Weaker consumer spending backs the case for interest rates on hold.

Tom Kenny

The traffic was much weaker than anyone was expecting. My guess is no one knows for sure how bad it was, including the company.

Ray Neidl

Would lead to a 40 percent cut in current benefits for middle-class beneficiaries, add 5 trillion dollars to our national debt and make the system weaker in the future.

John Salazar

We know that some individuals who have taken these diet medications have heart values that are thick and don't function properly. They can cause the heart to perform poorly over time and become weaker over time.

Michael Friedman

The company continues to rapidly expand capacity at a time when demand is coming in much weaker than anticipated, which we believe will have a leveraged and negative impact on margins in the fourth quarter and 2001.

Jonathan Joseph

If you have a fracture because of osteoporosis, you can prevent further bone loss. But by the time you've got a fracture, much of your skeleton is already weaker than it should be. So stopping further loss is good, but it's not the whole answer.

Tim Skerry

It's going to make our relative rank weaker.

John Underwood

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Marney Cox

I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

Joichi Ito

While core trends were solid, weaker revenue trends, particularly in logistics, prevented an in-line quarter.

Jon Langenfeld

Unions drag down business, growth is slower, and right-to-work laws weaken the unions. So when the unions are weaker, you tend to have more economic growth.

Lee Coppock

Though the economy is weaker than a year ago, this continued high level of warnings is a real concern.

Andrew Wollaston

It's tough because I'm 30. Motivations are weaker. I have my knee, which hurts. You play week after week, for several reasons you become weaker and unsure. You lose confidence.

Albert Costa

Licenses are a little better, though they could have been a bit stronger. Margins were a little weaker than the Street had been looking for.

John Segrich

At every turn, for better or for worse, the producers sought to destroy these relationships [that Bauer had], and consequently turn the show into something that it didn't start out being. ... I think it makes for a weaker show.

Dennis Haysbert

I ride the levee on my mountain bike and I know that there are areas that are thinner and weaker in places than others.

Victor Cabatuan

Domestic performance in May was weaker than anticipated.

Jim Goodwin

I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend.

Haseeb Ahmed

The forecast may suggest weaker-than-expected computer monitor demand.

Frank Wang

Any possible move out of Treasuries by the Chinese will lead to a weaker dollar. They're saying they're trying to diversify out of dollars and limit any fresh holdings of dollars. That's going to be bad for the U.S. currency over the long term.

Jan Lambregts

These latest comments are quite worrying, as it's the first indication that the central bank is thinking about cutting the rate. The suggestion that we're going to get lower rates is likely to lead to a weaker currency.

Sabrina Jacobs

A weaker yen against the dollar.

Maria Fiorini Ramirez

Despite its best efforts, HCA hospitals experienced weaker profitable admissions, intensifying local competition, higher operating costs and fast-rising uninsured patient volumes. HCA's fourth-quarter performance showcases the hospital industry's increasingly turbulent and tumultuous environment.

David Shove

You start to use your hands when you get out of a chair. Your legs just get weaker.

Anne Peterson

The major disappointment was perhaps the lack of revenue growth. If you look at each of the (defense unit) segments, they all with one exception seem weaker than anticipated.

Paul Nisbet

We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, particularly About.com, ... But elsewhere, advertising is weaker than expected.

Janet Robinson

The results were a bit weaker than expected, not due to its operating earnings but because the special payment was bigger than expected.

Konrad Becker

Koizumi's style is amazing -- sometimes he completely ignores logic. Okada is very logical, and I think on paper, more people would believe what Okada is talking about -- but his presence is weaker than Koizumi's.

Tsuneo Watanabe

Back in February, when we projected $55 oil, oil prices were falling. We projected a weaker price over the summer.

Greg Albrecht

So, too, will places such as the Gold Coast and selected regional areas on the eastern seaboard and the southwest cape. The areas that will lose market share over the next 20 years are the weaker capital cities and the bush.

Bernard Salt

Just about everybody had multiple hits and multiple scores. We just ran into a much weaker team.

Jose Ramos

Unfilled orders earlier in the year contributed to weaker sales results for the balance of the year for Russell Athletic. Additionally, sales weakness in Mossy Oak continued throughout the year, with declines of approximately 20% from 2004.

