We believe today's investment environment presents excellent opportunities for those with buy-and-hold strategies, and we encourage all investors ? particularly those with less experience in the markets ? to stay focused on their long-term investment goals.

Mark Sutton

We will now use competitive strategies everywhere possible placing priority on the use of local and small disadvantaged businesses as we move into the long-term recovery phase.

David Paulison

It was interesting to see the distribution. Over half [of the participants] chose five years or more, so most people doing this are thinking in the long-term.

David Ewalt

Some teams are going to regret [the long-term free agent] deals in a few years. The salary cap could go down next year. That would put some teams in quite a bind. We're committed to playing our young players next season.

George Mcphee

Most life insurance companies lack the critical mass to survive long term. The sector is highly fragmented and rife with overcapacity. We do not see how most of the smaller players can effectively compete and remain profitable in this environment.

Rob Haines

Water diversion is only a short-term measure to curb salt tides, as it will be forced to stop if there is not sufficient water in the river's upper reaches.

Chen Kaizhi

Long-term U.S. interest rates have risen as the market has started to price in the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will keep raising rates beyond 5 percent.

Masamichi Koike

Let me use a clinical term to describe parents today. They're nuts.

Kevin Leman

Even in long-term use cases, the plaintiffs are going to have to show that it was this drug and not their pre-existing risk factors and medical conditions that caused their heart attacks. That's just going to be a steep hill for these plaintiffs to climb.

Chuck Harrell

If you're going to try and get in them after the hurricane, you better be bullish really long term. Capacity is going to be back online soon and that could drive prices down even more.

Mark Roach

This is the best possible time for big companies to go after online opportunities, ... This is also the best possible time to start a company, if you're willing to build for the long-term.

Marc Andreessen

[Some analysts think next year's Congressional elections already pushed reform to the 2003 agenda.] I don't actually think Sept. 11 will have any long-term impact on the Social Security debate, ... 2002 is an election year, so I always thought Congress would take up the issue in 2003.

Michael Tanner

The American handling of occupied Iraq has undermined the prospect of long-term democratization.

London School

My goal is to help small districts in the short term, ... Once the cap hits 15 percent it would be permanent but I'm realistic about the legislative process and how it works. If it comes down to whether or not it will pass I'll have to talk to everyone involved in my district and see if a compromise can't be reached.

Brett Davis

This move will have a short-term negative impact on the equity markets. However, it is longer term, a positive.

John Person

If you are going to include numbers and music the term is getting meaningless.

Julian Elliott

In essence, these flies had twice the memory of their normal counterparts. When RISC was knocked out, so was long-term memory, and flies would remember to alter their behavior in the presence of the shock-linked odor for perhaps an hour; that is, they only had short-term memory. When the pathway was normally active, the flies remained averse to the odor for a day or more.

Sam Kunes

I don?t see anything long-term to suggest lower prices. We may see some fluctuations around the trend, but the trend will be rising oil prices.

Jim Eaton

I don't think there is going to be any impact on the consumer, even long term. If Delta goes out of business and Northwest goes out of business, someone is going to pick up those flights. Someone is going to jump in and help those customers.

Dr. Matt Willen

I think investors are still trying to figure out whether this is a fundamental recovery or a short term stabilization, ... I don't think people can tell right now.

Apjit Walia

Short-term, (the poisoning) will have a big impact on the locals but long-term, it could once again be one of the best still-water trout fisheries anywhere in the country.

Rob Anderson

Barbour is ideologically opposed to tax increases, and he apparently wants to finish his term saying he avoided one, even in the face of this tremendous disaster.

Joe Atkins

Mental illness existed in America 200 or 300 years ago, only under a different name. We've developed a wider array of behaviors that we now term mental illness.

Kathleen Gerson

Chemicals pumped into Earth's atmosphere decades ago still are affecting ozone levels today. This problem was a long time in the making, and because of the persistence of these chlorine compounds, there is no short-term fix.

Sherwood Roland

We're capturing share and winning the deals that fuel long-term gains.

