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Mr. Koizumi remains willing to pursue structural reforms, so long as the economy permits. He's not going to abandon reforms. However, realistically it's also difficult to assume very quick progress.

Tomoko Fujii

There has been a structural shift away from credit cards toward home-equity loans.

Jonathan Basile

We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.

Brendan Gill

It lasted 100 years without any really visible signs of structural damage other than some dry rot and normal wood decay. Everyone is amazed that the building is as strong as it is.

Larry Paul

The individual cases of injustice put a human face on the systemic and structural lack of protection for people's rights.

Sharon Hom

I was thankful that the MRI showed that I just had inflammation in the shoulder, not any structural damage. If I can get it calmed down, I should be OK.

Blaine Boyer

We'll be directed by the NTSB to focus on certain structural components that may need to be brought up first.

Terry Labrecque

2003 was without any doubt a difficult year for our wines in the U.S., for accidental and structural reasons, ... This has been a wakeup call.

Francois Loos

In our view, Dell is pretty much the same company and we believe most have forgotten about its structural and cost advantages with its world-class supply chain and direct model.

Shaw Wu

If you have depression and chronic pain, it's important to figure out what came first. Chronic pain sufferers often get a stigma if we can't find a structural reason for the pain.

Verle Valentine

In Europe, the stronger growth and reductions in unemployment are now arriving, ... But for better performance to endure, Europe will require substantial structural reforms.

Lawrence Summers

Such an elephants' wedding may result in paralysis when it comes to brokering the type of structural changes Germany needs. At the most, you can expect half- hearted compromises.

Gero Neugebauer

If the violence in the Niger Delta subsides, the outcome of the presidential election in 2007 proves benign for political stability, and progress on structural reform continues, the ratings could improve.

Farouk Soussa

We will seek injunctive relief, prohibiting demolition of the structures until the court determines our claim, and we will seek an order providing for an independent inspection of the buildings by a structural engineer.

Jeff Baker

Carbon brakes offer the same stopping performance as steel brakes but with the added benefit of a significant weight savings, which ultimately increases fuel efficiency. Next-Generation 737s are already lighter than competing Airbus models. This structural efficiency is a fundamental reason why Next-Generation 737s fly farther, higher and with better fuel efficiency than the competition.

Mike Delaney

Structural engineers investigating this morning's incident have confirmed that this is an isolated situation that has not occurred anywhere else on site.

Martin Tidd

This is a celebration not just of passage of act but everything Social Security has done for past 70 years, ... Social Security is one of the hallmark programs of the New Deal era and I think it's important to remind people of the great structural reforms that took place during the Roosevelt era.

David Woolner

Although we believe GM can reduce capacity and structural costs over the long term, the company will emerge from restructuring with lower earnings power and operating leverage. With a lower dividend, the costs of investing in this longer-term restructuring story have increased dramatically.

Jon Rogers

We also judge that the dollar is vulnerable from a structural perspective. External imbalances in the U.S. are not a key market focus at the moment, but this could change on signs of weakening flow support.

Jens Nordvig

There is no market to discipline the pricing in this industry. What you need to spend the next 18 months doing while you still have the authority is to establish the structural conditions that would let market forces be created.

Mark Cooper

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Scott Henson

Structural nervousness creeps into the market from time to time but interest rates still favor the dollar.

Daragh Maher

ABB is one of the major beneficiaries of structural changes in the energy sector and upgrades to older grids.

Andrea Solari

It's a fantastic achievement. You feel a great sense of industry there, and you get a sense they're looking toward the next challenge. That's to get greater Germany working again. The political will for structural reform seems to be there.

John Llewellyn

The Chinese economy is deteriorating in the structural and cyclical sense, and the U.S. is a big risk if it has a hard landing. Remember [the rest of] Asia exports twice as much to the U.S. as it does to Japan.

Robert Subbaraman

We will do a structural analysis of the buildings and keep as many as we can.

Jim Popp

Legislative leaders are passing up a chance to reduce New York State's excessive debt burden - already one of the highest in the nation - and to achieve structural balance between revenues and spending.

