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What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

George Bernard Shaw

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the Trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

William Wilberforce

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.

G. K. Chesterton

We'd sure like to have either a closer or top-notch starting pitcher for our rotation. We're out there looking every day. Most of these people are not available anymore. We'd have to do it through trades. Most of the teams want our good young position players. It's going to be difficult, but it's not for lack of trying.

Robert Castellini

If they're going to college or if they've got a job right now - to be introduced to various trades and other things - they can have a back-up plan if things don't go the way they'd like them to go.

Brandon Wilson

With Greenspan next week, if there is any sniff that maybe they are coming close to the end of their tightening, then maybe these flattening trades are not going to pay off as much as they have already, and that is why people are being a little more cautious about the flattening trades.

Kevin Logan

Unbelievable, ... It was one of those trades like, 'Who knew?' Guys in the National League knew what he could do.

Dmitri Young

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

Whitey Herzog

Even with the outages that we suffered, our availability is still 99.1%, and the call centers were open to take trades during the outages.

Fred Matteson

I believe the discussion of options and their risk trades were carried out professionally and with due respect to all opinions. The agency accepts the risk of flying the current configuration with its eyes open.

Bryan O'connor

We've seen value investors come back in and put those carry positions back on. We're talking about moving rates from zero to 0.1 percent. Maybe we can still fund our trades at that.

Scott Ainsbury

The reality is that, at least from my experience, these people coming into the trades are very hard workers and become skilled craftsmen and are doing a great job.

Mike Hickman

Emerging markets have become expensive and we have reduced our exposure. One reason is that Japanese interest rates will eventually go. This will have implications because carry trades are likely to be unwound.

Hans Goetti

It's no secret that the Building Trades workers in the state of Minnesota look at the bonding bill as a real source of their livelihood and in that vein, it's never big enough. But in reality, this one could and should be bigger.

Dick Anfang

Over the last five years net trade's been a drag on growth. We do see an improved contribution over the next year or so. It probably won't be enough to offset the other areas of the economy.

Paul Dales

To be honest, the building trades are going to be able to turn out more people, but we're all in this together, along with the Sierra Club. I know Peninsula Interfaith Action is going to try to turn out some people, too.

Chris Mohr

Our guys still have a couple of trades in the works.

Carl Pohlad

It seems to be sensible in a period of consolidating grocery trades. When you go with the entire organization behind you, I'm sure it gets some advantage, but I'm not sure it will make a big difference.

William Leach

There's a convergence going on in Internet online financial service offerings -- adding cash management functionality to their clients. They can't live on trades alone.

Dan Burke

(Pre-draft trades) do happen from time to time, like Denver and San Francisco. But a lot of the reasons teams don't do picks for picks before the draft is because you want to go on the clock. You want to see if anyone calls during your allotted time because you might get a better deal.

Rick Spielman

This village had a couple of trades like that and reeds and willows were grown locally for that purpose.

Joe Dunn

Dad was a real Renaissance man and a jack of all trades.

David Martin

We've definitely re-established our philosophy. We're going to go with player development and scouting. And we're going to have to be totally overwhelmed (to make any trades). We're going to let players develop in their own time and go with the guys in our system. We saw last year how important it is to be patient and the best is yet to come.

Marc Gustafson

With all the young talented arms they have, Toronto has the ability to even make trades to fill in the key roles they're missing in the big leagues.

Dave Laroche

CMBX has been designed to provide investors with an efficient means to gain diversified exposure to the U.S. CMBS market. The standardized nature of the index, coupled with the fact that trades can be confirmed through DTCC, will pave the way for a liquid and operationally efficient market.

Kevin Gould

For many marketers, there's a crisis. When a marketer hires someone to do in-house search, they need to find a jack-of-all-trades.

Kevin Lee

He was a jack of all trades.

Annette Carter

I've lost several thousand dollars on single trades because of a server being down.

Walter Fricke

There is a lot of free news on the Internet, and you can place your trades through it, by yourself.

Muriel Siebert

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

John Newton

We really have no comment. But we've always been an aggressive team, whether it be free agency or through trades. And this is a great player. The trading deadline starts next week. We had conversations with them and we'll see what happens.

Michael Lombardi

When we find the right GM, he will have the responsibility going forward to make changes regarding the manager, coaches and trades. I would hope he looks at the job Charlie has done and say he did a pretty good job.

David Montgomery

The volatility we've seen in European bonds this year (2005) has been quite spectacular and it hasn't been a very good year. In the middle of the year, staying bullish in European bonds would have been one of the worst trades.