Anne M. Mulcahy

In the short term, natural gas suppliers might feel they have an enormous amount of leverage. In almost every instance, that position was a flawed obsession, revealing the gas producer to be an unreliable supplier.

David Victor

We wanted to build a program that highlights artists before they headline our clubs and amphitheaters. We've been throwing around the term internally that this is an artist incubator.

Jim Cannella

They haven't disclosed their long-term impact, frankly, because they don't know it yet. It's an unknown timeline for redevelopment right now.

Brian Gordon

We sit here 10 to 15 minutes, don't have a quorum and go home. My term is up next month and if it was going to be the same, I didn't want to continue.

Paul Gallant

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Our main focus is to move the long-term animals. We've had some of them a year.

Cherie Owen

For example, if the allowance is $5 a week, I would provide a child with four dollar bills and four quarters. I would minimally have the child get in the habit of setting 50 cents of the $5 away for long-term saving and investing.

Sam Renick

I think long term, even though we're down today, you're seeing some energy and drug stocks responding in a way that suggests the market believes he is going to cut rates again this year.

Scotty George

Charismatic is an overused term, but that came up frequently with Jim. He hit it off so well with faculty and staff and students. Jim was consistently one of the folks people wanted to continue visiting with.

Bill Thornton

Term limits did have an effect. There was one less chair for them.

Brian Rothenberg

The recent deterioration in operating trends and our investment in transforming the business will see earnings fall in the near term.

Sol Trujillo

Although asthma experts around the world have recognized the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids in treating asthma, their long-term effects in children were not clear.

Claude Lenfant

We're building a log-term football culture with programs such as this. It's for coaches from minor football up to junior and college.

Rob Stevenson

The growers feel very adamant that the eradication program needs to continue. Without this money, there was a lot of concern about the long-term success of the program.

Casey Pace

He carries a lot of credibility in the marketplace. He's well respected in terms of his knowledge and his experience at the Fed. He is seen as very capable and credible that would prove reassuring in the near term.

Alex Beuzelin

I'm still relatively bullish on a short-term basis due to the faster-than-expected U.S. advances in Iraq, but I'll be changing my position pretty soon because there's no catalyst out there to sustain gains.

Florent Brones

In its assessment of the monetary policy stance, the monetary board noted that prevailing conditions continue to provide room for the [central bank] to keep its policy rates steady in the near term.

Amando Tetangco

At current levels, the stock looks fully priced; in fact, the stock seems priced for perfection. While we still believe a takeout longer term is possible ... the stock at this price seems to anticipate most of that as well.

William Drewry

We are confident that tight and well-scheduled operations with sufficient capital expenditure will lead to more solid growth in reserves and production, securing stronger long-term growth for the company.

Fu Chengyu

We value our partnership with RBA and look forward to continuing to provide the integrated software framework that will support their long-term strategy for success.

Wayne Usie

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector. The Government says it will allow FDI in branded goods. But it is a loose term as anything can be branded. We want the Government to specify the items where FDI is allowed.

Sitaram Yechury

It could in the short term.

Taro Aso

It's a very loaded term. The actual definition is determined by state governments, who define what taking 'unfair advantage' of a crisis is. Attorneys General monitor these situations closely.

Sean Comey

If it is only short-term money I think the budget can handle that.

Chris Edwards

We have been hearing that further headcount reductions among PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards employees may occur shortly as the company begins to implement its longer-term vision for Fusion.

Robert Stimson

Not in the short term.

Katsuaki Watanabe

The council did not change the charter. The charter says, 'Neither the mayor or council can serve more than two consecutive four-year terms.' This is my second four-year term.

David Piper

The long-term absence of relief agencies could force many, many thousands of people into displacement.

Peter Kessler

I think the near-term strategy is: focus on getting listed share.

Richard Repetto

I'm not saying he can't be replaced. But it's going to be very tough in the short term to find somebody to replace him.

Allan Ross

I think there's a kind of 'buyers' strike,' for lack of a better term, ... Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Frank Gannon

A one-term governor feels the same pressures - to put themselves into a position to be able to say at the end of their four years that they have accomplished certain things without regard to their long-term sustainability.

