In the third quarter 2005, we produced our best third-quarter result ever.
Josef Ackermann
I think, operationally, this was a great quarter. I don't consider it a miss.
Philip Remek
We were very undisciplined in the first half. I wasn't happy with how we closed the first quarter but that little run gave us some daylight.
Roger Gerlach
We've been struggling offensively in the first half during our last three games and actually had more points in the third quarter than we did in the first half of each of those games.
Bill Wagner
I thought we did a good job against them in the first quarter. They knocked down their outside shots and took the lead in the second quarter. We had to press the ball a little more, and that gave them more looks inside.
Kelly Mathews
I thought we did a really good job of playing defense in the second half. We picked up the pace a little bit on defense in the third quarter and were able to force some turnovers. Overall, it was a good game for us.
Joe Brennan
In the third quarter they just took us out. We were buffaloed. We scored six points, and they were just beating us in every phase of the game.
Dick Pratt
We came out on fire in the first quarter. We were hitting our shots and not giving them any second looks.
Tiffany Corey
It's more a comment on their strength in the first quarter of 2005 than it is their weakness in the first quarter of 2006. It's clear it was a very good quarter for National Bank.
Jason Bilodeau
We were able to knock down our free throws. Fortunately we knocked some down in the fourth quarter to get some separation.
Brian Laffin
You can buy two-years and finance them for the next six months if you don't think the Fed is going to raise rates until the fourth quarter.
David Winter
Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter.
Robert Campbell
I talked to (the team) before the game about assists and about being team players. We had two assists against Philomath (Friday, Jan. 20) and we had 14 assists against Y-C. We only had one in the fourth quarter and once again they caught up with us in the fourth quarter, so maybe that was the problem.
Mike Steele
We took a couple steps backwards. The last couple of games we were focused in the fourth quarter and pretty much could get the job done. Tonight, we didn't do that.
Al Harrington
Continued steady growth across the industry is exhibited in May chip sales and, as announced in our forecast last month, we expect the industry to close the second quarter with growth of 4.7 percent.
George Scalise
They were just hanging around. I just didn't feel comfortable with our lead at the half. That third quarter really helped us.
Jim Aumann
The results for the quarter as a whole were below our expectations; however, our results began to improve in March and have continued to improve into April.
Lou Mancini
Every one-quarter of a cent per pound extra is important.
Mark Blanchard
Ingersoll-Rand is a cyclical company and they're trying to become less cyclical, and they've kind of proved it this quarter that they're hitting on all cylinders right now.
Thomas Leritz
We are pleased that our strong top-line momentum continued this quarter across all operating divisions and on top of the outstanding growth achieved in the year ago period. We are especially encouraged that global pricing was positive for the first time in two years, despite difficult cost and competitive environments.
Reuben Mark
We added $38 million in new business during the quarter.
Atul Nishar
It's a confluence of events, all these things are coming together to create further concern in the market. We'd expect oil to continue to rise and breach the old high of $70.85 over the next quarter.
Greg Canavan
We let them get 11 in the first quarter. Then we only allowed nine points in the second and third quarters combined. That's huge for us.
Craig Stinnett
We had talked about playing smart with our offensive possessions because they switch their defenses up a lot. For most of the game, we did a pretty good job. Our kids did play with composure in the fourth quarter, executed and got some things done that we wanted to do.
Jeff Vanarsdel
We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.
Dave Kohnen
This was a disappointing number relative to expectations and certainly consistent with the idea that consumer spending is going to be a much smaller contributor to economic growth in the fourth quarter.
Chris Probyn
If the company said it was a one-quarter event, then I think the downside would have been limited, ... But given the guidance we received, which is that growth is likely to slow because the company is so large, that will ratchet down the numbers for fiscal 2001, and that's probably where the damage is going to come from.
Charlie Wolf
We couldn't be more pleased with the business and financial results we achieved this quarter and in fiscal 2001.
Bill Coleman
This was another solid quarter for Sony Ericsson, and has enabled us to finish the year with great momentum.
Miles Flint
The first quarter is where we pretty much lost the game. After that we played an even game with them the rest of the way.
