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It's a big step in fire communications ? the biggest upgrade that's been undertaken in at least 25 years.

Larry Langford

This latest win confirms our ongoing commitment to providing operators with innovative technology to enable them to easily replace and upgrade their HLR capacity to support subscriber growth needs at reduced capital and operating expenses. Motorola endeavors to ensure that operators in emerging markets get the most out of every function and resource in their network.

Ali Amer

We believe this [upgrade] must be revolutionary. We hope to make an architecture decision in the first half of this year.

Len Lauer

(This) will upgrade the resources from the 'inferred' to the 'indicated' category necessary to advance the project to a pre-feasibility stage.

Walter Brown

Fortunately, we were not in the construction phase and were able to have the architects make significant changes ... to upgrade the foundation, for instance, ... It was all done in the planning phase.

Robert Seidman

We're pretty sure that because of the upgrade, this quirky, little-used option didn't work.

Brian Rust

We enter the back half of the year with many more of our new merchandise programs now in place that have shown early success; coupled with our extensive store upgrade program for the year substantially completed, we are positive about the prospects for the balance of the year.

George Heller

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in San Antonio now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into San Antonio as well.

Kurt Kuehn

I fell in love with the library, ... When I knew we would be getting a brand new building, I decided to get my master's degree so I could upgrade my contribution and become a full-time librarian. Geneva is a wonderful town and I wanted to give it my best.

Bill Stokes

There's been a continuous upgrade since the bombing of the Murrah building.

Tim Hogan

They will need to upgrade the search capabilities to be more personal, targeted and better. An area of technology they should work on is context of search. So if you type in the world 'Polish' and you're looking for Polish ancestry, you won't get results for car polish.

Allen Weiner

If they already have a computer system running Windows 95, there's not a lot of reason for them to go out and buy Windows 98. In fact, we expect the majority of Windows 98 upgrade sales to go to PC enthusiasts.

Chris Letocq

The dominance of the handset subsidy model and 12-month upgrade cycles in Western Europe combined with the introduction of a number of highly publicized, multimedia-oriented high-end handsets to drive demand in a mature market that is witnessing saturation of subscriber growth.

Andrew Brown

We continue to upgrade the crafts.

Jim Ware

We want to focus a lot of attention on this neighborhood. We want to upgrade the water lines, public sewer system and pave the streets.

Tom Harp

Continuing sharp improvements in Venezuela's external and debt indicators motivated the upgrade. High oil prices have generated large current account surpluses for the country, which in turn has boosted the external assets of the public sector.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Software Assurance has outlived its usefulness. The farther we get into this [new upgrade cycle], the less attractive SA has begun to look.

Paul Degroot

We're trying to upgrade and play tougher teams. But you never know how tough they're going to be. We want to play the toughest people we can for our fans.

Donnie Jones

The only real complaint from our customers is that we needed to upgrade the restroom facilities.

Cindy Knopp

This scale of capital upgrade is certainly not a common occurrence here, but it is something that the Cape could certainly use more of.

Mark O'brien

I don't remember anybody saying how much money we've just spent to upgrade the physical facilities at our schools, which would be part of that complex of issues.

Paul Brewbaker

The first priority that was identified was to upgrade the patient rooms. We're going to put out a request for proposals soon to get people designing projects for us.

Mike Donlin

It would be an opportunity for them to show off the product and [have subscribers consider an] upgrade to our digital tier.

Tom Haywood

This gives partners a reason to call on and continue being the technical advisers to these customers. Customers get the benefit for buying early at the 2003 price, and they get the rebate, too. Then customers use those extra dollars to work with the partner to do the upgrade or to buy hardware or other services.

Margo Day

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Los Angeles now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Los Angeles as well.

Kurt Kuehn

We are likely to upgrade our 2006 numbers slightly as a result, and do not believe that the shares look expensive relative to the peer group, once allowance is made for the cash on the balance sheet.

Geoff Miller

People will be encouraged by the upgrade of U.S.-Taiwan relations from Chen's high-level exposure and high-level access.

Andrew Yang

The prosecutor took information into consideration and said law enforcement had probable cause to upgrade the charge.

Spencer Mann

We were able to deliver this upgrade without changing the price. So essentially for our customers, it's basically $1.86 per gigabyte for this high level of storage.