Quentin Kidd

The longer-term up-trend in the index is intact. Inventories are extremely lean, global growth is firming and there are mounting unfilled orders.

Daniel Jester

I hate the term 'match' because I want to 'better' people. But in terms of intensity, we couldn't even match them until it was 32-8. Georgetown was dialed in at every facet of the game tonight.

Kevin Burton

What it really boils down to is what radiation dose would you allow [people to be exposed to] in the long term and where do you measure that dose?

Tom Cochran

I fear that the approach being taken by this administration to move the Vision forward over the near term may make it very difficult to sustain the initiative beyond 2008.

Bart Gordon

The prime minister has decided to contest the result and to use a 'mutilated victory' as a long-term weapon.

Massimo Franco

I don't think we're going to pullback right now, but I think we could pullback because we have been in this advancing phase. Our summer rally, it's been sort of a hard one to find. But we've been having a summer rally. So we could at some point, when we start running into resistance levels in the S&P and the Dow, have some sort of a pullback. But it will be a short term one.

Bernadette Murphy

[Other industries will likely feel the pinch. Hotels may be left with more empty rooms, and destinations may have fewer paying visitors.] The fact is, in the short term, there's going to be a pretty significant impact on travel generally, ... We have seen a severe drop-off in reservations over the next few days.

Marc Grossman

These are issues we need to embrace and develop long-term strategies for. If we do so, our community will continue to be a marvel of growth and opportunity.

Bob Abberger

As a long-term business we should begin to look beyond that [hydrocarbons], beyond petroleum - to the energy needs of the world over the next half century. And that is what we are doing, starting today.

Lord Browne

It was hung in 'tobacco houses' for six to eight weeks. The term 'tobacco barn' came later.

David Nielsen

Congress did not intend the term 'navigable waters' to be given the broadest possible constitutional interpretation.

M. Reed Hopper

I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.

Kurt Ritchie

Apart from placing upward pressure on the yields in these markets, short-term rates may also respond, higher.

Colen Garrow

Much to our delight, it appears that this intensive therapy introduced years and years ago seems to have this long-term benefit on heart disease and stroke.

David Nathan

Demand for poultry will definitely be affected in the short term as people will be concerned. It's a knee-jerk scare.

Shashi Kapur

As a result, some patients become more seriously ill than they would have been otherwise, some experience long-term disability and some die.

Sir Liam Donaldson

Those that rise fastest experience corrections long-term.

Jack Mccabe

My broader concern is with all these bills, how much are we taking out of long-term savings?

Jim Magagna

The judge was probably using the term evidence loosely, because we haven't heard the first word from the first witness yet.

William Wilkinson

That's a pretty disturbing trend in terms of the red knot's long-term outlook.

Martin Mchugh

From that experience, I can promise you that the likelihood of a sale to qualified buyers who want to keep the team where it is, is hugely impacted by how few liabilities, long-term, are on the books. I know it's tempting to play fantasy hockey and say this player or that player would certainly add to the value of the franchise.

Mark Sauer

I remain very optimistic about our long-term opportunities to grow profitably in the domestic marketplace.

Jack Greenberg

Until we develop an interim solution and ultimate long-term fix, we're certain we can do that. But it's uncertain how long it will take.

Steven Arabia

It's so nice to see something happy happen around here. I see a lot of good and bad in long-term care, but something like this is so wonderful.

Pam Hansen

To have a long term political influence the leaders of this movement need to translate the anger and hope that people are expressing in the streets into a concrete set of proposals for change.

Louis Desipio

We believe that the oil ministers are inclined to defend a $55 per barrel floor in the near term.

Adam Sieminski

While some people might question the importance of a correction that changes the long-term trend by only 0.035ºC per decade, for us the most important thing is to produce a climate dataset that is as accurate and reliable as humanly possible.

John Christy

I think that the company still has a good handle on what its longer-term strategy has to be -- a diversified business model with greater emphasis on training and tech services.

Ursula Moran

Selection of a CRM vendor is a marriage, not a date. Enterprise buyers must think carefully about the vendor partner they choose and understand the long-term commitment of these decisions.