Diana Fortuna

The latest data showing that land prices in Tokyo rose for the first time in 15 years has renewed confidence about Japan getting out of a soft patch. There are structural changes to draw in more money.

Hiroichi Nishi

Lifestyle remodels have clearly provided a short-term boost for Safeway shares. But we firmly believe that pricing is a much more relevant structural issue in the grocery industry. Safeway must permanently lower its pricing.

Jason Whitmer

We see the end of the dotcom bubble in Asia, cyclical things and structural changes in some sectors that will lead to a changing in the way some workforces are deployed.

Andrew Chetham

Which could have triggered a chain of events, structural damages, a fire and an engine breakdown.

Transport Canada

The departments are working very hard to workout the structural issues. We expect this to continue over the summer.

Gordon Leversee

These conduct restrictions are necessary to allow the structural remedy sufficient time to restore competitive conditions in the software industry.

Joel Klein

Whatever the color of Germany's new government will ultimately be, the pace of structural reforms is likely to be slow.

Holger Schmieding

As an individual investor, you're basically lending to the government for an additional 30 years compared to the 10-year note, but getting no extra risk premium. That being said, there will be structural demand for the new bond.

Adam Brown

These are unprecedented surplus volumes, reflecting the structural changes of China becoming the factory of the world.

Dong Tao

Sharp declines in the government?s external debt indicators and structural improvements that, over time, should help Pakistan?s export capacity motivated the change in outlook for the foreign currency rating.

Agost Benard

The healthy expansion is expected to continue drawing on strong internal dynamics, particularly, growth in the PRC and structural improvements in South Asia.

Ifzal Ali

We had a lot of structural damage and broken poles, and when you're in a bucket 35 feet in the air and it's windy, repairs take longer than under ideal conditions.

Anita Steeves

It's suggesting this structural change playing out in the U.S. economy seems to still be continuing.

Paul Ferley

It was fast - it happened in a matter of hours. But it probably was a gradual degradation of your structural system. You started increasing the pressure. For a concrete all, it could be cracks growing, water finding its way through crack. That increases rate of growth of the cracks. Add that to your possible sheet piling failure. It just keeps progressing through the structure.

Guillermo Ramirez

The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity.

Don Arnold

Based on the reports I received, the fire appears to be cosmetic and superficial. There was no structural damage to the building and there was no damage to the operating equipment in the warehouse.

Steve Tyndal

It's terrible news for the community and the employees at Aldi. I'm sure it's seeking to make a structural change, but it's very unfortunate for the community.

Dennis Hinkle

The current situation appears to be the most severe structural problem we have yet encountered.

George Fulton

People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.

Yuriko Koike

The biggest issue in this election is postal privatization. It's the symbol of structural reform.

Takenori Kanzaki

Any proposition containing the word 'is' creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

Alfred Korzybski

I hope to explain (to the U.S. officials) the Japanese government's continued efforts toward structural reform.

Sadakazu Tanigaki

We still saw growth last year even with higher oil prices. Countries have adjusted, with interest rates still low and structural reforms proceeding. Risk premiums continue to fall, making stock markets more attractive.

Luz Lorenzo

It's a technical, structural disaster. This is long overdue.

Phil Barbarello

It's wrong to assume that the dollar will start to fall as the Fed stops raising rates. What we could see is a transition to a structural support for the dollar as the trade position improves.

Steve Pearson

We remain concerned about the company's long-term outlook and management's preparedness to address the challenges. Still, built-in expectations or valuation appear to be low, and 2006 should benefit from the structural elimination of Brazil and a year of disappointing results in 2005.

Mark Swartzberg

We wanted to eliminate the risk of anything more coming out and getting in a mechanism somewhere. It was important to get this off as soon as we can just because we don't know the structural state of it.

Pete Hasbrook

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that "something else" that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.

Fannie Hurst

We're limited to 35 people at the time for good reasons: the fire code and structural reasons. We know the community is anxious. We ourselves (the Livingston Arts Council members) are anxious.