Alex Grossman

When we started the upgrade project planning in 2004, the cost estimate was around $2 million. Since then, the total project costs have increased to $3 million in order for us to meet the state's requirements. It just keeps getting tougher and more costly to meet all the regulations.

Peter W. Gutsie

This is not about derailing the storm drain upgrade process or saving me $100 per year. In management of a corporation or a city, you have to prioritize where your money goes, and I don't think there's anything higher than public safety and infrastructure.

Don Reeves

[Despite the promised performance improvements, the new processor] doesn't fundamentally change UltraSparc and Sun's positioning in any way, ... It's the type of incremental upgrade that computer makers sort of have to deliver.

Gordon Haff

We've received about $2 million and will use all of it in this effort. Some of it will go into additional cooking equipment, which we needed because of being at six different locations (last fall). We're also trying to upgrade our communications equipment.

Randy Foster

It's good for a building that people upgrade, but there are physical things you have to look out for.

Richard Grossman

The Northrop Grumman PRP team worked aggressively with the Air Force and ATK to ensure this remaining piece of the restructure was implemented on schedule. We are now fully positioned to move forward with the remaining PRP program options to deliver this important reliability upgrade to the Air Force on cost and schedule.

John Clay

The conditions are in place to make this a compelling upgrade.

Spencer White

Even the recent upgrade in our ratings outlook would not trigger investors to aggressively position in the market today.

Nestor Aguila

We take those things and kind of upgrade them. Give them a little twist, a little finesse, but it still has those flavors and those textures that people identify from their childhood.

Charlie Palmer

If you want it residential, that means you would have to upgrade the stairways, and if you upgrade the stairways, you're going to kill the historic look of it.

Joseph Sater

Six years in (from the last upgrade) and the state asked for another upgrade.

James Wallace

I think the news of Mexico's upgrade to investment grade also is helping Brazil. People are thinking Brazil could also have some sort of upgrade.

Carlos Augusto Levorin

So let's work harder to upgrade our National sides as we look forward to the future.

John Koh

In the beginning, the only benefit it really had was the right to upgrade. But since [Microsoft] has added so many new benefits over the years, many more people are looking at it now.

Alvin Park

I think we're always pleased to see a property owner downtown who's willing to upgrade their property. That's a good sign. I'm very excited about the renovation and hope that will bring some new life downtown and to the south part of Munn Park.

Anne Furr

Target a flight that is likely to be full or overbooked. Airlines overbook because people do not turn up. Sometimes their projections are wrong and they will upgrade one or two people, (this is called cabin roll).

Roger Collis

We need to upgrade those. We have the smallest, oldest stadium [in Chain of Lakes Park, which was built in the 1960s], but that's not a huge negative, because it's a charming place. The facility is the real issue.

Bob Dibiasio

We are going to train the toilet cleaners to upgrade himself or herself to a level where he or she can take care of the entire toilet, including changing bulbs, repairing locks, repairing leaky taps, doing periodical heavy cleaning, technical cleaning, taking away urine salt inside the toilet and recommending changes to the toilet layout.

Jack Sim

And we still might upgrade that, but that takes a lot more study.

Jody Aaron

We will have everything there from minimum wage/part-time work to management positions at $40,000. There is no longer just your entry-level data base here. The Job Fair is geared to anyone looking for an employment upgrade, a job change, educational and training benefits, or that first job.

Linda Schell

Our office worked hard with Federal Realty, encouraging them to first buy the center and then upgrade it. Since Federal Realty has taken ownership, the center has been totally rehabilitated, landscaping has been added, new quality anchor tenants have come, new buildings have been built, and finally the center is pedestrian friendly.

Jeff Mckay

It's encouraging to see an upgrade in the outlook and business investment will be supportive of economic growth.

Andrew Hanlan

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Chris Beard

Doesn't fundamentally change UltraSparc and Sun's positioning in any way. It's the type of incremental upgrade that computer makers sort of have to deliver.

Gordon Haff

We're excited about this upgrade. This is the kind of equipment you'll find at some of the biggest papers in the country, and there's only a handful in the state.

Jimmy Ruff

The ability to upgrade is important.

Scott Briggs

For many, many years, communication has been pretty basic. The last major upgrade opportunity, the last major change, was really around Y2K. That was the biggest change-out.

Richard Mcleod

If I'm a customer, I'm not going to be very happy if I've already paid $1,000 for your system and I have to pay another $99 for an upgrade. We (as a retailer) have to keep customers happy and bring them back to the store.