William Band

Lockdown, I guess is a term that might have a bad connotation and associated with other facilities. However, this is good for the students at this point because it keeps them calm.

Bob Zavala

All governments must be prepared to deal with the infectious diseases because they could be overwhelming this year or next year, but the long-term problem is with the chronic diseases.

Robert Beaglehole

I don't think we should be ashamed of the North Dakota Lottery. It is a very highly visible, very growth-oriented industry. As the director for the lottery, I don't think I would have a long-term tenure ... if I did not intend to promote sales of lottery tickets.

Chuck Keller

There's no near-term catalyst to buy it.

Chris Chaney

The vast majority of the city, we see nothing that is a problem for long-term exposure.

Tom Harris

It will help investors seeking to better match assets and liabilities and will benefit the Treasury by modestly reducing our short-term funding volatility, broadening our customer base, lowering operational risk and reducing supply uncertainty.

Brookly Mclaughlin

Charter schools haven't been around long enough and don't serve a large enough part of the population to know their long-term effect. We still can't tell if traditional public schools will rise to the challenge or be further dragged down.

Michael Kirst

One of the best ways to gauge the long-term value of a destination is by the investments made in keeping it current and fresh.

Linda Dimario

This is a very prudent, pragmatic and cost effective request according to the long-term view.

Raymond Brown

I think you need to explain what the term means and that it's a mean and derogatory term. And then you have to help your child to understand that it's the other child's problem who called them that name.

Alvin Poussaint

Long-term mortgage rates will more than likely rise over the next few months, albeit modestly compared to shorter-term rates.

Frank Nothaft

The long-term forecasts suggest we will have a hotter-than usual rest of summer and fall, with a continued strong hurricane season.

Bruce Bell

President Bush is trying to regain his footing and develop some policy momentum for his second term, and this is just another weight around his ankles.

Cal Jillson

He's eminently reasonable. He'll react to the situation, but he'll maintain a long-term focus on price stability.

Mark Gertler

We have also observed that just like in the other parts of the world as well as in the United States (monetary policy transmission) has not had much effect on the longer term rates.

Rakesh Mohan

The biggest issue in India obviously remains the regulatory environment, which makes the near-term investment in India likely to be significantly less than the investment which we see in China.

Mark Thomas

Psychologically, in the long term, this could have a very profound impact in the sense that Israelis are grieving for an Arab monarch or identifying with an Arab nation, something that's never happened before. I think, however, in the short term, if we judge it in political terms, it's not going to have much of an effect.

Chemi Shalev

Following the acquisition, Reebok's clients have to get used to a different company, and so in the short term they may prefer to cut their orders.

Karim Bertoni

Markets looked poised for further gains. Expect volatility in the short-term.

Ashu Kakkar

Long term care doesn't just mean hospitalization. It must also include supervised housing, sheltered workshops, access to outpatient care, all of the things necessary to avoid a recurrence of the factors that precipitated the initial suicide attempt.

Dr. Ole Thienhaus

I don't remember what he said. I've got a short-term memory.

Adam Loewen

Names that are broad, like Food.com, have no value unless you create meaning underneath them. It approaches the generic and defines what you do. It has a short-term advantage but in the long run limits you.

Peter Sealey

Basically we're asking you to call it a MORB instead of a MARB. Using the term mining advancement implies a bias. I believe mining oversight would be more suitable.

Cynthia Pryor

That is the long-term promise.

Conrad Burke

If you have bars that fluctuate up and down dramatically, you know that this is not a short-term investment vehicle.

Mercer Bullard

The inflation risk in the short, medium and long term have risen.

Axel Weber

All of forms of power generation create carbon. Some sort of carbon sequestration is the most likely intermediate-term carbon solution.

Walter Higgins

The market is short-term oriented, so even a small rise in commodity prices drives the market as potential future earnings.

Glenn Macneill

We're still in a negative trend. Long-term interest rates are too high, earnings estimates are still too high. We've had seven out of eight down weeks, so we saw a little bounce in the beginning of this week. But the downward pressure hasn't eased.