Tony Taylor
This impacted our operating profit by $30 million and our total utility expense rose by $100 million in the quarter.
Tom Schoewe
All of our major businesses, namely semiconductor, telecom and LCD are seeing definite improvement compared with the second quarter.
Chu Woo Sik
The fourth quarter is likely to be filled with anxiety-provoking rumor and speculation - not fun for investors. Moreover, we do think that many investors may feel that they have heard too many excuses about execution to buy into the stock now, even at levels around $100.
Toni Sacconaghi
Companies are worried. The situation could become much more difficult in the second quarter.
Marc Touati
If you go back to this time last quarter, expectations were low. This quarter, expectations are a lot higher.
Robert Cihra
Looking past this quarter, we generally anticipate that market conditions will progress favorably as we move into summer, which is traditionally the case for our industry.
O.b. Goolsby
Today was the end of the quarter and that helped the overall decline.
Warren Meyers
The crowd loved it when I kicked the ball long all the time, so every opportunity I got I would do it, ... I had a deal with the coach that when we were a certain amount up in the game late in the quarter, and I had the opportunity, I'd let it fly.
Ben Graham
Our businesses performed well overall in the fourth quarter, although trading results were disappointing.
Jamie Dimon
We had some bad turnovers and created some easy opportunities for them. The biggest thing in the fourth quarter is we gave up way too many offensive rebounds.
Jeff Arntson
The market's slight disappointment with the figures may reflect a perception of lower profit leverage to the higher sales growth together with another indifferent quarter in the medical division.
Simon Smith
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
We had to contend with gross margin pressure in all of our major business units in the second quarter due to competitive pressures.
Wayne Inouye
We did very well in the second quarter, and that has been a microcosm of our season. We play a good quarter and then not be so effective in another quarter. But our defense played pretty well throughout.
Dennis Cromer
The second-quarter season is looking bleak.
Michael Hughes
Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.
Hunter Harrison
We played great defense in the fourth quarter. We were trapping and scrambling, trying to force turnovers and get loose balls.
John Cislo
The retail sales numbers are obviously important because it's our first peek at what demand is going to look like in the first quarter of this year.
Tim O'neill
We're at the tail end of earnings season, and the ones I've seen today are up nicely. In general, the numbers have come in better than expected across the board and it's been a good quarter, (though) definitely choppy.
Ryan Crane
It's still early in the quarter, ... Obviously acceptance of Acrobat will play a big part in terms of how high the company's growth will be. But as we've demonstrated over the last eight to 10 quarters, we're a company that knows how to manage our business. ... We'll see what happens.
Bruce Chizen
We expect the first quarter to be a reasonably tough comparison versus last year.
Scott Davis
We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment.
Gary Pruitt
It was a tale of two halves for us. We could not do much that first half, especially the first quarter. We were really out of synch offensively and they capitalized on some chances we gave them with turnovers.
Chris Lander
Objectively speaking, I?m glad to look at that number. Now, if we can throw out that two- point quarter where we forgot what we were doing on offense, then I guess we?re OK.
Mike Schaefer
We didn't get too many calls in the fourth quarter. They were pushing us and I'm not going to say the officials cost us, but there was a stretch when we didn't get a call at all. We went cold and got stuck on 42 for a long time.
Major Corley
After a slower first half year, we are pleased to see growth across Philips has picked up in the third quarter as we improved our profitability.
Gerard Kleisterlee
Management did outline several actions that they plan to take that should help return the company to more profitability. This will include several hundred million dollars in charges in the December quarter.
Michael Ching
I am not suggesting we should be complacent about the weak statistic for fourth-quarter growth.
Sandra Pianalto
It is especially meaningful to us, because Judge Knott was one of our trustees for more than a quarter of a century.
John Blades
It was a great quarter for them. They're doing a very good job of telling their story that even though they're losing access lines, they're gaining customer connections.
Thomas Watts
We're experiencing a wait-and-see attitude because it's widely expected that earnings will not be that great. The odd surprise will help bolster the market but more importantly investors are waiting to hear guidance heading into the next quarter.