Randall Baumberger

We see solid growth in Cisco's enterprise market, as businesses upgrade their networks to handle increased bandwidth requirements.

Ari Bensinger

Even though we lost the game big, it was good for us to upgrade the schedule.

Jeff Neal

The potential advantages of Office 12 sound interesting, although they're hardly earthshaking. Are these the kind of changes that are going to compel companies to rush out and immediately upgrade? We don't think so.

Tom Austin

Typically, you can get 20 to 25 years out of a mechanical operation system like a pump station. So obviously, this station was due for an upgrade.

Timothy Brown

The most widely used vertical missile launcher in the fleet, the MK 41 is a high-performance, survivable and versatile system that requires minimal manning and training, and is integral to the United States' sea-based ballistic missile defense program. Our open architecture design also enables us to continually upgrade the MK 41 and meet current and future threats to our nation's security.

Dave Broadbent

The main thing is to upgrade the Legion. Business has changed dramatically in the last 50 years and in order to survive the Legion has to change.

Don Macdonald

We are definitely looking at it, like we participated in the earlier bond sale by Indonesia. There is going to be a rating upgrade, which is positive.

Desmond Soon

We're seeing a good chunk of our customer base upgrade to 2005 to take advantage of query and analysis performance on the Web.

Clay Young

I'm going to upgrade it a bit more. All I want to do is take care of my residents and make sure they are safe. I'll do what I have to do to make sure they are safe.

Hannah Watson

The reserves are of significant importance to upgrade the China image in the international economic arena, strengthen the nation's macro-control capabilities and guard against financial risks.

Xiao Zhuoji

The Z22 is a fairly strategic product, ... The goal is to bring new users into what they call the 'Palm economy' in the hope that, in a year or two, they may upgrade to a more fully featured model.

Todd Kort

The sad part about electronics is once you buy it it is obsolete. We live in a disposable society, when they upgrade they just throw it away.

Paula Clark

That's prompting accountants to upgrade their offerings.

Diane Kennedy

The next issues for investors in Mexico should be the timing of an S&P upgrade (likely to be mid-year, although maybe earlier) and the U.S. economic recovery (on track with our above-consensus view).

Geoffrey Dennis

I'm requesting that they upgrade the charge to an aggravated battery because it involved hot coffee, which is an aggravating factor. When you throw hot coffee at someone, it constitutes that level of a charge.

Kevin O'connor

A color screen would be a positive, ... Doing that could spur some people to want to upgrade.

Shaw Wu

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in New York now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into New York as well.

Kurt Kuehn

The decision says that local governments can take private property and give it to another entity, if the second is going to upgrade the property in some way. There is no reason why this would not apply to businesses. The only check remaining is the political dynamics of local government. To the extent that businesses do not have political clout, they will also be vulnerable.

Mark Moller

This is nothing dramatic following Texas Instruments' upgrade last week.

Per Lindberg

We have completed the assessment, rectification and upgrade of our critical systems and equipment as of June 30, 1999.

Christina Lee

If they upgrade (the road), I'm all for it. The dust is horrible.

Penny Lee

That would allow us to attract bigger shows. We would also upgrade any technologies that have come on the scene.

Ray Rose

The upgrade is based on the company's demonstrated ability, as reflected in improved operating performance and capitalization, to successfully operate in the challenging New York State regional market.

James Sung

They've changed their offense because of those freshmen. They really needed to upgrade their speed and talent.

Donte Whitner

More and more operators would like to reuse existing sites and leverage the technology they already have in place as they upgrade their networks.

Mikael Stromquist

We're pleased to be able to offer Parade magazine each Sunday to our readers. We're always looking for ways to upgrade our products to better serve our customers. We believe our subscribers will appreciate the lively and interesting content of Parade.

Mark Baker

We are very happy with the performance and services we are deploying on our CDMA EV-DO network and how seamless and easy it is for customers and ourselves to upgrade services and employ advanced services.

Theresa Gattung

Obviously, Halloween is our busiest time of year. It's normally when we do our biggest volume of business. But once the storm hit we lost power. We used generators at our warehouse to run four FedEx computers to prepare shipments. We paid to upgrade all of our orders to Next Day FedEx delivery to get costumes to people in time for Halloween.