Robert Bloom

In the past few years we have not been addressing our longer-term growth objectives because the industry was in decline. We felt it would be naive to talk about growth when we knew our customers weren't spending. But in 2003 we said that the industry had stabilized and I would characterize 2004 as a year when the IT industry will begin its next growth cycle.

John Joyce

This should alleviate the problem for the short term, for the next five or so years.

Tim Brown

While our business will be affected by macro-economic conditions in the near term, we are confident in the long-term outlook for our infrastructure products and services.

David Peterschmidt

The big question is when and how much long-term interest rates are going to rise, because that affects development projects at all levels.

Brian Rooney

Short term, I see some initial and point solutions being deployed in conjunction with other solutions and the opportunity for integration services and support.

Greg Schulz

Imports seem to have continued to grow rapidly, reflecting higher energy prices. The near-term outlook for exports remains positive.

Paul Sheard

Nasser discouraged or drove out a lot of talented people by focusing on short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment in cars and trucks. He made a lot of people think that the best contribution they could make to Ford was to stay home.

Jim Hossack

Our ratings are supposed to look through very near-term events, and most banks we rate with exposure to the area are well enough diversified.

Rodrigo Quintanilla

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

Daisaku Ikeda

Even with the denial of immediate plans, there are expectations of stock buyout in the medium term. If they completely rule this out, however, the stock will quickly fall.

Tomas Taterka

They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment to Cincinnati over the long term. Cincinnati as a hub is not going away, and this is just tweaking it to make it more effective.

Doug Abbey

If they weren't able to put those players on long-term IR, they wouldn't be able to call many guys up.

Jimmy Roy

All in all, the rise seems moderate, so it shouldn't have a long-term impact on the share price.

Theo Kitz

The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's still a bit of worry about that.

Francisco Andrade

This kind of face-to-face competition will hurt performance. That's why it's important to stay profitable over the long term. Some local retailers have been declining.

Sun Luan

The SBA lending environment has been active, and we expect it to continue as such. In the short term, the budget decisions are going to mean very little, if anything, and I presume the same thing will hold over the long term.

Rich Grant

In the long term, I remain positive but the question is how much longer will we have up and downs, but mostly downs, like we've been having for two or three weeks.

Pierre Lapointe

I expect in the short-term if there are solutions (to political uncertainty), the index will hit the 770-point mark.

Pichai Lertsupongkit

The camps were never built for that sort of number on a long-term basis, ... They are in fact at about double capacity.

Tim Cross

The Luna Energy Facility provides an extremely cost-effective and environmentally responsible resource to help implement our wholesale generation growth strategy. Our goals are to continue executing long-term sales backed by merchant facilities in the Southwest and Texas.

Hugh Smith

What you're seeing is a crossroads here between Wall Street analysts focused on the next quarter and long-term investors focused on the next three to five years.

Tobias Crabtree

Financial incentives alone have never proven to be long-term, effective solutions to health-care reform.

Harry Jacobson

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

Lucretius

We have significantly increased our short-term and long-term commodity price forecasts to reflect our expectation of sustained tight markets and ongoing deficits in 2006.

Morgan Stanley

We're looking for 41 cents. We're pretty much in line with consensus. Looking for the company's revenues to grow in the mid-to-high 20 percent range. The longer-term issue here is going to be the guidance and what they talk about in the call.

Joseph Farley

Investors are moving from telescopic-themed-excessive-multiple creatures to microscopic-near-term-earnings-fearing-lower-multiple folks.

Pip Coburn

I do think, though, longer term the semiconductor area, both equipment makers and the chip producers, is probably the best area to be in this market looking forward.

Terence Gabriel

The environmental impact statement explores all the social, environmental and economic impacts -- benefits and negative, short-term and long-term.

Daniel Spitzer

We'd have to make a commitment that that money would be used for kids, for the schools -- a long-term commitment -- because we're talking about 20 year bonds.

Paul Goldman

A long-term solution is to increase retail sales tax revenue. I think Copper Town Center will be a tremendous shot in the arm for the area and the county.

Russ Thomas

Shorter-term momentum traders are taking their profits right now, and longer-term investors are sitting on cash waiting for a better buying opportunity. The problem is, to get a better buying opportunity, prices have to drop lower.

