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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Stephen Hawking

I don't think these punitive measures are going to deal with the underlying issues or even stop the riots. You need to focus on how to better manage the population you have.

Jody Kent

We would still oppose the price cap law. I can't imagine that tinkering with it will affect the underlying consensus by experts against this.

Melissa Pavlicek

A self-invested personal pension or stakeholder gives you complete freedom to select [the underlying investment fund or assets] in accordance with your ethics.

Tom Mcphail

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Christopher Lasch

I'm disappointed. I support my client and I am hopeful that the matter will openly be resolved. It's already on appeal and I'm hoping DCA will reverse the underlying ruling that allowed him to be convicted in the first place.

Dale Carson

The underlying growth opportunity of the Internet is enormous. We have only about 40 percent penetration in the U.S., and maybe close to 15 percent abroad. So there's lot of room to grow.

Bob Grandhi

Consumer markets will drive much of the industry's underlying research and development, rather than the military and business markets. This will significantly reduce product life cycles. Consumer products are geared toward ever-decreasing product life cycles.

Steve Prentice

Cheap products from China and a very competitive pricing environment is helping keep underlying inflation in check. Interest rates are on hold for the time being.

Shane Oliver

The recent hurricanes in the U.S. have impacted our results. However, underlying performance is strong, amplified by high but volatile prices of oil, gas and products, ... We anticipate production from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to be back to normal, with the exception of the Shell-operated Mars project, by the end of the year.

Lord Browne

I think we're moving in right direction. Our underlying results ... are strong. We're building a foundation that will serve us very well.

Jack Stahl

There is an underlying positive tone for the dollar which is coming through between the politics of Japan and Germany. The underlying dollar story is interest rates. People are becoming a little more convinced the Fed is going to hike to 4 percent by the end of the year.

Meg Browne

The underlying component is the data. If we don't have data, we don't have stable scores.

Tony Jones

There are some pretty good underlying fundamentals of the U.S. economy. A good Philadelphia Fed number will confirm the U.S. economy is solid and boost the dollar.

Michael Jansen

We've been in and out of positive territory a couple of times. The resilience and underlying momentum, which is very much weighted on the buy side, is still there.

Ryan Wibberley

We continue to believe that the underlying drivers of productivity growth are turning less favorable.

Jan Hatzius

Now, if Ali was still going around saying those things, I don't think he would be as beloved as he is today. By the same token, this country as a whole has become much more understanding of the terrible prejudice and bigotry that existed and has come to recognize the underlying validity of Ali's demand for racial justice and equality.

Thomas Hauser

It has nothing to do with an election year. We believe the underlying earnings are what really count.

Kevin Caron

There's a financial network underlying proliferation just as there is for terrorism, ... This is something the world needs to look at.

Stuart Levey

[March's report] didn't meet the markets' worst fears, and on those grounds I view it as somewhat bullish, ... I don't really see any discernable sign that job growth is slowing. The underlying trend is still extremely robust job growth, which will lead the Fed to raise rates again.

Doug Porter

Cough syrups may suppress a cough a little bit. But they don't treat the underlying cause. They won't make you better any faster.

Dr. Michael Alberts

Thanks to solid underlying performance during the quarter, we are on track with our financial targets and delivering on our commitments.

Gerard Kleisterlee

Some buying to match the index change may provide underlying support for bonds.

Jun Ishii

Although weaker than expected, interpretation of the release is clouded by the unusual drop in food sales in August and, as is often the case, the MPC will be waiting for the next month's release to get a better picture of the underlying trend.

Gwyn Hacche

I think that kind of language about a culture war is itself harmful, and is stoking the flames. We need to understand the real issues underlying the debate ... There are serious issues here. To characterize this as good versus evil is living in a cartoon.

Jeremy Gunn

We have got an underlying level of intelligence which shows there is a threat.

Admiral Sir Alan West

The one-time cost reduction employers experience as their workers move into less expensive plans has been masking the underlying cost trend. Migration out of indemnity plans slowed to a trickle last year, so we're finally seeing real trend reflected in the national cost figures.