Jack Ward

She came here to parliament to tell strong stories about sniffers who are living in Yuendemu who are just lying down from petrol. It's just a gas that makes your body weaker and weaker and weaker.

Aaron Williams

News that the U.S. economy posted a weaker-than-expected 1.1% annual growth rate for the fourth quarter ... did not impact the oil-service stocks, which rallied by 1.8% (Friday) on the strength of better-than-expected quarterly results provided by Halliburton.

Jim Wicklund

The diffusion index was slightly weaker than expected but capital spending plans by big firms weren't bad for the start of a business year.

Mamoru Yamazaki

Under the state's grandfathering statute, you can only avoid current regulations and fall under older, and typically weaker regulations, if you're building the same project that was started at the on-set.

Bill Bunch

Our competitors are getting better. Across this world our competitors are getting better, ... The weaker links are having to drop out because they can't compete. The bar is being raised in this competitive arena so it's on our shoulders to do the right thing in this environment.

Lee Scott

This is certainly weaker than expected.

Phil Hill

The recovery is still being held back by the weaker consumer outlook.

John Butler

There's some selling of the dollar on what appears to be a little weaker demand in the U.S. economy.

Jeff Gladstein

This is terrific news for the Rod Smith campaign. What Davis is trying to do is just silliness. It's the weaker candidate trying to get the stronger candidate to get out.

Marc Farinella

We're a strong company, and frankly there are a lot of people that want to work for Nissan. Doing it now, from a time of strength, rather than some other time when we were weaker, makes a lot more sense.

Fred Standish

Too many mistakes. We've been making those all season. We've been able to overcome them against weaker opponents. Not tonight.

Dave Richardson

With Easter ahead of us people are cashing in. The American market was off overnight along with weaker oil and gold prices.

Margaret Morrissey

Crude oil was a little weaker, so that provides a stimulus to stock prices. And there's good cheer on the corporate news and recommendations front. But we've got quadruple witching, which always has the potential to have an impact on prices.

Michael Panzner

Given the very strong correlation which exists between the trade-weighted rand and the commodity indices, it is extremely difficult to call for a weaker rand in the current environment.

Lee Naisbitt

Over the lakes, the pull of gravity is much weaker, so we know there must be a big hole down there.

Robin Bell

Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a little weaker out of the gate.

Bruce Latimer

The market is going to do better as the economy slows some and the Fed's done. What's perverse is that the market would have done better this year if the economy were a little bit weaker, because you would have gotten the Fed out of the way earlier.

Jason Trennert

We agree that there is politics at play. It was politics that caused the DOR to retract a report that agreed with the inspector general's position on the issue and replace it with a weaker report co-authored by the very agency that the DOR was supposed to investigate.

Jack Mccarthy

These are very attractive levels to buy. Investors will take a weaker durable goods number as an excuse to get into the market.

Masayuki Yoshihara

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Eleanora Duse

Those types of announcements don't make the news but layoffs of any sort do. I think we're at a stage where healthy companies are hiring but that there is still a shakeout with some of the weaker companies.

Michael Cohen

Although it was a bit weaker than expected, output rose for five months in a row and rose more than one percent for the second consecutive month, showing its firmness.

Taro Saito

If you combine a weaker ISM and the Fed minutes, the market is definitely taking a dollar-bearish view.

Aaron Simpson

The weaker tone continues today, as in addition to bearish US inventory data, a slight warming trend is contributing to more brazen selling.

Ed Meir

He appeared much weaker, physically and mentally, he is having a very difficult time and he appears very tired.

Edmond Pope

Our organic revenue growth was 2% in the quarter, which was a bit stronger than expected in Fire and Security but weaker in Healthcare, primarily due to the challenges we are facing in our retail business. Electronics continued to grow at the 3% pace we had anticipated.

Ed Breen

It was an OK quarter from the top line perspective, but the results were weaker than expected, largely due to the floor care business.

Eric Bosshard

There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done. It means that the economy is going to get weaker, and that may put pressure on earnings in the second half.

Eric Barden

A weaker dollar, continued geopolitical concerns, weak government data, and higher oil prices have all been factors that have pushed gold higher in the last several days.

Emanuel Balarie

The conventional consensus is these factors will produce a weaker market for farm equipment in 2006. December sales are a reflection of cash flow and tax planning, but do not reflect the outlook for the coming year.

Eli Lustgarten