Paul Cherney

I was not familiar with the term. He meant that I give him one more offer and that's it, no matter what. The other bidder offered more. I said, 'Let me give you another offer,' but he said that was best and final. So that was that.

Keith Lichtman

Now what happens to the market depends on the interest rate structure. Long rates have been better than expected, but I think we can see them rising, moving into alignment with what's going on with the economy and with short-term rates.

David Seiders

We've partnered with Babcock and Brown, which is a large energy-oriented investment bank, and they will both be helping up with arranging financing for the construction and long-term for the project. They also have access to a fairly large number of turbines for the project.

Matthew Hantzmon

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're focused on finding out the cause of crashes so we can take the best approach long-term to saving lives.

Tom Lindsay

We are pleased by the decision of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to select SunGard as its strategic SWIFT platform. By adopting our MINT solution, Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has addressed its short term SWIFT connectivity requirements as well as allowing for the future by having an open and scalable solution that supports a wide range of financial messaging standards.

Tom King

There's always going to be short-term fluctuations. But we think they're going to do well in all types of markets.

Dan Ahrens

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

William Wagner

Gold has started 2006 in a positive manner and we suspect that this strength will continue in the near term.

John Reade

I consider it an all-out war. We've got to do everything we can to win, within the law. Full-scale mineral exploration and extraction is contrary to the long-term economy here.

John Vincent

These actions will allow us to reduce costs without impairing our new product development activities in pursuit of long-term growth opportunities.

Jerry Sanders

It is important for parents and guardians to not underestimate the gravity of the situation. Overweight backpacks can result in numerous short-term and chronic health concerns.

David Thorpe

We are doing a phenomenal job with their brands, and our plan is to be a long-term Goose Island distributor.

Bob Collins

With near-term market outlook fairly unclear and not helped by current oil prices and the [post-Q2 earnings] lull, we expect the STI to continue to trade within the parallel channel.

Carmen Lee

Short-term positions have been squared up a bit ... but now is not the time for a sustained yen rally.

Robert Sinche

The big problem with them is that they're a short-term fix.

Tiana Lee

The ultimate goal long-term -- we'd like to see between 10 and 15 percent of acres in counties we work in seeded to winter cereals -- winter wheat, winter rye.

Blake Vander Vorst

Long-term archival storage remains the realm of magnetic tape libraries. Today there is no truly cost-effective ILM strategy without a tape component.

Fred Moore

They seem to be more willing to work with her. We're hopeful that it's a long-term solution, but after this experience I just go day-to-day and hope that I don't get another call (from the nursing home).

Yara Bingham

Honda has made it very clear that our preference is to have competition. We welcome competition, but we understand that we may be the only manufacturer involved in the near term. We are OK with that.

Robert Clarke

If the exchange rate pushes inflation expectations permanently higher, the Reserve Bank will have a tough job on its hands. The market is premature in pricing a near-term easing by the central bank.

Stephen Toplis

In every study we've done, fuel cells surface as the most promising long-term pathway for the industry -- even if you use fossil fuels, like natural gas, as the source of hydrogen.

Larry Burns

Fiscal year 2002 will likely prove to be challenging under any circumstances, but we believe longer-term rewards outweigh potential risks.

Rebecca Runkle

The strategy that Hilton International has been taking is similar to ours, and that is to emphasize the fee part of the business. They've been selling some of their hotels and maintaining long-term management contracts much the same that we have.

Matthew Hart

That might be idealistic. It might be naive. But I certainly hope it is the case that these self-described Bush-haters actually hate his policies. They might find him distasteful or a simpleton - pick your insulting term. But he's a tough guy to hate. He seems like a nice guy, when you get right down to it.

Waldo Jaquith

It makes all the sense in the world to diversify if the opportunity presented itself because of the lack of clarity relative to Sears' direction in the mid- and long-term.

Stuart Kessler

Any surprises in the January CPI data from Bavaria and Brandenburg will clearly influence short-term rate expectations, with anything higher than expected likely to boost the euro.