Blaine Bos

The stock price has become divorced from its underlying fundamentals driven by investor enthusiasm surrounding the television shows. It may take until the shows debut or until investors see that earnings aren't coming in for the stock to crack.

Gary Mcdaniel

Despite the weakness of the past two months, the general underlying trend for the economy is still higher. The data still point to strength in the manufacturing sector, and upcoming orders appear strong.

Rob Palombi

Congress's underlying policy is that you use the minimum number of clauses for commercial items procurement, to attract companies that are not traditional government contractors. So the more clauses you add, the more you get the companies having second thoughts.

Alan Chvotkin

The underlying trend for our industry over the next decade should be strong. What we've seen in the past couple of quarters is bookings have been picking up.

Jim Morgan

Think of the person with the to-do list. That person is convinced he never gets anything done, which gives him a slight underlying anxiety, sapping mental energy, which means he is not as efficient as the other person. The person with the priority list and holding pen knows that most days he gets pretty close to everything done. That frees up more mental energy to do more of the important things.

Jim Steffen

Everyone is asking themselves different questions, so there are some underlying themes related to what women are looking for in their personal life. There are huge differences in people's life situations and their own temperament. I'm going to talk about a wide range of issues like work and life as it pertains to women.

Barbara Moses

I'd much rather do research on up and coming companies that have potential and take the risk. It boils down to doing a lot of homework and learning the underlying fundamentals.

Fred Walker

She was very dedicated and had a positive influence on thousands of children and their parents. As a teacher and principal she set high academic standards and ran a pretty tight ship. She expected people to do the best that they could. But there was always an underlying kindness and love in everything she did.

Sister Therese Vaulet

The underlying philosophy is that the coach is asking questions all the time and shining the spotlight on what the student thinks.

Paul Sanders

Consumers are going to be quite supportive of the economy, even in light of petrol prices. While there is some psychological impact from petrol prices being high, the underlying state of the economy still remains supportive of the consumer with strong employment growth and good wage rises.

Paul Brennan

The surge in underlying health care costs stands out as the most troubling survey finding, and is a signal that premiums will continue to grow.

Jon Gabel

That was much worse than expected, and the underlying numbers look weak across the board.

Michael Every

These are impressive numbers. Underlying growth momentum still suggests that the central bank should continue with policy tightening.

Rajeev Malik

I want to stimulate people to think about why it is that Jews have been the object of hatred for so many centuries and to explore the myths underlying all forms of bigotry. The presentation is not just about anti-Semitism. It's really about challenging people to look at the myths that form the basis of bigotry and racism.

Bruce Deboskey

Early detection and antibiotic therapy has been promoted as a means to delay chronic bacterial lung growth and prolong life, and breath analysis may be an effective first step toward treatment. In the long term, these findings on sulfide levels also might help uncover some of the underlying mechanisms of the disease.

Dan Cooper

Given the massive catastrophe losses absorbed by insurers in 2005, the increase in income during the first three quarters is a testament to the underlying financial health of the industry.

Gregory Heidrich

The economic indicators continue to feed the bull market that we've been enjoying for the last couple of years. Inflation is reasonably mild and under control, the consumer is in great shape and continues to spend -- we don't think everything is going to be in a straight-up fashion, but the underlying fundamentals that are positive for equity markets are still very much intact in the U.S.

Larry Jones

A lot of the time there are underlying mental problems that the meth use masks, ... Before you can be successful doing anything about the meth use, something has to be done to treat the mental problems or you're not going to get results.

Frank Lambert

I have no doubt that Oprah will remain committed to bringing life-expanding novels -- their themes and their authors -- to the attention of the huge audience that she inspires. It seems the frequency and format of her book recommendations will now change but not Oprah's underlying mission of getting people to read to enrich themselves and to better understand others.

Anne Messitte

[Environmentalist radicals see doom ahead. But even the suits of Big Oil agree on the underlying facts:] Simply put, the era of easy access to energy is over, ... We are experiencing the convergence of geological difficulty with geopolitical instability. . . . The time when we could count on cheap oil and even cheaper natural gas is clearly ending.