Brent Earl

After Katrina, there were a bunch of refineries which didn't sustain structural damage but couldn't turn the power back on.

Sarah Emerson

India is a long-term structural growth story that cannot be ignored. There may be a few hiccups along the way, but it's an emerging market that's going to evolve into a mature market over time. That's the growth story that people can participate in by investing in India over the long term.

Sandeep Kothari

China's efforts to improve corporate governance and undertake a broad range of structural and institutional reforms will further enhance its competitive position as a financial and trade center of gravity in the region.

Homi Kharas

One wishes that he would say the problem is not simply a budgetary one. The problem is a structural one. The Republicans can properly fault the Clinton administration for giving so little attention to the restructuring of the post-Cold War force.

Andrew Bacevich

It may well be that things will die down now. But the structural dynamic still points toward civil war, and the institutions that could restrain it have become severely weakened.

Joost Hilterman

The Gore approach to budget surpluses is much more prudent; the Bush approach to structural reforms of the entitlement programs is more promising. They have set up a good dichotomy that people can look at.

Robert Bixby

That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.

Craig Scott

The risk is that the deficit is rather worse than the market is looking for and if that's the case it may swing the focus back to structural dollar negatives and away from the interest rate focus.

Adam Cole

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Edith Wharton

The Dun Glen claim block lies at the intersection of three separate structural trends whose extensions host several major gold deposits. We are excited to be on the ground in Nevada and look forward to evaluating the results of our initial exploration program in the coming weeks.

Matt Hughes

The problems in the credit card division are structural, and kind of long-term.

Richard Bove

The fact it held up during the hurricanes is amazing. I don't think it compromises the safety of the public. The structural engineers, from my recollection, did not tell us we need to abandon the building.

Ric Holt

There were a lot of architecture and structural things that they had to grind out.

Jane Mcvey

This exquisite property is the culmination of a long search to find the perfect location to launch Shangri-La in France. We aim to combine Shangri-La's renowned Asian hospitality, accommodations and dining, with the site's romantic history, privileged location and structural attributes, to create another gem in Paris' crown.

Giovanni Angelini

It was recognized about 20 years ago that the building had many problems. There was no structural steel in the building at all.

Leroy Radanovich

There are very important structural changes occurring that will set the stage for important improvements in the world economy. There's a great deal of optimism in the air and a great deal of opportunities.

David Hale

The transmission mechanism for inflation from political instability is usually through the exchange rate. However, this time around, the peso quickly recovered and I would expect it to remain strong for the rest of the year based on continuing structural economic reforms.

Luz Lorenzo

Europe's citizens do not seem convinced that the bitter medicine of continued structural reforms will cure the stasis that afflicts much of the Continent. It is a failure of politics that people have not come to see that the more they want to retain the attractive European way of life, the more the way they work will have to change.

Raghuram Rajan

The market is sensitive to structural factors at the moment and the current account deficit will be a negative in the medium-term for the dollar.

Kamal Sharma

The local power outages and structural damage can have a long-lasting effect, but it isn't wide-reaching.

Paul Walsh

If that was to occur, that is going to cause major structural damage and could cause loss of life. It's my responsibility to make sure everyone is safe.

John Sparkman

Long before they ever get to the point they need to be taken out from the standpoint of a structural deficiency, they end up being replaced because of a functional deficiency.

Marc Grunert

An enormous failure of the system has clearly been exposed, but this system failure is associated with the long-term failure of this country to deal responsibly and effectively with the structural problems of poverty in America.

Michael Grant

With the aircraft on jacks, small excitation forces will be applied to the airframe. Measurements of the structural response for a range of excitation frequencies will be made using accelerometers.

Mark Cousin

This is not trade based on comparative advantage. We are confronted with an economic crisis in the U.S. steel industry, stemming directly from the structural mismanagement by several governments of their economies. Neither the U.S. government, nor its steel industry, can afford to wait for the trade law process to take its course.