Marc Ostwald

In the short term, all sorts of industries in Western European countries -- and in the long term in the energy arena -- stand to lose from a confrontation with Iran.

Francois Gere

Those are the two things that would have to be real serious points of any discussion. The Vikings are not looking for a long-term thing. Their answers to those questions would determine a lot about how involved we got this time.

Kelby Krabbenhoft

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.

John Gavin

Short-term success is not the goal. It?s long-term resolution. It takes a lot of mental energy to overcome inertia and commit to overcoming a bad habit.

Patricia Kyle

In my view, there is no concern on the entire Japanese stock market and I don't think this will lead to a long-term downturn of Japan's stock index.

Yuuki Sakurai

[Expect some pretty weird behavior as millennial fever reaches full swing in October, November and December. The best plan may be to ignore it all.] Think about the longer term, ... What are people going to bitch and moan about when Y2K is over?

Tom Galvin

There's short-term speculation on aviation as gains in other sectors, like financial services, present a chance to increase exposure in other sectors.

Castor Pang

The best thing I can say with today's rally is that the breadth was improved, with more stocks participating. I think we have the potential to see a rally of up to 3 percent in the short term, but there are a lot of overlays.

Brian Bensch

We're going to migrate GE's customers from pure EDI to a mixed EDI/Web marketplace. We will provide support in that community. We need to turn long-term relationships into new ones.

Suaad Sait

I made a long-term commitment to Renault and I believe I have a good chance to drive races in 2007.

Heikki Kovalainen

We want to get better every day. As well as we've done this year, we're still trying to get better every day. In the long term, we're trying to compete for championships. We're trying to position ourselves for a national championship.

Troy Porco

We believe you could reasonably expect 10%. We don't see anything that would change the long-term numbers.

Bob Straus

I'm happy they were as scrupulous as they were because it bodes well for the [system's] long-term success. I anticipate that the first election will be the usual period of adjustment and there will be some concerns. But we're prepared to address those concerns.

Gerald Jones

It's very important to note that this is a league that's young, that continues to evolve and we make decisions that we think are in the best long-term interest of the league, ... We have added two new owners into this league both who are going to be in great markets and who at one point are going to be playing in soccer specific stadiums.

Don Garber

As we've said for the last year, our intent is to make sure Chris McAlister stays a Raven. The goal is to reach a long-term contract with him and his agent.

Ozzie Newsome

The near-term is fraught with more questions than answers. Sales comparisons are likely to toughen dramatically going forward.

Todd Slater

[Also, an acquisition by Medicis could turn the merged companies into a] powerhouse in the facial esthetics market, ... The combined companies will have a lot of synergy and it's a good buy for the long term holder.

Amit Hazan

Whatever we do will have long term implications -- if we are going to be a global player, we must focus on strengthening infrastructure.

Sam Pitroda

Investors may fear the move signals management's lack of near-term visibility.

Harry Blount

Securing the long-term future of sustainable, welfare-friendly systems is essential if we are to build up over the longer-term livestock which are...resistant to the seemingly endless cycle of diseases that challenge our farming industry.

Patrick Holden

Our advanced research team will be able to focus all its efforts on this year, rather than dividing its time between the present season and longer-term projects. We anticipate that some of our keenest rivals will up their game.

Nick Shorrock

The near-term economic outlook still presents some difficulties in the first half of the year, ... We're also convince the company is ready to maximize the benefits of an anticipated economic recovery in the second half of the year.

Lawrence Bossidy

Under Missouri statute, abuse of a child is a class B felony which is punishable by a term of imprisonment between five and 15 years. The point we always make is that this charge against Ms. Hyatt is merely an accusation. As in all criminal cases, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

John Fougere

We have to avoid sprawl for sprawl's sake without attention to the needs of long-term communities.

Amy Campbell

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

The Federal Reserve system has been very much a lucky passenger in this growth, ... It's the bond market, through the volatility of longer-term interest rates, that is allowing the economy to continue to expand in a relatively stable manner, and with a decreasing rate of inflation.

Bert Ely

Over the longer term, Chris Bell is building a new foundation of statewide growth that will raise sufficient money to win in November.

Jason Stanford