David J. O'reilly

It's not just a recovery. It's an aggressive accumulation that to me is indicative of an underlying primary bull market. I mean, I am surprised by the degree of enthusiasm that is evident in tech stocks.

Gerald Vincent

Things aren't as bad as Jason (Furman) said but they're not as good as the labor secretary said, ... The markets clearly were expecting a better number than 96,000. You've got to wonder ... are corporations sending us a signal that the underlying economy is not as good as people thought?

Greg Valliere

The underlying theme in most of these cases is the insistence of more self-determination. And the more I think about these issues, the more self-determination makes sense.

Harriet Miers

I often start into these trips knowing that there's an underlying purpose that transcends merely climbing a peak.

Alex Lowe

One of the issues faced in determining the background for any incident is determining the potential contribution of a drug or the contribution of the underlying illness.

David Reddy

Our need to focus on these accounting matters is disappointing as the condition of our underlying business continues to improve. However, we are committed to taking the important steps necessary to ensure the accuracy of our financial reporting, and will update investors as to the expected timing at a later date.

Richard Haddrill

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Alexander Calder

Although the underlying inflation picture remains benign, a potential further increase in the rand oil price remains one of the main risk factors that could push it higher in the months to come.

Johan Rossouw

This series of applications and some of the underlying network technology that's being tested in the NTON is the precursor for what all networks will be like in five to 10 years. Its goal is to hook people up at about 1,000 times the data rate that most businesses are hooked up today.

William Lennon

Aggregates we are seeing in terms of import and export expansion among others are broadly in line with attaining the growth target of 6.1%. Though there have been blips on inflation, it is due to drought. Underlying inflation is 5.4% so there is no risk for monetary policy in the medium term and the economy will expand in line with projections.

Charles Abuka

The real estate market has been an underlying source of support for private consumption. As that market begins to slow and weaken, that would have an impact on private consumption.

Brian Dolan

My first reaction is that the headline looks bad but the underlying numbers look better than we expected.

Mark Davies

The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.

James Seals

Since the offer on January 27, the value of the underlying bid has improved.

Aditya Mittal

Justice (Stephen) Breyer almost never dissents, ... For him to be that strident I think reflects the deep underlying concern about the appearance of political impropriety.

Neal Katyal

We are very pleased by our results in the second-quarter. Despite the lack of hot toys that drove sales in the year-ago period, we reported strong revenue, thereby indicating the strength of our underlying core business.

John Eyler

The economy is continuing to run at a strong pace in the third quarter. The underlying trend in durable goods orders is positive and the housing market continues to run strong.

Dean Maki

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

A. J. P. Taylor

The robust appreciation rates are striking both in terms of their magnitude and in their geographic scope, ... However, they are likely unsustainable given the underlying inflation rate, income growth and other factors.

Patrick Lawler

The underlying trend is a bit sideways.

Kevin Logan

Forced to lower their underlying fares to compete.

Michael O'leary

It shows there's an underlying strength to this economy.

William Cheney

The underlying trends look positive, and I'm encouraged by stability in the margin and strength in loan growth.

Joe Morford

We're going to have high energy prices, a little bit more inflation. Underlying inflation is going to be a little bit higher, but not seriously higher and I still feel good about the overall economy.

Donald Ratajczak

A substantial part of the individual differences between the twins were due to new genetic effects between this period of age 14 and 18. There are new genes being switched on that are involved in blood pressure and factors underlying blood pressure. I think that is the most interesting finding: the large amount of new genes that come into play.

Harold Snieder

We have to get at what's really going on here, what are the underlying causes, why are people committing the crimes?

Anne Roberts

It is also important that we offer as good of value in our services as is practical. That is the underlying reason for an evaluation such as this, to look for possible ways to improve our ability to offer a preferred service.

James Murphy

The number of managers and the underlying cost structure gets to be very similar to a mutual fund.

