Clearly with any set of results it is possible to put a spin on, but the underlying figures don't lie. We sought to involve leaders in information technology to make the results as useful as possible.

Chris Potter

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Looking only at 'affected areas' could understate the storm impacts, due to linkages between ports and more distant facilities.... we know that jobless claims have fallen off sharply as we moved past the storm impacts, another hint of underlying labor market vitality.

Avery Shenfeld

It's an extremely important and valuable tool for any governmental entity to make as much information available to the public as possible. The underlying premise is that government business should be done in public and be transparent.

Tim Gleason

I think the underlying economy is still pretty darn good.

Jeffrey Immelt

There is no question that obesity is the underlying cause. We have identified a new problem related, in part, to the increasing amount of fat in patients' buttocks.

Victoria Chan

This trend of the stabilization of the broad stock market we've been seeing lately will continue through the year. We saw a sharp recovery in stock prices last year, but right now stocks are fairly valued versus the underlying fundamentals.

Ben Halliburton

They are still doing many of the same types of activities that they used to do, for example, passing a note in class. Now, they can text several people at the same time. The underlying urges are the same, what technology has done is allow them to be taken to a new level.

Chip Walker

When you cut through some of the issues associated with Asia, the underlying demand for personal computer technology is still quite healthy.

Walter Winnitzki

In our view, Lucent's problems in optical reflect poor execution, but do not signal a slowdown in the underlying industry spending in optical.

Walter Piecyk

We think the underlying momentum in the Fed policy story warrants more explicit long dollar exposure.

James Mccormick

I really think that the scare of the auto shock has run its course. I think business people now are collectively coming to the realization that yeah, it's going to be a harder economy to make a buck, but we have to face it.' We've seen some underlying strength in the last nine months, but now that they've come to that realization, they're ready to get in the game.

Joe Ross

Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and interpretations, the clutter that blinds, that disguises that underlying, all-encompassing design. . .

Toni Cade Bambara

Lack of rains is the trigger but the underlying causes are complex and include Aids.

Clare Rudebeck

The weakness in the stock market, the fact that the charts and trends look so bad, is going to keep an underlying bid under the bond market.

Andrew Brenner

This fund brings a new level of transparency to the underlying commodities-futures market, and also allows investors to trade throughout the day.

Kevin Rich

At the heart of the U.N. debate on terrorism are underlying issues of defining power, just war theory and double standards. There is some hope that in 2006 the long-awaited Comprehensive Convention Against International Terrorism, which includes a definition of terrorism, will be presented to the General Assembly.

Alex P. Schmid

In our perception there is tremendous underlying interest in sustainable production and locally-sourced food which are rightly seen as offering potential solutions to current debates about protecting the environment, food security, animal welfare and other issues.

Patrick Holden

There's a big underlying problem with judges being identified with political parties, ... This case is a good reflection of the loss of public confidence that can lead to.

Tom Phillips

Despite the government's crude mechanism for measuring primary children's achievement, the underlying message is that primary teachers have sustained and secured further improvements in pupil performance. This is a very real cause for celebration. The government is now, rightly, distancing itself from the targets it had previously plucked out of the air.

Steve Sinnott

I think a turnaround is clearly under way. The underlying trends are really improving.

Nomi Ghez

Although numerous factors may make it difficult to understand our underlying performance this quarter, we are convinced that the actions we are taking will position us well for the future.

Ken Glass

[The true underlying agenda of Justice Sunday II was undisguised in the rousing speech given by Bishop Harry Jackson.] We need to tell both parties, 'It's our way or the highway,' ... You and I can bring the ruling reign of the cross to America.

Harry Jackson

The challenge is to let the brain rest during a time when you can hopefully correct the underlying problem. You're trying to save the healthy brain; you're not really doing anything for the brain that's already damaged.

Lee Schwamm

[Coke's] underlying business trends are as strong as they've been. There's no slowdown in that.

Anton Brenner

It's not what Steve knows, it's how he thinks. Jobs is a classically great leader because he is so skilled at questioning the underlying assumptions of any industry and using that insight to take advantage of ever-changing realities.

Justin Menkes

However, underlying performance is strong, amplified by high but volatile prices of oil, gas and products.

Lord Browne

I have a strong belief, kind of an underlying element of this whole project, that you can't really understand the future until you understand the past.

Doug Decker

This story lives in a very specific world - and yet the underlying scene of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds connects to any culture.

Rob Marshall

I've seen more paperwork on animal control than I have on fatal accidents. I'm very disgusted by this process. I don't know what's going on here ... if there's something underlying with the department, let's look at that, too.

Robert Peters

Odds are the findings are significantly related to the underlying religious beliefs of this population.

Richard Suzman

Unfortunately, the underlying details [of this report] suggest that it would be premature to break out the champagne.

Jay Bryson

The underlying health care costs are not going to go down. They will continue to grow annually in the 8%-to-10% range for as far as we can see. Managed care is over.

Glenn Melnick

The facilities are great, the kids are great, but there's an underlying pressure that's there and nobody talks about it. That's the way it is, and it sucks. We all want to win, but the kids and the relationships are why we do this. If it's the winning that drives us, I don't want to be part of it.