Keith Busse

The first conditions were economic, including the passage of structural reform policies that favored economic growth. We've also had low interest rates and low inflation, which is a big change from the past.

Javier Viveros

The world has changed. We are going through a structural change in the economy that takes time.

Sam Kahan

The market continues depressed with no positive news coming out from within Brazil nor outside. This financial help for Argentina bought them time, but the structural problems continue.

Luiz Marcos Prudencio

There's been a lot of talk in the market that from now on we will see a return to structural fundamentals, away from interest rate arguments.

Johan Javeus

The structural story has changed.

Thomas Melendez

It is impossible to expect that things will improve in a short period of time at Sony, ... The company has only just begun a begun a real structural reform.

Masaki Iso

No one was hurt, thank God, ... Some of their houses have structural damage though.

Dorothy Watson

We have water infiltration in the house, as well as we have structural problems.

Janet Mintzer

The structural damage is everywhere. And the winds are still strong.

Felix Gonzalez

Security's not just a day-to-day concern. In this case, it is a structural issue as well. The structure of the plant doesn't protect against this type of attack. If it was being built from scratch today, it could be designed to protect against one.

Richard Webster

We expect to see significant damage to residential and commercial properties near and to the east of Rita's track. Fortunately, the heavy commercial and industrial areas of Port Arthur and Beaumont — with their numerous refineries — were to the left of the storm's track, where wind speeds are lower, so we do not expect to see significant structural damage to the refineries.

Jayanta Guin

The commission's order, with respect to the level of our rates, is disappointing. We are satisfied that the commission approved such structural changes as the fuel clause, timely recovery of investments in pollution control equipment and realistic depreciation rates.

James Ludwig

It's unlikely that the next administration will stray far from pursuing structural reforms. Even if the Democratic Party of Japan takes power, they will continue to push for fiscal reform.

Takahide Kiuchi

We need to solve structural problems, such as agrarian reform and the structural problems of housing, employment, health, education and roads.

Raul Reyes

We have made excellent progress in the structural steel business since we began shipping wide-flange beams in 2002. Recent strength in non-residential construction has led to a record order backlog at Columbia City and has resulted in current production and shipping rates of nearly one million tons per year.

Keith Busse

Certainly [opposition candidate Edmund] Stoiber would have been better received by the market because of his plans for structural reform. The government has not got much of a majority so we can't expect much on reform going forward.

Gareth Evans

Firms with particular expertise in construction consulting, architecture, and civil and structural engineering, will be looking forward to the tender process.

Ntsekhe Moiloa

There are well-documented structural impediments to moving quickly in this industry.

Jon Rogers

Near term direction will be determined by flows from Mutual Funds and corporate results. I expect stock specific activity to continue. Use declines to buy this market as we are in a structural bull run.

Ashu Kakkar

The government is trying to proceed with structural reforms. The rating agencies have already reacted somewhat.

Nicolas Schlotthauer

What really has been the convincing point for the emergency response community and the civil and mechanical communities who focus on structural damage has been seeing the data; once you have seen the data it becomes very compelling.

Robin Murphy

Evidence is there that a structural, mechanical or electrical failure of some kind led to the explosion.

Lee Kreindler

We don't have any new figures, but we are concerned that the aftershocks may have cause more structural damage to buildings in the town.

Michel Bonnardeaux

As most of you know, Sony Music Entertainment is implementing a series of strategic, structural changes that are necessary to position the company for future growth.

Andrew Lack

There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot of speculation built into oil prices -- the majors will have to see that turn into fundamentals in order to change their plans.

Jeb Armstrong

There has been no deterioration. It doesn't affect the structural condition of the deck. It could use some maintenance, but structurally everything's still looking good.

Marc Grunert

Because of Katrina we will have a pause in September. The aftermath of shocks is still not appreciated and oil prices are still high. The effect is that with the background of structural problems and (losing cyclical support) the dollar is in a phase where it should weaken.

Adam Myers

The trade release has reminded the market of the structural weakness of the dollar.

