I think what shocks some consumers is the degree to which the purchasing lender is making unilateral changes to terms that they weren't aware could be changed.

Gary Klein

You've got better protection buying a set of tires right now, than you would purchasing burial services.

Martin Corry

Business-to-government companies target fewer buyers that have enormous purchasing power and more dependable shopping lists.

Keith Allen

I think that we are over the recession. We have positive GDP, employment is stabilizing and the purchasing managing index seems to be going up. It seems like the economy is back on track.

Drew Forbes

What this packaging technology allows us to do is protect the color. To maintain the red color consumers are used to purchasing.

Randy Huffman

Since Schwarzenegger was elected, the minimum wage has already lost 10 percent of its purchasing power.

Art Pulaski

January purchasing managers' surveys signal that the impressive acceleration in manufacturing activity from the final quarter of 2005 has carried over into the new year.

David Hensley

The guy on the street who is thinking of going to the U.S. this summer is going to feel a whole lot better because purchasing power has gone up a lot.

Warren Jestin

They need to take care of that because if you or I are nervous about buying online or purchasing something from a store, businesses are not going to benefit from that.

David Dalrymple

We're supporting the national position for a day of rest. Not purchasing anything from stores, not purchasing gasoline.

Jim Delgado

I am for the purchase of 78 vehicles. I question by we added another layer of purchasing.

Ralph Riggs

Real discretionary purchasing power has picked up this year, and is relatively strong.

Michael Niemira

There's no question that industries that are purchasing steel are benefiting. But unlike industries that are hurt, consumers will never organize.

Andrew Bernard

It's always good for purchasing agents to have more than one source.

Bob Brown

A company purchasing the former Highland Yarn Mills complex for an adaptive reuse would be great news for High Point, ... However, none of the confidential clients with whom our office is working has authorized me to discuss any news about those buildings.

Loren Hill

Know the company you're buying from, ... I would opt for purchasing directly from a Hertz or Enterprise. But I'd be careful of vehicles that come from corporations. They can generate lots of mileage.

Douglas Love

The cost of purchasing health insurance and providing health insurance and that's related to the increased cost of health care.

Kevin Ryan

It's good to have the child be responsible for purchasing some things on their own. If parents buy everything for kids, they won't learn to associate money with those items.

Dara Duguay

Even though [mortgage] rates have been up a little bit, they're still, from a 30- to 40-year perspective, at historic lows. It's still a great purchasing environment for people who want to get into housing.

Doug Duncan

Large corporations in the Midwest will be thanking drivers in New York for purchasing gas. The [bill] is a boon to mega-companies in mid-America, like Archers Daniels Midland, that produce corn for ethanol.

Eliot Engel

WHAT WE'RE DEALING with here is a request by the electric company to pass on to its customers costs they have incurred in purchasing power.

Elia Germani

It is certainly our belief that digital music buying is the future of music purchasing. Certainly our customers love it, and you can see it in the younger generation. They buy a lot of music now, and they buy it all online. That is what they know music as. They certainly do not know music as a record or as a CD--they know it as digital bandwidth.

Eddy Cue

Purchasing at the local level rolls over dollars to stimulate the local economy and begin the longer term – and much more expensive – effort of reviving the economic potential of these countries.

Fred Fox

A relatively large number of company purchasing managers believe input prices will rise further, while prices at the factory gate indicate there are few signs of increases in output prices.

Zhang Liqun