Shari Maxwell

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Cincinnati now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Cincinnati as well.

Kurt Kuehn

ESA is the strategic direction of the SAP product and it is a great example of why it's important to understand the upgrade path in the future.

Rod Masney

What can help Intel is a corporate PC upgrade cycle. People have been expecting one for some time but it is yet to happen.

Jay Wong

Redeveloping an existing area of a community is far more expensive than an area that has never been developed. You need to give owners or potential new owners incentives to upgrade or provide new buildings.

Mayor Gary Wescott

They're doing pretty much exactly what we did three years ago. But the unanswered question in all this is what are they going to do in terms of fleet enhancement. In our experience it cost $1.5bn to upgrade our planes. I don't see that type of investment as likely from BA, as this is a very peripheral part of the overall business.

Jim French

Our success with Arena's On-Demand PLM solution over the last three years validates our belief that on-demand software is the best model upon which to build our IT strategy around. Moving forward, we have dedicated 70% of our IT budget to on-demand applications and services. With our upgrade to Enterprise Edition, we're affirming Arena's PLM solution as the cornerstone of our IT strategy.

Michael Foreshew

It's undoubtedly one of the most attractive if not the most spectacular developments in the entire Tampa Bay area. It will certainly upgrade the image of Brooksville and Hernando County as a whole.

Marvin Rose

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

Right now, we do have a lot of corporate customers who are looking to upgrade their systems. That's why we were quite excited and honored to showcase our system with AMD.

James Huang

Overall earnings revision trends going into reporting season appear very healthy in an aggregate sense, with the market remaining in net upgrade mode.

David Cassidy

The most important aspect as you go up in price is you get the spring-loaded model, which takes some of the shock off your elbows and shoulders, and they get lighter. It's like anything else: People are skeptical in the beginning, and they won't invest in the over-$100 pole. They start at $65, and eventually upgrade.

Rich Orr

There's no doubt the equipment manufacturers want to make a buck out of the upgrade.

Adrian Wilson

Georgia DOT has a project now to upgrade that two lane section to a four lane divided highway.

Teri Pope

I think that the market had already re-priced for a faster than expected upgrade given the aggressive debt liability management.

Siobhan Morden

If you delay the supply chain to the extent that prices go up and the cost of doing business with America is too high, and you have several shipping companies that can't upgrade their security, then the terrorists have won.

Noel Cunningham

The ratings upgrade is justified because things in Hong Kong are really improving.

Henry Tsoi

The ability of the military to easily upgrade its deployed fleet of LHGXA antennas with this new capability, while maintaining backward compatibility with its terminals and satellites, is clearly a force multiplier.

Dan Pearson

The hope is that we'll be encouraging users to upgrade to broadband because a majority of them will be able to get high-speed connections.

Anne Bentley

Employers have identified existing workers who can upgrade their skills.

Jim Wall

This gives property owners a chance to upgrade. It creates more opportunities.

Jay Fisette

Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.

Rajeev Sharma

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Atlanta now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Atlanta as well.

Kurt Kuehn

Only with the upgrade can we set up more branches in China.

Werner Zedelius

There aren't very many hydro plants we can upgrade left.

Jim Leonard

The unit numbers last year were maybe disappointing globally ... (but) with the FCC mandate to broadcast digitally, people will have to upgrade their TVs.

Barry Mills

Right now we have to figure out what we're going to do next. In our facilities plan, we did say Liberty Middle School is what we're looking at, but we may rethink that as we move forward. We've got to continue to upgrade our facilities.

Superintendent Mendel Stewart

The remodeling includes upgrades that are in conjunction with 911, but they also benefit the sheriff's office. Now we have a new radio system. The remodeling and rearranging is a nice upgrade for our dispatch center.

Larry Sanders

We are real careful about equity. We try to upgrade other schools at the same time. We may hold off if we can't do it at all schools.

Richard Wilkinson

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Dallas now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Dallas as well.

Kurt Kuehn

If they like it that way, they could continue but if they must upgrade, then they need the new permits, so they should apply.

Dr. Ernest Ndukwe

This will fill a gap in the market. It will upgrade the whole area, because we are building something that doesn't exist. We are trying to build a community.

Larry Feldman

By year end, Microsoft will have introduced a major upgrade to every one of its significant platform and application products.

Richard Gardner

Creativity is an important part of modern teaching and learning. It made sense to take their idea and upgrade it using emerging twenty-first century technology.