Mark Bloom

In some locations, it's hard to recruit nurses, thus the need for overtime. The underlying issue is there aren't enough nurses in Illinois, so that's what the governor is working to address.

Susan Hofer

Despite all kinds of centrifugal forces, the Internet's technology has stayed reasonably unified and coherent during the tremendous growth of the last 20 years, the enormous changes in underlying transmission technology and the era of telecommunications liberalization.

Brian Carpenter

It's still classified, ... along with a lot of the underlying planning.

Lawrence Dirita

The PeopleSoft drama is just that: drama and chatter. Investors need to adjust their antennas and focus on the underlying fundamentals of the business.

Gary Abbott

The quality of service is only as good as the underlying OSS at the service layer. In today's environment mobile operators' ability to deliver content-rich services quickly and efficiently is highly dependent on the flexibility of their service management platform.

Rob Rich

GM's announced plant closings do little to address the underlying problems, ... It will be smaller, but its per-unit costs will still be too high to compete.

Peter Morici

What we have seen over time is a gradual pickup in underlying growth momentum. The strength we were seeing earlier in the year in the export side has started to spill over to investment.

Silvia Pepino

We have ambitious goals for the future and a strategy to enhance Buena Vista Games' position as a major force in interactive entertainment. BVG's intellectual properties, combined with Epic's leadership in underlying technology, ensures the best game content for consumers.

Michael Ryder

The underlying tone is still weak.

Brian Fabbri

The Bush administration is under enormous pressure from Congress to do something about the uneven bilateral trade deficit. The underlying force is not the value of their currency but the low savings rate in the United States. If there's no change in the U.S. savings rate, the trade deficit won't go away.

Nicholas Lardy

The Fed will probably feel the data is distorted by the Iraq war and that there's enough underlying strength in the U.S. economy for it to pickup after the war.

Kevin Grice

Overall, the data for the capital goods sector remains somewhat erratic, but the underlying trend remains upward.

David Resler

It looks like a bubble, but the underlying trend is too powerful to ignore.

Henry Blodget

I like the gardens with good bones and affirmed underlying structure.. well-marked paths, well-built walls, well-defined changes in level.

Russell Page

It makes the prospect for settlement of the underlying case much more problematic.

James Sutton

I'm very happy that the president of Liberia has come here, underlying the importance I attach to developing ties with Africa during my presidency this year.

Moritz Leuenberger

The underlying fundamentals for both gold and platinum remain strong, which should keep prices relatively buoyant.

George Glynos

People are questioning the underlying fundamentals of (technology stocks).

Joseph Mcalinden

Joe sees a reflection of his wife in Pauline. That was his first instinct which attracted him, and it remains the underlying reason for his affection.

Ray Brooks

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Robert M. Pirsig

Cough syrups don't treat the underlying cause. They won't make you better any faster.

Dr. Michael Alberts

Commodities are significantly dislocated from underlying fundamentals, but what does inspire people about zinc is that it's the only commodity where we can say with hand on heart that supply will be constrained.

Nick Moore

It is hoped for going forward that ... a similar catch-up will happen. The underlying strength of the U.S. labor market suggests it will.

Matthew Slaughter

A stronger, more flexible body will tolerate a fall better. The underlying message is that snowboarding and skiing safety have to entail a lifestyle commitment. Maintaining a proper fitness level is essential and winter athletes need to incorporate it naturally into their fitness routines.

Dean Walker

The first time around with SOX, there was an imposed deadline and everyone scrambled to meet minimum compliance requirements. Now, it's time to look at the underlying systems and processes, and see how they can gain efficiencies from them.

Paul Hamerman

There is an unproven assumption underlying this legislation that students lose a lot of credits when they transfer to another institution.

Steve Maccarthy

Is any of this stuff going to destroy the underlying value of Citigroup? ... The answer is: No.

Anton Schutz

The headline number was weaker than what people expected. But when you look down into the underlying details, it's not as weak as what that headline number would suggest.

Jay Bryson

We know that our underlying technology was not rich enough, ... It was not a particularly friendly world to program in.

