While growth has been holding up relatively well, particularly in emerging market economies, there are considerable risks beneath the surface.

Charles Dallara

The male cuttlefish has quite a challenge on his hands when it comes to the end of their yearly life cycle. There are four, five, even ten males for every female on the spawning grounds, so the challenge they face is, 'How do I get my genes into the next generation?' There's enormous competition among the males for the relatively few females that are on the spawning ground.

Roger Hanlon

Clearly the economy is not helping. Consumers are relatively strapped, and they're focusing more of their time and attention on the big discount days, like black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) and today.

Todd Slater

They were preparing a nice meal for Dayna Curry, whose birthday was on the 4th (November). Over the past few days it had been relatively quiet in Kabul proper and I think emotionally they had all come to develop a sense of resignation -- that they were in for the long haul, that they were doing OK emotionally, but they certainly did want to get out of there as soon as they could.

John Mercer

Drug stocks have remained relatively cheap, and you'll notice that since interest rates are of little importance to the major pharmaceutical companies ... there's a run toward some of the defensive characteristics of drug stocks.

Neil Sweig

Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between acute episodes of exertion and sudden cardiac death. Although relatively rare, these deaths commonly occur in an unexpected fashion among those who appear quite healthy.

Christine Albert

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Paul Sagawa

Anything that is high-mass and low tech, we're going to make there on Mars. Anything that is really high tech--like sensors, motors and complex mechanism--most of those things are relatively low mass and can be imported from Earth.

Joseph Palaia

Parades are traditionally held around this time. It's being held at a time that's relatively convenient for the largest majority of folks. If we held it any later in the day, you'd be looking at rush-hour traffic.

Kevin Evanto

We'll give Brandon some minutes. I've seen him play and I have confidence he'll pick up what we're doing relatively quickly.

Paul Woolpert

It's a relatively slow-growing market. I wouldn't say it's doing great in Europe because the technology is in the early stage of adoption. It's reaching critical mass, but nobody has hit the home run and nailed the market entirely.

Idarose Sylvester

The earnings for the banking industry have generally been pretty good, ... We've had more pleasant surprises than we expected -- we anticipated a relatively dull quarter.

Lawrence Cohn

When you get suckered into a nice January with relatively mild temperatures, you think this isn't possible. But clearly it is.

Bill Simpson

I guess the thing I like best about it [the Carson project] is it's something that could happen in a relatively short period of time.

Pat Bowlen

These data suggest the post-holiday labor market will remain relatively soft -- probably delivering a little less than 200,000 new jobs a month on average.

Ken Goldstein

It's obvious that the U.S. economy is very strong and producing jobs at a very robust pace. Even with the relatively tame wage gains, the market is anticipating another interest rate increase from the Fed.

Rob Palombi

There's been a lot of discussion about the end of quantitative easing, but relatively little about interest rates themselves. It's the level of rates that really matters.

Hironari Nozaki

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

Harold Hughes

While the core process of establishing an offshore e-commerce business is relatively painless, the costs of choosing the wrong country or even the wrong type of business entity can be financially devastating.

Ron Z. Mendelson

We're relatively close. We got some matches that maybe we wouldn't have won last year, and we lost a couple of close ones. We're coming along. It's just going to take some time.

Mike Burchett

The MDA has a really great keyboard, it has a touch screen, it folds up, and it's relatively small when it's folded up.

Sascha Segan

At this point and time, the deals are relatively minor. If they were big enough, we would make a big announcement.

Bob Bishop

There's no indication anyone else has seen this fellow. Of course, the investigation is still relatively new. Interviews with any staff, students and anybody who might have possibly seen anything are ongoing.

Jeff Wuite

A relatively small investment of time and money now may prevent severe damage and disruption of life and business in the future.

Carol Chastang

Now I have the opportunity to not only coach players once again but also to do so at a relatively high level. It is great to be back on that circuit.

Roger Harper

There are a lot of resources out there for larger businesses, but small business owners have relatively few ways to network and learn from each other. We see Impact as helping to fill this need.