Paul Scott

We're moving to a new server. Basically, it's a better server and an upgrade that just takes some time.

Lisa Gross

We need to upgrade Wyoming's academic standards and reputation. The Hathaway scholarship has put us on a road to be the best and the first in education.

Jim Mcbride

We need to cultivate civic virtues, enhance the observance of public order, upgrade the level of service and strive to bring about a new social environment.

Zhang Huiguang

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Boston now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Boston as well.

Kurt Kuehn

Gradually upgrade weapons and other equipment and improve the defense capabilities and combat effectiveness of the army under modern technical and especially high-tech conditions.

Li Peng

Ray's generosity is helping upgrade the lake. We wish we had more neighbors like him. He's putting plant growth where it belongs -- in the wetlands. A guy who is so sensitive about nature is rare.

Jim Wallace

Although we plan to upgrade soon to a more powerful processor, we try to make as few changes as possible.

Robert Miggins

Users have had the opportunity to upgrade for a long time. It's unlikely that they would choose to do so now as a result of this announcement.

Dan Kaminsky

This industry has just taken for granted people will show up on Friday and Saturday nights. If we don't upgrade, we're obsolete.

Guy Webb

The idea of the coaching convention is, first of all, to upgrade the standard of coach education in Europe and thereby further develop the quality of football in general. The second aim is to facilitate the free movement of coaches within the countries who have signed the agreement.

Andy Roxburgh

I ain't watching you do this crap. If you want to use some common sense here and try to upgrade your pitching, then we're going to stay. But if not, forget it.

John Rocker

I think the most encouraging part of what they're doing is that they have had now a certain amount of incremental time since Allen came on board to upgrade the executive suite, so to speak. The people are very experienced people that have a better sense of how a centrally managed business works.

Bruce Missett

We have had an upgrade. We're way better than we were last year. We should have a lot of confidence going in that we can do something.

Myron Corbett

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, ... In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.

Jeffrey Bezos

It is nice; Robin will be able to upgrade his computer and he won't have to spend four days wandering around looking for the best mail-order value from fly-by-night companies.

Barry Marshall

The greenery, new lights, architecture and promising stores will all be a nice upgrade for the community.

Angel Hernandez

If you look at why people are not buying PCs, most of the things I've seen say it's not price, it's the usability, ... Consumers are asking themselves, 'Why do I need to upgrade?' So by reducing prices, I don't know that there is this huge unmet demand that's going to bring in a lot of new purchasers.

Stephen Baker

The market is already pricing in that (the debt upgrade) is coming. That improves the country's (economic) perspective.

Carlos Samano

I've said all along that we could combine everyone to one school and it won't matter if we don't upgrade our feeder system.

Jeff Hanni

To upgrade to IA 64, all you have to do is replace a cell board in the product. With IBM, you're going to have to switch systems, and with Sun, you're going to have to switch vendors.

Duane Zitzner

This is part of our regular, two-month upgrade cycle, and deals in part with eight vulnerabilities identified by us and our users.

Mike Schroepfer

The latest results show that our profit-generating capabilities have improved further, as we saw a profit turnaround even as we were boosting expenses to upgrade our production capacity in order to cope with surging global demand.

Takeshi Suzuki

China Unicom's CDMA network needs only a software upgrade to become CDMA2000. It takes a few months to do.

Dave Carini

Raising profit thresholds are in line with the regulator's pledge to help good-quality companies raise capital and upgrade market fundamentals. Investors will be glad to see the market shutting its doors to poor performers.

Li Zhi

Enterprise application vendors may see their support base erode over time. I'd like to see vendors not only offer premium support package but a reduced level of service options for customers that need more support and less likely to upgrade.

Paul Hamerman

The investor world of the stock widens enormously with an upgrade, so it is now rising on expectations of higher liquidity.

Renato Vercesi

If the debt upgrade happens, it will likely benefit banking issues the most.

Carlos Samano

Until we can upgrade the hurricane protection system, residents who return to previously flooded areas will be at some risk.

Robert Crear

[For Mexican companies, the upgrade] makes it more likely that they will invest, and makes their profitability higher, creating a more competitive and strong corporate sector. That's not something that's a five-day wonder --- it's a long-term factor, ... This market is going to go quite a bit higher.