Greg Tacon

The figures continue the recent run of reports suggesting that underlying inflationary pressures remain muted. They suggest the bank does have room to cut rates if growth disappoints going forward.

Nick Kounis

Sterling has been remarkably robust in an environment where it could easily have lost ground, that encourages me that there has been some real underlying support and demand for the currency.

Simon Derrick

The output figure was below expectations, but it doesn't change our view that the underlying expansionary trend continues.

Takumi Tsunoda

A sector stock fund doesn't give one true exposure. There are times when the underlying commodity is moving and the companies are not. It's a different investment. So, when you're looking for true diversity, you want a direct relationship to the commodity.

Kevin Rich

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.

Anne Wilson Schaef

As soon as the market runs away a little bit, there's a little of profit taking, taking the wind out of the sails a little bit. The underlying feeling is there's plenty of money possibly coming into the market.

Mark Bon

[The issue has raised] many difficult and novel policy and regulatory issues, ... We need to resolve these policy and regulatory questions before we can reach a decision on the underlying science.

Lester Crawford

If energy prices remain high for long enough, there is a risk that they would bleed into underlying inflation.

Jeremy Friesen

We'll study it some more and look at some of those findings, go pull some of the underlying documents and see what they show or don't show.

Attorney General Pat Crank

Although the underlying operating performance in the third quarter met our overall expectations, our fundamentals still need to be much stronger. As we discussed last week with the investment community, we expect to make meaningful progress going forward by simplifying our portfolio, aggressively attacking costs, and increasing investments behind key brands.

Gary Rodkin

Businesses have an underlying reason to offer prizes. Sometimes they're trying to increase traffic but other times they're trying to gather demographic research of their audience.

Innate Mak

The market is taking a heavy reaction at the moment, but the message is actually positive for stocks. The Fed is saying generally that we continue to have reasonable economic activity, despite the storm, and that underlying inflation can be contained.

Jim Dunigan

Underlying growth is still okay at around 4%-5%, but what is important is that inflation does fall in the next two to three months.

Ping Chew

The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble.

Paul Dirac

The guidance for underlying revenue growth at Pearson Education and Penguin looks slightly lower than what we have currently forecast.

Charles Peacock

This time they felt that the underlying indicators were much more resilient.

Arjuna Mahendran

Today's meeting, while not resolving all underlying issues of concern, offered an opportunity to improve lines of communication and to increase mutual cooperation on issues related to national security and the prevention of hate crimes.

Nihad Awad

That's one of things that make it capital murder -- when it's in a commission of an underlying felony and kidnapping would be the underlying felony that supports capital murder in this case.

James Powell

[T]he sincere, sensitive artist, willing to go beneath the cliches of popular belief to get at an underlying reality, will be wary of confining a race's entire characters to a half-dozen narrow grooves.

Sterling Brown

We're challenging the underlying structure of the U.S. health system.

John Kitzhaber

The underlying themes are interest rates and commodity pricing. Home buying has slowed down, thus the consumer furnishings area has started to hurt, and in some cases consumers aren't buying any clothes anymore.

Joe Cooper

We have moved to begin the process of revoking the probation based on the seriousness of the underlying crime that placed him on probation. It will be up to a judge to decide what sanctions should be imposed.

Stephen Holmes

Both [the French and the euro-zone data] reflect higher oil prices rather than any rise in underlying inflation.

Gwyn Hacche

The underlying fundamentals are so tight that we always have to be concerned about the worst-case scenario. Last year, Ivan cut production by 1 million barrels a day and although that's not likely, it has to be taken into account.

Rick Mueller

Four or five underlying injuries which may surface at some time, so we have to be careful.

Stephen Fleming

The major markets overseas - Europe, Japan and Asia - have fairly solid underlying momentum. Japan is certainly improving and Europe is more like the Queen Elizabeth slowly turning around.

Brian Bethune

There are some signs that high oil prices are making consumers adjust the way they spend money and that will affect demand at the margin. But, underlying demand in the U.S. economy is pretty robust.

Standard Life

The evidence broadly viewed continues to point to underlying improvement in labor market conditions. Seasonal adjustment of weekly data is a tricky problem and especially so around holidays.

Ted Wieseman

Underlying the rise in prices is a strong world economy. The IEA is showing that demand continues to grow. We haven't seen the demand destruction that was expected to occur after prices jumped.

Eugene X. Hodge

It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of the market will continue through this quarter easily.

Ernie Ankrim

Basically, it's the same underlying picture and certainly supportive of the monetary policy action they've been undertaking.

Eric Lascelles

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

Emily Carr

You're going to see many more partnerships, and for a number of different reasons. The underlying reason is that we're getting smarter and more competitive.

Elaine Rubin

We are as confident as ever that our underlying core business activities will continue to develop and grow, generating future quality earnings.

Edward Forbes

Things have changed, ... We aren't in the underlying OS business anymore, which has freed us to partner with others.

Ed Colligan