Anita Bizzotto

I don?t think there are any coverage concerns. Everything looks to be relatively covered in this area. It?s more about capacity.

Jeremy Pate

I think it will be relatively short-lived.

Robert Stovall

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Fidel Castro

The signs are certainly that he will be one of the relatively conservative members of the court.

Craig Bradley

You have people concerned about inflation picking up, you have higher oil prices, and you have the talk of sanctions against Iran. All of these factors may keep investors relatively more interested in gold than they otherwise would be.

Jeffrey Christian

The early heat-up in temperatures and the relatively few number of days with rain have definitely contributed to the early heat-up in housing sales.

Lorraine Abercrombie

Ninety-five is historically a relatively high number.

Chris Mccarty

It's relatively good news, but it's only an editorial. Extra work needs to be done before that is confirmed.

Mike Ward

If yield continues to rise and stays at a higher level, bonds may become relatively attractive for some investors, which will hurt liquidity.

Young Chang

It's sobering. It suggests that there are relatively few inner cities that are thriving in the sense of job growth.

Michael Porter

It's going to be hard. It's a complicated task. I think Siebel just made it significantly more complex at a relatively late date.

Josh Greenbaum

I think it's relatively healthy. Nothing goes straight up. We know that. There needs to be a little consolidation before you can go higher. Between the situation in Iran and the Dow downgrades, it's probably been a nice little excuse to take a few profits.

Joseph Keating

The overall trend is that prices have flat-lined in the last three to four months because the (housing) inventory has increased. Supply is up, and demand has been relatively constant.

Jeff Katz

Most of us expect him to reiterate the Fed's commitment to fighting inflation and as long as he does that the dollar should hold up relatively well. This could be the trigger for the next move higher in the dollar.

Gavin Friend

When you juxtapose that with the apparent insensitivity of the demand curve, then what happens is that even though it's a relatively small reduction in supply, you need huge price increases to rein in demand.

Jeffrey Rubin

Most of us enjoy making them because it's a challenge to work in a very small format. It's something you can do relatively quickly. You don't have to invest as much time as in an art quilt or art doll. And it's tremendous fun to get them in the mail and see what someone else has done in that format.

Kathie Briggs

The impact of even relatively modest grants in Mongolia can be huge.

Dwight Gee

Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. This sale will be a truly exceptional event.

Peter Selley

A humane method does not necessarily mean a pain-free method. It doesn't bother me if, in the process of execution, a person feels some pain. ... The idea that a murderer is entitled to a painless death, which relatively few of us are going to have, I don't think is sustainable.

Kent Scheidegger

The First Folio preserves 18 of his plays, which otherwise would have been lost for all time. Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market.

Peter Selley

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

Michael Niemira

We believe, as more homeless people are assisted, and more families are kept in their relatively-stable, public-housing units, the community will be positively impacted.

Greg Meyers

Our guys were relatively positive for all the bad things that happened. The one thing I take out of this, is our guys didn't get down. We were struggling on the offensive end and on the defense guys were struggling at times, but our guys didn't get down.

Mark Matlak

Over the last couple of months the market has done relatively well and is now pausing to consolidate the gains.

Gary Dugan

In 2008, Nokia expects that 3 billion people will be owning a mobile phone, with much of this growth coming from markets like China, India, South-East Asia and Africa, where penetration levels are still relatively low.

Soren Petersen

Even if it's a relatively small investment, these decisions are very important.

Jane King

At these levels, inflation still looks relatively benign.

Lim Su Sian

Expectations are very high for both companies and it does worry me. After having relatively good quarters, the companies will probably want to be conservative.

Nitsan Hargil

It is a relatively fragmented marketplace. They seem convinced that the two lines are sufficiently differentiated that they don't constitute antitrust problems.

Martin Sankey

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Graham Norton

Back end capacity is relatively tight, mainly due to raw material issues and the pending Restriction of Hazardous Substances and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment environmental regulations.

Klaus Rinnen

If you can get a 25-year-old to your brand, get them a product that performs reliably and good dealer service, it's relatively easy to get that customer to buy the next five vehicles from you.

Chris Denove

We remain relatively optimistic about the housing market, but we do accept that activity fell sharply in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11.