Anders Hejlsberg

Strong product continues to drive DaimlerChrysler past General Motors and Ford. DaimlerChrysler has a better underlying business. Their product is desirable and saleable. It's not surprising that they are doing well.

Brian Bruce

Higher underwriting revenues, increased mergers and acquisitions fees, growth in trading and merchant banking gains, and increased commission revenues were the factors underlying this excellent performance.

D. Miller

Further moves will be dictated by the tone of the data leading up to the next meetings. This is not to say that the fed funds rate couldn't go to 5 percent but there would need to be more underlying strength in the economy to drive it there.

Keith Hembre

We'd like to see it at the next meeting on Nov. 30. Underlying inflation is moving higher and Europe's economy is still strong. We will have to see what happens in the next two weeks ? it may be the next rate hike is pushed into next year.

Steve Barrow

There will be some review of the markets as we go into reporting period, but there is an underlying confidence in our markets.

Tony Russell

I didn't go into this with the underlying premise that I wanted to eliminate the idea of a centralized campus.

Joe Herald

Unless you address some of the underlying problems in these bills, I doubt there will be a consensus necessary for passage of them.

Andrew Mcdonald

[People] are often diagnosed with depression or ADHD and put on medications that can make underlying bipolarity worse. If they're presenting with these symptoms, they should very cautiously approach treatment and scan for manic behavior.

Melissa Delbello

Moody's Investors Service recently upgraded the underlying rating from A3 to A2 on the District's outstanding debt - without the PSF guarantee. Factors contributing to the upgrade included healthy tax base growth, well-managed finances despite operating at the maximum allowed tax rate for maintenance and operations for several years, and manageable debt ratios.

Bruce Barnett

We wanted to emphasize the utility of the feature [dynamic bookmark folders fetched from a server] rather than the underlying formats [RSS, Atom, etc.].

Mike Shaver

Adam is a tremendous addition to our team. The quality of the experience he brings both as a successful technology sales manager in the hospitality industry and his experience working on the hotel side allows him to hit the ground running in both understanding the nuances of the product but also the underlying concerns of our hoteliers. We are delighted he decided to join us.

Joseph Martino

To our knowledge, the current study is the first to identify a molecular mechanism that blocks both retrieval and reconsolidation of any type of memory. While much remains to be understood concerning the cellular processes underlying the effects of ERK in drug-stimulus associations and other types of learning and memory, the present findings offer hope for treating cue-elicited relapse in addicts.

John Marshall (researcher)

It's indicative of strong underlying demand for housing relative to supply and it's supportive of the view you will not get a major correction in house prices.

Dominic Bryant

The underlying rise in mortgage lending was close to trend in January, suggesting stronger growth towards the end of 2005 may not have established a sustained upturn in lending.

David Dooks

The underlying allegations are really just the same, but relabeled. The government has been investigating my client since 2002. You would think that by this time they would be able to prove that he actually attended a terrorist camp. They haven't.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

The dollar is drifting downwards. There is an inclination to sell dollars -- the current account deficit is the underlying concern. We need to see a big upward surprise in U.S. data to change the sentiment.

Daragh Maher

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying circumstances that come from a feeling of helplessness.

Susan Jeffers

Funds' buying continued to boost stocks. The underlying tone of the market is still firm. The market may consolidate at around the 15,300 level before gaining momentum to advance further.

Alfred Chan

Underlying gains in employment and income were well maintained outside the Gulf region.

Mark Olson

It doesn't fix it; it mitigates it a little. It does not change the underlying high cost structure of Long Island ... but it's a very necessary Band-Aid at least in the short-term.

Pearl Kamer

The underlying nature of a troubled country.

Fintan O'toole

Convedia's media servers were a natural fit to improve the underlying media processing capabilities of our media resource product suite. We're looking forward to utilizing Convedia's Media Servers in a number of our largest IP telephony infrastructure opportunities.

Mark Peterson

The driving factor here is an increasingly mobile workforce. The underlying assumptions made in corporate security policies -- when everything was in desktop -- are, many times, now invalid. The assumptions were the equipment would be in secure buildings, where there were locks on the doors.