Paul Mackel

I have been telling them to secure against non-structural damage ... This may not be necessary for the current quakes but is always a good idea.

Bill Phillips

The relatively high inventory levels are providing some cushion to the market, but of course demand is rising in the U.S.. We are in a more comfortable situation than a few months ago, but the structural problems this market has haven't gone away.

Francisco Blanch

Alongside a rejuvenated product range, structural improvements in marketing continue to bring positive effects.

Michael Kern

Today's trade figures are a stark reminder to the structural deficiencies of the U.S. economy and the reason for our negative dollar outlook for the year despite (its) recent bounce.

Ashraf Laidi

We would expect the seasonally adjusted total to decline in the coming months, but there is not likely to be any major turnaround because companies are still restructuring and the structural problems on the labor market are still there.

Juergen Michels

The dollar's cyclical factors are waning but they haven't banished totally. The market is keen on switching to structural dollar stress factors but it's too early -- we also had strong housing figures from the U.S. last week.

Armin Mekelburg

It's good news, even though the verdict has long been priced into market expectations. The prospect of a CDU-led majority in both chambers of parliament will greatly improve the outlook for further structural changes.

Bernd Karstedt

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

Art Perez

The club rooms at Mansfield Park are not looking the best at the moment. We are waiting on a structural engineer coming in, but all the functions from now until after Christmas have been cancelled.

Billy Murray

This is shedding like a cat, ... Right now, it's so fragile, it has no structural integrity.

David Hughes

Structural reforms and fiscal consolidation allow the Bank of Israel to experiment with keeping real interest rates at a lower plateau compared to the past.

Serhan Cevik

There has been no structural damage. We have been very lucky.

Ted Duncan

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

Sergei Prokofiev

The unexpectedly strong result is likely to prompt yen buying particularly from foreign investors who take it as a sign that Japan's structural reforms will make progress.

Tatsuro Karitani

Since the beginning, we've been very fortunate. There have been no reports of injuries to any persons, and the only structural damage is one gazebo in one backyard of one property.

Jon Fleischman

The combined growth and external sector strengths allow Chinese policy makers to better address the country's structural economic challenges, and they have been taking the opportunity to do so.

James Mccormack

Once the jacking operation was complete, our structural engineers . . . came to the conclusion that it was simply not salvageable, and in the interest of safety, the best course of action would be to replace it.

Peter Graves

Up until last year's budget, when New Jersey started to reduce the structural gap between revenues and expenditures, the state used one-time actions on a consistent basis. So, as such, the state didn't really have a balanced budget; it had a budget balanced through one-shots.

Richard Marino

In the past, the governments that have taken power have found an economic situation that is so serious that it has required the adoption of significant adjustment measures, which have cost them all their political capital and they have not been able to meet the structural problems of the economy.

Trevor Alleyne

When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.

Adam Beach

Several of us have invested in low-cost countries, but our preference is to be in the United States. But you've got to have a manufacturing agenda that takes account of all of these structural issues. If not, it will keep on migrating.

Wes Smith

If the next premier after reform-minded Koizumi raises concerns about slower progress in structural reforms or debates about the consumption tax, it would be negative for Japanese stocks.

Kazuhiro Takahashi

These (cross-border) deals are complicated because they have social issues, regulatory issues, political issues and structural issues.

Hamid Biglari

Most banking systems in the Asia-Pacific region have improved their credit profiles, thanks to stable economic conditions and continuing structural improvements. This is in spite of rising oil prices and interest rates threatening the broader economic recovery.

Ping Chew

There was some minor damage. Some shutters and shingles were destroyed. But there was no structural damage or water damage. Thank God there was no water damage. We were just so grateful we actually had a home to go back to.

John Castle

We had two structural reports that said it was just not going to be economically reasonable to fix the building.

Dennis Fernandez

The heavy commercial and industrial areas of Port Arthur and Beaumont -- with their numerous refineries -- were to the left of the storm's track, where wind speeds are lower, so we do not expect to see significant structural damage to the refineries.