James Niosi
While we don't expect marked improvement in the December quarter, we now believe that demand should begin to slowly improve in calendar 2002.
Ceo Lou Tomasetta
In the third quarter, the crisis in the global equity markets weighed on the results of our primary and secondary equity businesses, as well as affecting capital gains on the industrial equity portfolio.
Daniel Bouton
We added far more customers and employees in the first quarter of 1999 than in any other quarter of our history.
Charles Brewer
If Felix had a mouthful of nickels, he couldn't give you change for a quarter. He doesn't speak much, he just competes.
Mike Hargrove
This is the second quarter in a row that Cigna has grown enrollment, and provides further evidence that the turnaround at Cigna is progressing smoothly.
Carl Mcdonald
It's normal profit-taking. It's quarter-end, it's Friday, the market's near the 16,000 resistance level.
Antony Mak
We have had to lower the price of some of our products, but the downward pressure on prices has weakened a little bit in the third quarter, compared to what we had expected beforehand.
Toshizo Tanaka
Competitors are growing, not very much, at low single digits in this last quarter. But we'd like to see them (Open Text) keep up to that growth rate. Key to the growth is leveraging the partners.
Tom Liston
He has symbolized the 'CBS Evening News' for nearly a quarter century, ... He'll continue to apply his talents to everything he does at CBS News.
Andrew Heyward
We wanted to get him in the game so we could establish an inside-out game, and he came out in the third quarter pretty eager to get going.
Perry Wildeboer
We got the shots we wanted - we had our chances. We made a nice run in the fourth quarter after falling behind and got it down to one. And we really got shots that we like to get. We just couldn't hit them.
Jerry Fitzgerald
IBM has told us over and over that the first quarter would be on the flat side. The market has already digested that, so now it's unlikely they will disappoint, and things will look brighter mid-year or so.
Ulric Weil
We will convey at IDF that we're on track to ship Dempsey in the first quarter of 2006, and Woodcrest is on track for the second half of 2006.
Scott Mclaughlin
On long rebounds, we didn't box out well and they out-hustled us at times. Once they had a feel they were in the game -- if you let a team in the game, in the fourth quarter, it can come back to bite you and that's what happened today.
Craig Turek
What we have lined up is a very aggressive calendar of blockbuster movies. This will be the channel's driver activity for the January to March quarter period of 2006.
Albert Almeida
The strong progress we've made this quarter is the result of our continued focus on delivering the best prices and the most powerful shopping tools to our customers.
Richard Barton
These were pretty decent numbers overall. There was some concern over the sales numbers, but revenue also was strong for the quarter. There doesn't appear to be any letdowns here.
Dan Geiman
We had key opportunities in the fourth quarter, had some possessions where we just didn't come down and run an offense. A chance to cut it to two or three points and a chance to cut it to one or tie the ball game, and we didn't get a shot off because we had a goofy turnover.
Chris Pack
We came out really, really strong in the first two quarters. But then, I don't know, we just kind of got laid-back in the third quarter and our defense started to fall apart.
Julie Futch
Mike got a lot of confidence early, and obviously we did a good job on third and fourth-down plays. We played hard in the fourth quarter. We just made a couple of big mistakes.
Rickey Bustle
They had a good quarter but there are a number of things that we heard in the conference call to give us pause.
Michael Judd
Our senior leader stepped up tonight. He kept us in the game in the second quarter.
Todd Bradshaw
We came out strong in the third quarter and that was a big key for us.
Janelle Spearmon
They changed their offensive strategy in the third quarter from an option team to more of a power up the middle team.
John Rafferty
Employers expect less hiring activity than in the first quarter when 30 percent of the companies interviewed intended to increase head count and 7 percent planned to decrease it. Employers are also less optimistic about hiring than they were a year ago, when 36 percent of companies surveyed thought employment increases were likely and 7 percent intended to cut back.
Joseph Tuerff
While we were profitable this quarter, we still have improvements to make in our business which will lead to cost reductions.
Jack Messman
Services is clearly the largest and fastest-growing portion of the information technology industry, and we continue to extend our leadership position each quarter, ... Our software business continues to gain momentum.