Bob Egner

I think there's a lot of underlying buying interest, a lot of cash on the sidelines in this country. The Canadian dollar mustering some strength here should bring some foreign money watchers back into this country.

Wendy Strub

The underlying operating environment for companies is likely to remain very difficult over the next six-to-nine months -- especially in Europe -- so we would definitely sell into any relief rally in the event of a benign resolution to the Iraq question.

Saul Henry

The underlying profitability of the business has been adversely affected by increasing mine costs and increasing borrowing costs.

Tony Palmer

We are very excited about the release of Ultimate Survey Enterprise version 3.0, as it has been largely built on customer feedback and our company's underlying goals.

John Craven

Options trading was frenzied. Early on Friday ahead of the delayed court ruling, option players were expecting a move up or down of about 14 percent in the underlying stock.

Jon Najarian

The all too clear messages ... are that they are still concerned that there will be some rise in the underlying rate of inflation and, that given that outlook, they are nowhere near considering any easing in monetary policy.

David De Garis

Not surprisingly, when we have a market that's not quite sure about direction, you're going to see real volatile days like this where things are turning on emotion rather than on any underlying fundamental.

Kate Warne

But I think the underlying trend in terms of consumer spending and overall economic spending is actually up.

Charles Lieberman

The improvement in underlying sales has been driven by some price investment and by 'easy' improvements in availability that you would expect in the early stages of a recovery. Indeed, it is still too early to call any major recovery.

David Mccarthy

The underlying premise of why we're seeing all of these warnings is a slowing economic cycle. The analysts didn't foresee that growth would slow down as much as they thought.

Joe Cooper

If you were lucky, you could delegate that kind of work away. But if not, and you couldn't get at the underlying text of what you wanted to do, you were out of luck. And that was the frustration many blind people ran into. Then the only way a blind person could do the work was to hire a sighted person as a reader to help run the machine.

Curtis Chong

As expected, (there was) some confusion about the impact of IFRS changes but the underlying result was solid given the impact from negative currency and higher commodity prices.

Jon Cox

Our underlying business performance has been good, ... We have taken a number of steps to sharpen our focus on improving shareholder value.

Brian Russell

Since January 12, when Christ Hospital's board originally stated its intention to withdraw, the Health Alliance has continually sought dialogue to identify and discuss the underlying issues and concerns. Since the Christ Hospital board has refused to do so, the Health Alliance has no choice but to seek a speedy resolution in the court system.

Gail Myers

We believe that any immigrant — any immigrant — residing in this nation has a right — a right — to have access to the process allowing U.S. citizenship. No ifs. No buts. And, we feel that the underlying theme is that there is nothing more un-American than to be anti-immigrant.

Alvaro Cifuentes

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Paul Brewbaker

If you look at the underlying numbers you'll see that underlying trade has improved. It looks like exports have improved quite a bit.

George Buckley

The underlying problem that needs to be addressed to tackle inflation is to stimulate economic production ... producers have to feel secure to produce, which is not happening.

James Jowa

There is always an underlying reason why the student is bullying someone.

Angie Jacques

The overall story is one of continued strength of the consumer but there are a couple of underlying stories here too.

Michael Niemira

The nature of p-to-p implies sharing, so it's hard to imagine applications that wouldn't have some collaborative component. If you just look at the underlying engine in Groove, I suppose it could be used as a distributed database or as a distributed file system.

William Wood

This is the moment of truth for productivity, to see what part of those stunning gains of the previous three years had been related simply to the cyclical part of the whole story, and which part of those gains represented underlying increases in productivity trends. Right now, there are some questions being raised.

Anthony Karydakis

When you burn a bridge sometimes -- it doesn't matter if it's a significant player on a team, especially a significant player like Kobe -- you might say let bygones be bygones, (but) there's always that underlying, 'Oh, you talked about me,' Me personally, I don't think it'll work out. But who knows? Crazier things have happened.