Jayanta Guin

We're still discussing the situation with the Sheraton. We're not convinced that the repairs took care of the structural problems. ...We want to make sure everyone is safe before we open that thing.

Charles Feldmann

The State of the Union address obviously provides him the chance to get the attention of the American public. But it is not going to undo the structural problem he faces. You have a situation in Iraq that is not going to get better in the short term. ... I see him not having a really big change in popularity.

John Geer

Our results suggest that meditation can produce experience-based structural alterations in the brain. We also found evidence that meditation may slow down the aging-related atrophy of certain areas of the brain.

Sara Lazar

The outlook statement talks of continued weakness in recruitment markets which management argue -- more persuasively than other peers -- is cyclical rather than structural given a softer public sector in late 2005.

Andrew Walsh

The financial problems of an institute the size of IMSS require structural change.

Roberto Vega

Just because a bridge has structural deficiencies doesn't mean it's unsafe. It merely means it's deteriorating.

Derrick Mason

The hurricane was the initial reason we came, but when we see calamities that have been in existence for years, we fix porches, floors as well as structural repair.

Hank Chardos

We face structural problems which go far beyond any short-term crisis.

Jane Hall

Funds with a short-term strategy are moving around. But the lack of visibility in the outlook for Japan's structural reforms and uncertainty over the U.S. economy, U.S. stocks and the attitude of investors there mean longer-term funds sit tight.

Nobuaki Kurisu

Medium- and long-term development prospects will depend on the securing of macroeconomic stability and the improvement in the Greek economy's structural competitiveness.

Nicholas Garganas

The new five-engine SSME cluster, mounted on a stage that will certainly be very different from the orbiter in its propellant feed and thrust-vector control characteristics and its structural, aerodynamic, and environmental behavior, will require considerable engineering attention.

Jerry Grey

With ongoing structural deficits for several years, there's no reason to believe the price [of aluminum] is going down anytime soon.

Victor Lazarovici

It gives the impression Koizumi wanted someone who has political clout and who can support his structural reforms. Merging or privatizing government-affiliated banks will be positive for commercial lenders and brokerages because it will mean more business for them.

Yoji Takeda

This is a material shortfall. It's a sign of some structural problems at Netscape.

David Readerman

We saw minimal structural damage. The lid did blow off the external conveyor.

John Lane

This is a day for celebration. But tomorrow when Hong Kong wakes up, it will still face structural challenges.

Dong Tao

Overall, I don't see much structural change, and don't see how the dollar can get much relief from these numbers.

Axel Merk

We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

Thaddeus Mathis

The analysis we've done -- the rigorous structural analysis based on the last inspection report -- indicates that this bridge should not have fallen down on its own accord without something else happening to it.

Gary Hoffman

The Chinese economy faces four types of structural challenges ? over investment, too much dependence on external demand, inefficiency in resource use, and regional disparity and income inequality.

Yiping Huang

There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story, ... It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.

Chetan Ahya

In my view, at this point, it is probably more important to foster a structural reform of mindset.

Kuniko Inoguchi

They would have been impacted by the waves and rain but not by the blunt force. There will be parts of the Gulf where they will be up and running in 48 hours, but there will be other extremes of structural damage that may take weeks or months to repair.

Chris Mcgill

The flood never broke a pane of glass. There was no real structural damage by the flood, just a lot of mud on the floors, but we got the chance to update the building and do some renovations that were needed.

Jeff Kidd

Turning around the severe structural problems of the Japanese economy will take a few years of sustained effort.

David Satterwhite

Although many polls show that U.S. consumers are intent on altering their behavior (i.e., driving less), we still have not seen significant structural shifts in behavior.

Edward Meir

The fact that you've gained no purchasing power in 11 years is discouraging and problematic for people in the bottom 20 percent. On the other hand, if you look at other states that have some of the similar structural characteristics of Connecticut, you see that their bottom 20 percent are worse off. Things are bad, but they could be worse.

Edward Deak

The real problem is structural: retail consolidation, difficulties in the classified auto space and competition from other media.

Ed Atorino