Geoffrey Dennis

Many of our customers use the Super Bowl as an excuse to upgrade their home entertainment centers, whether they?re watching the game or not. We seem to be doing well enough without the Patriots? help.

Robert Hansen

You can use our product to upgrade your database, pause your database [and] do work on it. The customer will still be running while the upgrades are being rolled out. It's basically clustering or load balancing—but across WANs.

Alan Mcmillan

There was an upgrade in the economic assessment by the BOJ and comments from governor Fukui. From that point of view an end to the zero interest rate policy is coming closer.

Carsten Fritsch

Another benefit to Simply Accounting Entrepreneur customers is the ability to easily upgrade to other Simply Accounting versions, as their business needs become more sophisticated.

Laurie Schultz

It gives us a chance to upgrade our system and all our voting equipment.

Linda Smith

Once you give it to them, you can't take it away, ... Parents are going to experience a lot of pressure to upgrade.

Ben Rogers

They just needed an upgrade. I think they saw an opportunity to upgrade with Cleveland. Denver saw an opportunity to get some parts that were better than the parts they had.

Brian Waters

On the PC side, we're seeing a rolling upgrade cycle. People are continuing to upgrade desktops and notebooks. We expect a strong back-to-school season, as well.

Bill Fearnley

It's tough, because you're messing with how you make a living, ... But I needed that upgrade. Just to show I could do it.

Tony Gwynn

A significant reason for this trend is customer desire to minimize integration, upgrade, and maintenance issues among the different layers of the software stack. (Customers) also want to deal with fewer providers to ensure better pricing and accountability.

Kash Rangan

The system software can be upgraded to support new devices and new in-car experiences over the life of the car similar to how we upgrade software on PCs today.

Nate Murphy

We recognize the need to upgrade our 911 centers. It's critical that our first responders have that information at hand as they're responding to the scene of an event.

Jason Keller

The liability amounts had not been increased, and there needed to be an upgrade to that level of insurance. It was probably not a bad idea to have the additional insurance.

Hal Bozarth

It's not wrong having it the old way. We can't and we aren't going to go out and retrofit everyone we have. We have to wait until there is a maintenance issue or upgrade.

Mark Teague

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Carlos Augusto Levorin

The Lehman upgrade of Cisco will have an initial positive impact on the tech sector.

Richard Skaggs

I'm asking you to please upgrade that property.

William Booker

Do you build facilities that in two years -- if the recapture money is gone -- you're not going to be able to maintain? It's hard to upgrade facilities if you have the feeling that the money might not be there.

Bret Kingsbury

We shall take the necessary steps to upgrade our control and financial reporting infrastructure to meet our regulatory and reporting commitments.

Richard Syron

Our message is that Windows Me is a timely upgrade. Our focus between now and the end of year is really about communicating the great products that are available today.

John Frederiksen

From the beginning, this truck was supposed to be for both of us. But then I got pregnant, so we're playing it safe, ... When we started building it, I didn't want him regretting anything, or buying something that he would want to upgrade later. So I told him, 'spare no expense.'

Carlos Herrera

With competitors in flux and new distribution opportunities presenting themselves, the network division must take this moment in time to upgrade the quality of our distribution by launching more products.

Peter Kosann

Last year, the intensifying infrastructure upgrade cycle drove IT spending to its fastest rate of growth since Y2K.

Stephen Minton

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

Conrad Burns

This isn't unique to Eudora. Currently [Eudora] doesn't disclose personal information. Still, the intrusion of something on your screen [telling you whether an upgrade is available] is an invasion of privacy. It may be an acceptable one, but it is an invasion.

Robert Ellis Smith

It is a real problem and a real drain on teachers, but I've always found that every time I get an upgrade of technology, my workload doesn't get easier. It's kind of a Band-aid, a little gimmick that he's using to sell teachers on this.

Mark Pudlow

I think it is wise. Hers is a bad story and when you are in the middle of a bad story, the overriding challenge is to get it out of the press. You can't spin this story. The best PR advice she can get in my view is to keep her mouth shut and decide against trying to upgrade her image.

Fraser Seitel

Like most corporate-owned facilities, both were well taken care of for their age and generally are ready to move in. We do, however, intend on spending significant money to upgrade and maintain both facilities over time. Improvements will include general building upgrades including paint, doors, windows, fencing, new interior tenant improvement and landscaping.