Arup Ghosh

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

Thomas Watts

While it is not a superior refinery, WNR is improving its facility and the company trades at one of the lowest valuations in the group.

Paul Sankey

We grew up together, and he's an outstanding man and a jack of all trades. He lays tile, but he can do just about anything.

Glenn Hudgins

In weak market environments, the stock trades at a discount to the parts. The move to realize value is not unique to Tyco.

Leon Cooperman

We think it trades at a discount. We think that it's a good opportunity, especially when we look for a good recovery into next year.

Diana Yates

It?s just a 100 percent difference. You look around the league today and you see all these trades made [for financial reasons]. It?s not because this guy is a better player, or that he gives you a better chance to win. It?s because he makes less money.

Jerry Reynolds

I'm not going after any college guys, I'm not trying to make any trades for players because I think we have the right chemistry. In the end, (it's just a matter of) do we get it done or not?

Jeff Pyle

We're short of players, we don't know what's going on with the trades so it's not the most perfect situation for this team, but tonight it was truly a great win.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Netscape has been very unsuccessful at interacting with the trades, ... They don't understand how to do PR.

David Strom

I dropped out about five years ago. Near the end, people were calling me at work wanting to discuss trades. It got to be too intense. It got to be way too much for me. I just don't have enough time.

Terry Fleming

It is vital for firms to carefully supervise trades relating to business strategies pegged to the closing price to protect customers and the market from excess volatility.

Susan Merrill

They say if you're a jack of all trades, you're a master of none.

Artis Hicks

I'm using labor out of the mission. I'm trying to teach guys the different trades, trying to help them, so maybe, when they leave here, they're not going to have to go out and get a $6-an-hour job.

Patrick Murray

Expectations of the Bank of Japan raising interest rates this year, as shown by climbing bonds yields, may slow down the outpouring of Japanese institutional investors' money. That will also bring about an unwinding of yen carry trades by foreign investors, supporting the yen.

Jun Kitazawa

The data suggests the big momentum positions which had mirrored carry trades have now been cut back to much more neutral levels, which should provide a good backdrop for carry trade rebuilding in the new year.

Daniel Katzive

The unwinding of the yen carry trades will probably continue. That will help the yen.

Teruhisa Tsuji

Each dollar a visitor spends doubles in value as it spreads through the community. The attractions and hotels in the city spent more than $62 million in expansion, renovation and improvements in 2004 alone and that translates to a large number of jobs in the construction industry and related trades.

Janis Schmees

The more that oil trades over $50, the group will be attractive to investors because of solid earnings and cash flow.

George Gaspar

I think we were playing better before the trades.

Petr Cajanek

After 1906, San Francisco loses its dominance in the West. Industry fled, and what it became was a poor imitation of itself through tourism. It takes that image of being a gay, giddy city and trades on that image.

Philip Fradkin

We are immensely proud of our skilled team of professionals who, along with contractors and trades, share in the success of this project.

David Weston

At $40, (Bank of America) trades at the low end of the valuation range for the CSFB Large Cap Banks, discounting a material earnings shortfall.

Susan Roth

They have a good team. They are a different team. The trades they made have worked out for them. Everyone forgets that these are young kids and what happened before was very disruptive for them. What they needed to do is move on. That's what life is all about, moving on. They've done it.

Dale Hunter

I can't wait until Kyle gets his house, (and) I know he's going to get his house. I don't think it's going to take him very many trades at all, and I'd love to think that's how the universe works.

Jody Gnant

There are lots of hedge funds making a living doing these kinds of trades.

Mercer Bullard

We will be looking to have an electronic flow of information out of ThinkFolio to TradeSmart, and then back from TradeSmart to ThinkFolio, which will then generate soft trade details into the Icon system, which can then be enriched with settlement details and static data details before those trades get sent via Swift to either HSBC or other third-party custodians that we might use.

Paul Holmes

While the U.S. interest rate outlook is supportive of the dollar, people are reluctant to buy it from here because of Japanese GDP. There's also a lot of concern that if commodities continue falling, hedge funds will have to buy back even more yen to unwind their carry trades.

Tsutomu Soma

The spread has reduced dramatically and trades are increasingly being given to New Zealand brokers to transact.

Geoff Brown

While the counter still trades at a discount to our 16.5 times market price-earnings ratio, its current premium over our fair value estimate and strong price appreciation over the past few months suggest that the issue has temporarily outrun its fundamentals, with no further upside in the next 12 months.