Louis Gerstner
We just didn't play until the end of the fourth quarter, until the whistle blew, ... and we're paying for it right now.
Tommie Harris
Our offense was in sync in the second quarter. We were passing the ball well and moving it down the court quickly. I think a lot of our success happened because we were moving fast enough to keep them from getting set.
Vance Cooksey
In three years and eight months beginning on April 17, 1975, between 1 and 2 million Cambodians died, as much as a quarter of the entire population. This is the story of a holocaust.
Philip Short
It was an objective in the first quarter, too, but we gave up 17 points. They were set to do some things against us both offensively and defensively.
Pat Deegan
We jumped out early in the first quarter and led 14-3. We played pretty good defense early, but then it was pretty even until the fourth when we out scored them 23-16. The second and third quarters were evenly matched.
Robin Wozny
I was very pleased with the way we played to end the second quarter. Our three-quarter court press was giving Johnston City fits.
Rick Metcalf
I got him comfortable and I knew I had a lot of horse, so I waited to the quarter pole to take off.
Rafael Bejarano
Given the less-than-favorable market environment, posting our second-best quarter ever underscores the broad-based strength and diversity of the firm's franchise businesses, and our continued success in building our high- margin activities.
Richard Fuld
We love the French Quarter. I fell in love with the city and never went back.
Betsy Kuyt
The pedigree on the bottom is good for 1 1/8 miles or a mile and a quarter.
Brandon Warren
They started shaking off the cobwebs in the second quarter.
Todd Boward
I would be very surprised, given the box office slate, if we won't see positive comps for them in the third quarter.
Marla Backer
We woke up in the second quarter and really started playing hard.
Colin Cushman
We certainly had a rash of both. The third quarter was definitely penalty-filled.
Brandon Morrow
We believe there was insufficient detail in the brief press release to draw strong conclusions about the quality of the fourth-quarter results.
Nicholas Byrne
I think the '07 SUV launch is really, really going to be a big deal. This new truck is our secret player in the fourth quarter of the big game.
Mark Eddins
It was incredible. I definitely expected that from our team. I expected no less. I was just happy we came out and did that in the fourth quarter.
Carolyn Miller
Microsoft has no comment on Intel, and is in the quiet period leading up to its first-quarter earnings. The company has issued no guidance on its financial results since it announced its fiscal fourth quarter earnings.
Caroline Boren
I think we caught 'em in some things in the first quarter, 'cause we ran a couple things we'd never run before.
Joe Labuda
In the second half, I didn't feel we found the energy that we needed. The second quarter we had some energy and I just don't think we found that in the second half.
Amy Pfeifle
The first quarter has seen continued strong growth in poker on the back of a record number of poker sign-ups.
Martin Weigold
We lost our intensity in the second quarter.
Bill Mcelroy
A lot of that was borrowed by the second quarter in the first quarter. I think it is indicative of weakness in the second quarter.
Gail Fosler
It's just a combination of a good solid quarter and some pretty solid guidance going forward.
Dan Geiman
We knew coming in what kind of program Council has. Once we settled down in the second quarter (and) once we started being aggressive, we played a lot better.
Patrick Damron
Fundamentals right now are bearish. Supplies are building really quickly. The trend is definitely to be lower, at least going into the second quarter.
Alexandre Kervinio
We looked good in the first quarter. But we need to be sharp the whole game. We need to get to where we play the fourth quarter like we played in the first quarter.
Rick Comegy
AIG has achieved profitable results even as it sustained losses...in the most costly quarter for catastrophes ever recorded.
Martin Sullivan
The economy could get back to an above trend rate this quarter, and that is what will matter to monetary policy makers.
Joseph Lavorgna
That's kind of been our quarter. We wanted to come out and make a statement. We jumped on them and never looked back.
Brian Guest
The big question heading into the fourth quarter and beyond is whether corporate profits hold up enough to cause a broad-based recovery in IT spending. IT spending is probably at a bottom but the trajectory of the recovery is debatable.