Robert Horry

If you have $30 billion of GM debt underlying some multiple of that amount in outstanding credit-default swap contracts, then you need to have a way to cash-settle those contracts after a credit event.

Sunil Hirani

A lot of the innovations are coming from start-ups. Anything that's going to increase the performance of the underlying plumbing, these are the tools that are going to be of interest from an enterprise standpoint. Also, anything that gives enterprises more control over their networks - even if the networks are outsourced - is going to reap the benefits.

Stephen Elliot

It shows that underlying inflation is still tame and only slowly edging up. That means the Fed can take its time hiking rates. The only question is whether it keeps moving at every meeting or takes a break now and then.

Jim O'sullivan

His numbers aren't moving because the underlying concerns of the people giving him low approval ratings are not being addressed.

Aubrey Jewett

It's a testament to the resourcefulness of all concerned and the underlying attractiveness of the stock.

Miles Saltiel

Ben is going to unlock a lot of mystery. He's going to explain what he's doing and give an underlying rationale for it. The Fed will become less mysterious, and I think people will like that.

Mark Gertler

It represents a misreading of the nature of the problem. When we make these forces stronger, we make the underlying problem worse, not better. We're throwing gas on the political fire.

Stephen Biddle

The strength of our business franchises continued to generate strong underlying financial results.

Charles O. Prince Iii

The rally is being driven by tech. Money's going into the sector across the board. There's been an underlying bid in the market and any time you think we're going to get a real sell-off, it doesn't happen.

Mike Viracola

If you look at our history even over the last 15 years and our growth rate over that period of time, I think the investors are recognizing the underlying value of the company and our potential. We just see a continuation of what we've done and already accomplished.

Isadore Sharp

As commodities fluctuate, underlying securities will follow... That's where they are going to trade for the next little while, as we're going to see volatile swings of this nature.

Bruce Latimer

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

Bourke Cockran

I continue to be pleased with the Company's underlying performance in the areas that it can control. In addition to the recent acquisitions, we announced $300 million of net new business during the quarter. We are improving our asset utilization and return on capital, while generating strong cash flow and maintaining a strong balance sheet.

David Rayburn

We are working on three documents - two contracts [on gas transit and deliveries] and an underlying intergovernmental protocol for 2006.

Viktor Khristenko

You have two very powerful opposing forces in the market. You have the Fed being very aggressive, lowering interest rates and throwing liquidity back into the market. And you have underlying business trends throughout most of the economy that are awful in many industries and show no signs of improvement. You have to take a side.

Jim Gribbell

The underlying strength evident in both durable and non-durable goods orders in recent months explains the momentum of the manufacturing sector.

Michelle Girard

Overall, we're happy with the level of underlying earnings in the third quarter, ... The prospect of future accounting restatements disappoints us, but it's likely most of them are out of the way.

Peter Streit

We manage the same fund for mutual fund holders and annuity holders, and we happen to own the shares underlying the annuity instead of the mutual fund. That's why it appears we don't hold shares when you look at the SAI data, but in effect we do -- just through a different vehicle.

David Keuler

It was an unusually good quarter for credit losses. But it reflects a better credit environment, and the underlying earnings were strong, too.

Mark Lane

Unfortunately, the Learning Co. performance masks an underlying vitality of core U.S. business.

Jill E. Barad

At a group level we expect a strong operating performance and growth in market shares from the majority of our business lines, however increases in underlying profit will be slower if the general insurance trading margin reverts to its long-term sustainable range and if loan losses increase from current historic lows.

John Mulcahy

The capital markets have exploded in terms of size and willingness to take on risk ... it puts an underlying floor on value.

Jonathan Gray

The underlying drivers of this market - resources, energy - are continuing to run very strongly at record highs in copper, nickel, zinc, aluminum, gold ... oil prices are back to 68 bucks a barrel despite this wonderful, balmy weather we're having.

Gavin Graham

One feels slightly more positive about the outcome because some of the problems have been able to be reversed, but the underlying problem remains, he still had further bleeding and that doesn't change the prognosis, which still looks dire.