Matt Marks

Maybe they need to upgrade their skills on the computer. We can do a one-time class in Word or Excel or Access, which can give them an advantage over someone else.

Clark Jacobs

There are lots of good reasons why IT end-users will upgrade infrastructure -- and that's hardware and software -- (at the) tail end of this year.

George O'connor

By Leon County not being compliant and not having the systems or contracts to upgrade the systems in place, it puts the entire state in jeopardy.

Jenny Nash

[At least one analyst was unimpressed.] Software Assurance has outlived its usefulness, ... The farther we get into this [new upgrade cycle], the less attractive SA has begun to look.

Paul Degroot

Without programs like this, it would be nearly impossible for our department to upgrade to modern technology for our volunteers to be able to effectively communicate between not only themselves, but other departments as well. This is a crucial update that we have been attempting to complete since the county first started talking about upgrading their systems a few years ago.

Liz Davis

We're also going to teach them how to dress for work so that eventually they can upgrade the status of their jobs. We're trying to make (this program) completely well-rounded.

Gabrielle Mcguire

We are breaking the IOS functions into separate units so that a software upgrade or patch can be added without shutting down the entire switch. Simplifying the software certification and deployment processes is a big benefit for our customers.

John Yen

We are not suggesting 'don't buy a PC. The PC upgrade cycle will continue. But don't delay the adoption of an operating system until you get a new PC.

Don Barnetson

When the software is installed, if [a user] doesn't have the latest version of [Microsoft's] Internet Explorer 5.5, it will automatically upgrade his browser and put up the UPS home page as his home page. The software doesn't give you a choice of whether or not you want to upgrade. Our software developers understood that if it was upgraded, [a customer's] browser had to go to our home page.

Steve Holmes

It's quite shocking. We don't really know how investors are going to react. We have to see how fast the Tokyo Stock Exchange can upgrade its system.

Kirby Daley

Desktop Linux is less expensive for schools to buy and less expensive for IT administrators to upgrade.

Kevin Carmony

There is an IBM Power5 upgrade coming as well.

Gordan Haff

I think we've been able to do both. (We've) placed more emphasis on health and wellness and physical fitness programming and we're continuing to upgrade that.

Gayle Bradley

The upgrade was based on improving business and financial performance driven by strong Internet ad demand.

Andy Liu

We've spent more than $150 million to upgrade to a digital HDTV signal. And the cable operators are using the HD signal to get people to switch to their more expensive digital cable package.

Barry Faber

WPP has delivered strong preliminary results, ahead of our forecasts and the consensus. We expect to upgrade following this morning's meeting.

Lorna Tilbian

We all want to upgrade diplomatic representation in Iraq and there are no political obstacles to sending a Saudi ambassador to Iraq. But the issue is related to security impediments, if these obstacles are removed, then there will be no problem.

Saud Al faisal

Anytime you have multiple picks early in the draft you should be able to add depth to your system. When you have the opportunity to do that, you have to make the most of it and replenish your minor league system. ... Overall, if those players are who we think they're going to be and develop for us, it's an opportunity to upgrade the system from the top to bottom.

Bruce Manno

Eighty percent of our buyers take the wiring upgrade. It's great for resale value.

Jennifer Baker (sales)

This technology not only helps to lower the cost of operation, but it also allows you to make changes to the architecture in a rolling upgrade fashion without having to bring the system down, so you can still have that high level of availability.

Brad Day

This project to me, is (about) renovations. We have to upgrade everything in this building.

Dr. Robert Wood

As future installations of Office and Access delivered by technology and service providers must be of the new version, it is important that companies upgrade their existing installations.

Jeff Campbell

Kinross' exciting growth profile is evidence of our strategic objective of increasing cash flow and net asset value for shareholders. Kinross is driving forward with growth through the expansion of existing facilities. We will then use strategic acquisitions to upgrade our portfolio of mines.

Tye Burt

I'm excited about the second half of the year. That's when we'll likely see Vista and Office 12, some of the most significant releases in the company's history. I think that will lead to a PC upgrade cycle in the second half of the year.

Michael Cohen

Sun has to keep up with the other guys. IBM is going to be coming out with the Power5+ soon. The reality is in this industry you have to put a lot of energy into running to stay in place. What happens if you don't make these kinds of advances is you fall behind. So this upgrade is in some respects about maintaining parity with the competition.

Gordon Haff