Krishna Shankar
Growing inventory of existing homes indicate we are now in a buyer's market! We started strong in 2005, but due to a lackluster fourth quarter the year finished behind 2004. Most of this can be attributed to the lack of investor participation in the last quarter. Sales for 2005 were about 5 percent below that of 2004.
Denny Grimes
We expect something from the FTC this quarter. We said all along that we expect regulatory [approval] to be completed by the end of first quarter and complete the merger by the first half.
Arch Currid
He used his brain and his back all the time. Mike's a very smart gardener. He'd also invested the most planning in what to see and do at the end of the day. He led us to the best po' boy in the French Quarter.
Bill Noble
We really struggled in the third quarter and that was when Grand Junction really took advantage of our struggles.
John Mraule
The third quarter I was a little disappointed in us giving up second chances and getting lazy on close outs. They clamped down a little bit in the fourth quarter.
Jamie Ullman
Now that you have some third-quarter earnings coming out that might be pretty good with great visibility, you might see a little bit of move back toward the large caps. With Motorola being an indicator, you're going to get predictable, solid earnings out of the large caps and that might attract some money in here.
Vincent Farrell
We started to click in the third quarter. We were getting open and finishing.
Andrew Baird
Maybe it was accelerated by the disappointing second quarter.
Arthur Rockwell
On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. But in the next quarter, we will get some mild stimulus from the rebuilding. Certainly, it will have no major, permanent effect on the economy.
Joseph Abate
We had positive plays on offense in the end of the second quarter that carried into the second half. We will continue to work to get better.
William Boyd
It's important to note that if you stripped out investment banking activities, our diluted earnings per share were up 21 percent for the full year of 2005 and 28 percent for the fourth quarter of 2004.
Steven Bangert
The major change we saw over the quarter was that investors were getting more optimistic about the economic growth outlook globally . . . The mood has swung from: 'What's next after Russia and Brazil?' to: 'Just how far is the U.S., the world's largest economy, going to grow?,'.
Peter Sullivan
We love it. We think this will be one of the banner stocks of the fourth quarter.
David Menlow
Strong patient volume and revenue growth contributed to another extremely successful quarter.
Jack Bovender
Operational issues held us back this quarter, but we are in the process of making a full recovery. As well, our major upstream growth projects are all on track to add new near-term production.
Ron Brenneman
Other companies have de-invested in their chip architectures, taking things out of the system. We've invested in the platform. We just had our biggest quarter for MIPS [millions of instructions per second] shipped ever on this platform.
Jim Stallings
While this increase improved total sales revenue for the quarter, margins on these products are lower than margins on the company's finished products.
Joe Crawford
Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but so what?
Henry Hewitt
That level of cost increase will not be repeated in the fourth quarter.
Tony Ridder
They were a very good defensive team. We played a great third quarter but we couldn't finish it off.
Karin Leary
It's been a very positive quarter so far for tech pre-announcements.
John Butters
As we get closer to the mid- to late-fourth quarter and even the first quarter, we'll start to see how much rebuilding we need. The next big move is going to be up, and it is going to be related to the hurricane.
Scott Meyers
It was a good quarter. There's not a lot of things to look at on the negative side.
Rob Sanderson
It was a very accelerated or aggressive promotional season - one that I think is going to be tough to predict. I don't think I've entered a first quarter with as much uncertainty.
Richard Jaffe
We don?t see this quarter as being a major catalyst, in either direction, but we believe the trends will improve for IBM during 2006.
Keith Bachman
Going into the quarter the high-speed data number was going to be the focus and they came spot in line with expectations.
Craig Moffett
I'm so proud of those girls. They played hard the whole game. When we went to Prairie Grove, we got blown out in the first quarter.
Lea Herndon
They're a good team. They've been playing with each other a long time and winning championships. And in the third quarter, you could see it out there.
Deshawn Stevenson
The last three or four games we've had some close games, and the fourth quarter we have pretty much controlled it.
Bret Teutken
There is nothing to stand in the way of a Fed rate cut of [a quarter-percentage point] in August.
John Herrmann
I don't think it's kosher to compare with the fourth quarter of last year because that was an entirely different price environment.