Leo Venezuela

The company trades at a deep discount to the value of the properties.

Steven Bregman

It seems very likely that someone could have funded her account and made these questionable trades.

Jon Najarian

I guess you could say that Courtney is a jack of all trades. He can block, he can catch. Flem is ... the blocking tight end and I'm the receiving guy.

Randal Williams

At this point, I'd very much like to discuss with them issues on the court or trades. … Let that be done face-to-face. That is their decision [whether to trade him]. Hopefully, when the air is cleared … I'd just like to say that [trading Francis] is pretty premature on that end.

Jeff Fried

Products of the breeding programs are bound to play increasingly important roles in subsistence agriculture. Whether new hybrids eventually replace cultivars that are used by the export trades, however, remains to be seen. In the end analysis, we believe that resistant bananas will be our best defense against diseases in subsistence and export situations alike.

Randy Ploetz

Each exhibit involves an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes planning and execution. He truly is a jack-of-all-trades, from creating ideas, building models for exhibits, writing and keeping up with the ever-changing computer and printing needs of the museum.

Margaret Baker

India used to trade at a discount to the region, and now it trades at a slight premium. Earnings growth remains pretty solid, but it's starting to slow.

Stephen Corry

Historically, a lot of CEOs have gone on TV before it goes out and that will affect how it trades in the aftermarket. They must adhere to the general rules about hyping their company's stock.

Brian Margolis

Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to its peers against 2006 and 2007 earnings and at a discount against our 2008 to 2010 forecast.

Catherine Arnold

Goldman Sachs ... yesterday took it off their recommended list for reasons that made no sense whatsoever. This is as high a quality company as you can imagine. They did make some round-trip energy trades, there's no doubt, [but] they amounted to one quarter of one percent of their business. It had no effect on their profits. Energy trading is about 65 cents or about 30 percent of Duke's earnings.

Stephen Leeb

You don't make money on trades.

Richard Bove

Most of these trades are short sales for short-term trades. And especially before a long weekend, you want to cover and go home flat.

Marcello Frustaci

[E-Trade, the virtual stock brokerage, makes no bones about the fact that it is targeting full-service, full-commission brokers. Customers who open an account at www.etrade.com are offered a free copy of E-Trade's guide to online investing titled] Boot Your Broker. ... All those branch offices you all have are going to become fast-food outlets, so you might want to think about your career choices.

Christos Cotsakos

A day trader could have a couple thousand trades while even a more typical investor could still have 20 to 40 trades during a year. If you have a bunch of trades, you'd end having to pay an outrageous tax preparation fee because there'd be so many trades that would have to be typed in.

Jackie Perlman

The trades, very much the trades. That's where it's at.

Barb Fleisner

The yen is benefiting from a reversal of bets on yen-carry trades on concern the New Zealand dollar will fall. The unwinding of that trade also is going on amid speculation the central bank is getting closer to raising rates.

Keizo Tanaka

In-season trades are just family-killers.

Scot Pollard

We had to do something with our roster. We could have waited but we looked at all kinds of different possibilities, two-for-one (trades), things like that. We just couldn't come up with anything that worked.

Rob Babcock

Barring a US attack, it appears imminent that Iran's euro-dominated oil bourse will open in March, 2006, ... Logically, the most appropriate US strategy is compromise with the EU and OPEC towards a dual-currency system for international oil trades.

Brian Miller

They just have to hunker down and reduce expenses so they can benefit from increased trades.

Rich Repetto

This agreement trades discounts for achieved market share and growth.

Ray Elliott

The attraction of carry trades is in decline, a lot of people will be wary of going into the Icelandic crown.

Henrik Gullberg

The prediction is for a real shortage in those trades - carpenters and plumbers especially - because of the age of those workers. Within 10 years, there will be a huge retirement in the skilled labor ranks.

Mark Conrad

All the trades are working overtime.

David Robbins

We're approaching levels in rates at which you'll start to hear more and more chatter about asset allocation trades, away form equities and into bonds. At or above 5%, bonds look interesting.

Colin Lundgren

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

David Bondy

We started planning last year, looking for a capstone project to encapsulate a bunch of different trades and fields to give the kids an awesome co-op experience.

Steve Olson

When [the NYSE] goes automated, expect all volumes to pick up substantially. It takes longer to pick up a phone than it does to process an order electronically. Less friction means more trades.

Rich Repetto

Mutual funds, who have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, who have made the representation that they will do what's reasonable to stop these trades, and then they take payments for allowing these trades to take place -- they're in deep trouble.

Eliot Spitzer