Ian Shepherdson

I have a sense that what is going on in Turkey can be brought under control relatively easily.

Dr. Guenael Rodier

What's important for people to realize is that arsenic is relatively mobile, so it's something we have to be relatively concerned about - how to manage this huge stock of CCA wood that remains to be disposed of.

Tim Townsend

The low-hanging fruits in the non-performing asset (NPA) pools have been picked and any further reduction in NPA would come from resolution of the relatively intractable assets.

Ritesh Maheshwari

Going into the announcement, there was hope that they would be able to provide some upside because listings were relatively strong during the quarter.

Brian Keane

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I think the government presented a relatively streamlined case. It was a pretty coherent presentation of the witnesses.

Jonathan Halpern

Typically, the goal is to avoid someone as ideological as [Earl] Warren or as power-hungry and pretentious as [Warren] Burger. Roberts' relatively mild-mannered demeanor may serve him well.

Scott Moss

The tax burden among income groups has been relatively unchanged. The administration bent over backwards to make sure that was the case.

Dan Mitchell

The concern over gasoline availability coming into the second quarter is helping to keep crude oil markets relatively firm.

Kevin Norrish

Relatively few manufacturers have the luxury to choose a different product mix based on energy prices.

Colin Masson

Given that the first half of December is a relatively quiet time for travel, Delta has been able to re-accommodate most of the passengers on other Delta flights.

Michael Linenberg

It would be relatively easy for any terrorist group or rogue state to misuse nuclear materials, not as a nuclear bomb but as what's called a dirty bomb, where you mix the materials with conventional explosives.

Mark Johnston

Allegheny County has not signed a contract. We're hoping to get things wrapped up relatively soon.

Kevin Evanto

To me, the market is starting to look relatively expensive (and) we can expect some form of consolidation at some point in the future, as the market does not just keep going in one direction forever.

Daryll Owen

Cement was a relatively new material at that time.

Simon Winchester

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

H. L. Mencken

The main problem was qualifying first and second, which produced relatively poor grid positions and put Mark in the thick of the problems at the first corner, ... Antonio did an excellent job at short notice.

Frank Williams

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

Edmund Stoiber

There's been relatively little oil and gas development at the airport, so we have a lot of room to run if this proves successful.

Ed Mclaughlin

It's the largest single market in the country, and tends to have relatively low volatility.

Ed Hurley

The core business of the new firm is to purchase the best ideas for cultural production globally, and then improve the quality of our own products at a relatively lower cost.

Zhang Yu

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

There is no question that we have weathered a storm and are now entering a relatively stable investment climate. But due to prudent funding policies, the WRS continues to be in excellent financial condition. That is good news for all of our members.

Eric Stanchfield

Alliance management is the final piece of the business development structure. Formal alliance management groups tend to appear in relatively sophisticated organizations, and they command critical budget dollars.

Eric Bolesh

It will also mean a significant increase in demand for manufactured houses. Because it's a more accepted form and common form of housing [in the region], and it can be supplied relatively quickly.

Eric Belsky

The opening ceremonies are a tiring enough process. If you add all the demands of being flag-bearer and with a relatively heavy racing schedule, taking on that extra task is, as they've correctly evaluated, too great a load.

Emery Holmik

Buoyant spending and borrowing have not yet been inflationary, and will not necessarily become inflationary, partly because of relatively low global inflation and strong price competition from imports.

Elna Moolman

Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great deal when child care and other programs are cut to pay for tax cuts that largely benefit high-income families.

Ellen Russell

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Elizabeth Hurley

Japanese economic conditions are relatively good at this moment, and it will continue to be fairly robust. The Bank of Japan will start to raise rates toward the end of the year.

Eisuke Sakakibara

TUI underperformed in the past half year, making the stock relatively cheap and more interesting for investors.

Eggert Kuls

It never got acrimonious. They're both very reasonable people, they know each other well, they're friends. They have, I think in the scheme of things, a relatively modest disagreement.

Edward Gramlich

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly, and it has to be accepted . . . that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

Edmund Stoiber