Anthony Rudd

This is the underlying thing that's saving us- people still like to travel.

Don Holecek

There's clearly a wait-and-see attitude. Still, the underlying economics are still strong enough that job holders will get into the market -- interest rates still represent a bargain.

Glenn Crellin

The details of the report suggest many of these drags on growth were one-off factors and that the underlying trend in 2006 remains strong.

Charmaine Buskas

In a way, pretty faces are rewarding. They make us more likely to think good thoughts. There are some underlying processes going on in the brain that prejudice us to respond to attractive people better even if we are not aware of it.

Ingrid Olson

The underlying trend of consumer spending has been quite solid recently due to the improvement in the job and wage market. Consumption was strong last quarter and played a key role in supporting growth and we can expect further growth from consumption this year.

Seiji Adachi

The figures show that the economy has climbed out of a weak patch and that the underlying trend in capital spending is very strong.

Seiji Adachi

The company has begun to deliver profitable year-over-year growth in our analog, mixed-signal and embedded products. We achieved 18 percent year-over-year growth in these product categories, we have a strong cash position, and the underlying fundamentals of the business are strong.

David D. French

Our underlying business experienced distinct improvements, including cash generation, in the current quarter. We continue to be selective with our product mix to maximize our financial results, and we are continuing to capitalize on opportunities that exist in our region, including emerging markets, by offering innovation, differentiation, and speed-to-market advantages to our customers.

Bill Lowe

There is underlying caution, even on the part of Saudi Arabia, about the second quarter. I wouldn't rule out the potential for bullish language about a possible cut in March or April.

Michael Wittner

Whirlpool is hitting on all cylinders despite a challenging cost environment. You're going to see underlying profitability improve significantly in the near term with new product innovation and easier comparisons.

Craig Hutson

Underlying everything is a country-folk foundation. You're not going to see us do a Metallica or Snoop Dogg song.

Chris Hillman

That (13 percent) seems small and normal -- and means the underlying personal income tax base is growing nicely.

Fred Silva

It's gross. I don't know what it says about me or the people in the business. But mucus is the underlying problem. People talk about the symptoms and relief, but we're the only ones talking about the underlying causes of the symptoms.

M'lou Arnett

If the Fed is just neutral, what's really going to move the market higher is more progress on the earnings front. You're going to want to be overweight in those companies that have the greatest underlying earnings growth, and that's technology.

Kevin Caron

He didn't specifically tell us that we shouldn't be doing it, which we took to mean that we had at least some underlying support in the CUPD, who are union members.

Wes Hannah

The bottom-line (earning-per-share) number was a little better than expected, but some of the underlying trends showed some softness, particularly the loan and deposit growth.

Joe Morford

There's underlying racial tension in the jail, but no major incidents.

Tim Bedwell

As we face tougher comparisons in the second half of this year, it is unlikely we will sustain this level of performance, ... Yet, the underlying trends are very encouraging.

Alan Feldman

There are lots of underlying problems in the whole system.

Tom Underwood

We have seen strong buying of bonds this week by foreigners. The underlying tone for bonds is to buy into any weakness, which suggests that the market expects bond yields to keep firming in the coming months.

Michael Keenan

With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to be contained, further interest rate hikes seem unnecessary.

Angus Campbell

I think the musicians are addressing it. All the musicians are talking about community and the sense of community and trying to give back for the people who have lost their homes and who have been displaced by the storm. It's really the underlying current for the festival this year.

Patti Thomas

This has created tensions. They are underlying, they're not out on the surface, but they are there.

Lee Huenecke

They have all been elderly people who had serious underlying diseases.

Randy Hanzlick

In some ways, the symbolism of this referendum may be more important to this administration than the actual substance because the referendum is not likely to alter the underlying security environment. And, in fact, there is some chance that it may make matters even worse.

Ted Carpenter

We're seeing a reduced impact from the hurricanes and we're getting back to the underlying norm. We're looking for about an 80,000 increase in non-farm payrolls in October, and it's still picking up.

Stephen Gallagher