John Parry
They had an absolutely blowout second quarter.
Jennifer Chao
They probably have the best set of wide receivers in the league. They've been in every game that they've played, and they've lost some close games in the fourth quarter.
Kurt Faust
We did not match Griffith's intensity tonight. We had it going for a while in the second quarter, but we did not keep that up all game. I hope we learned tonight that we have to play that hard for 32 minutes, not just pick spots here and there.
Joe Delgado
I thought Antonio did not have his best first quarter. He played much better in the second quarter. Shermar came in the second half and had a big run for us.
Steve Roberts
Some of the best performers for the bear market had an awful quarter and some of the worst performers during the bear market had a good quarter.
Russel Kinnel
Our performance this quarter demonstrated once again that our focus and execution on long-term financial priorities translates to sustained profitable growth and a strong competitive advantage.
Dennis Powell
We have seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.
Andy Brough
Overall, we are happy with the (latest) quarter, but a little bummed about the outlook.
Steve Kamman
It could be late in the fourth quarter before we see any signs of recovery in the U.S. Europe lags the U.S. by about six months, so the fear is Europe will take a lot longer to come out of any downturn.
Michael Hughes
It doesn't really tell us a lot about where we are heading in the first quarter. We doubt this will have much of an impact and once we focus again on recent data, the dollar will probably climb a bit higher.
Robert Sinche
Samsung can continue to generate profit growth, and earnings this quarter will be positive.
Choi Chang Hoon
In our international channels we are experiencing a sharper decline in demand than we had forecasted and therefore, we have modified our second quarter revenue guidance.
John Daane
The big thing was our defense. We didn't give up any easy points in the fourth quarter.
Ryan Mcguire
We believe that the chances of Oracle hitting consensus estimates for its May quarter are low.
Neil Herman
We are satisfied with the first-quarter results of our operating companies and maintain our optimism for strong performance in 2006.
Richmond Mckinnish
Up front, the quarter was fantastic.
John Aiken
1998 was another landmark year for Yahoo!. We consistently and carefully managed the business, executed our original plan and invested in growing the company while increasing profits each quarter.
Tim Koogle
The export sector is getting better and is probably going to continue being strong in the first quarter.
Bertrand Delgado
A lot of it was won on that first quarter.
Adrian Hurley
We think that excellent June and September quarter prospects make for good investment opportunities in communications chip stocks.
David Wong
The outlook for the fourth quarter is not so hot. It is very clear that results in North America will be compressed by all this price cutting.
John Casesa
It's a good quarter. Good progress. We're not at a level yet in the automotive business that we're pleased with, so we have a lot of work to do. But we had another record quarter in financial services and a record year.
John Devine
They were really good numbers. We had good markets in the first quarter.
Dieter Buchholz
The kids from those boroughs are physical. They don't give quarter and they don't take any.
Chuck Granby
Even the last quarter of 2005 was a little bit better than we anticipated, and that was due in part to interest rates remaining in the affordable range.
Ron Croushore
The kids really jumped ahead at the start of the third quarter and that helped us control things a little.
Doug Burge
We just got hot. We were really in trouble in the second quarter. They had us on the ropes. Our subs came in and did a good job to hold it close until halftime.
Jeff Adkins
We play well with the lead, so we had to come out and knuckle down defensively in the third quarter and not let them hang around. When a team goes eye-to-eye with you and stays in it, anything can happen. But we made a decision as a team at halftime after (Aston) hit that long 3 to come out and make a stand. We were really fired up after that.
Linc Rottman
It's always fun to be surprised at the Senior Bowl. There have been some Senior Bowls in the past where they played a whole quarter and I didn't know what was going on.
Steve Mullins
I was in foul trouble and looked for my teammates to carry the load early in the game. But in the fourth quarter, I knew we had to pick up the intensity and come out strong.
Rashad Mitchell
The positive thing to note is that they actually had improving results as the year went on. But they were going against a very easy comparison -- they were down 3% in last year's fourth quarter.
Benj Steinman
The first quarter set the tone.
Ron Killinger
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