Quotes about Significantly

There is no longer a shadow of doubt that the U.S. economy is downshifting rapidly; the only question is how deep the slowdown goes, ... We do not expect to see recession in 2001, but we certainly expect to see significantly slower growth with continued moderating inflation.

Sherry Cooper

We have generally not tried to forecast fuel price changes. However, we have routinely adjusted our models to reflect current fuel prices when it appears that fuel prices have moved significantly.

Bob Mcadoo

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

Graham Colditz

People only need to walk up to 12 miles per week or for about 125 to 200 minutes per week to improve their heart health. Our data suggest that if you walk briskly for 12 miles per week you will significantly increase your cardiovascular fitness levels compared to baseline. If you increase either your mileage or intensity, by going up an incline or jogging, you will achieve even greater gains.

Brian D. Duscha

In two losses, we've significantly fouled above our average. We can't afford to put [Penn] at the line.

Bill Holden

The correction of these imbalances and associated inflation pressures will require a slowdown in housing, credit growth and domestic spending, ... We also expect a significantly lower exchange rate.

Alan Bollard

As far as a financial clean-up operation, this is going to be the biggest one we've undertaken. Even though it's significantly larger in scale, though, it's nothing we haven't done with our previous acquisitions.

Hamish Brewer

Today's main focus is industrial production data. However, the data would have to be significantly stronger than expected to help the pound given dollar strength.

David Mann

If it's already (significantly) damaged, though, you're looking at a major project of several thousand dollars.

Mark Rice

Given our strong market position and leadership in high-performance Internet solutions, we continue to expect to grow significantly faster than the  market, with anticipated growth in revenue and earnings per share from operations in the 30 to 35 percent range.

John Roth

The Dow has significantly outperformed the Nasdaq over the last six weeks, as well as the last few sessions, so a little pullback today (Tuesday) is no surprise.

Brian Belski

Nextel's first-quarter global subscriber growth significantly exceeded expectations.

Tim Donahue

With 2001 revenue growth rates now expected to be in a range of 9 to 18 percent and earnings per share growth expected to be negative 12 to 33 percent, we believe Yahoo!'s price-earnings multiple will contract until the company is able to demonstrate significantly higher growth rates.

Mark Rowen

Arnold is not moving substantively very far at all, but he is dramatically changing his emphasis. Almost every policy proposal that's come out of the Governor's Office over the last week or two is not significantly different from things he's talked about in the past. But he's making a much greater effort to emphasize a more moderate and conciliatory approach.

Dan Schnur

ZANU-PF leaders seemed to sanction the use of violence and intimidation against political opponents and contributed significantly to the climate of fear so evident during the election campaign.

Pierre Schori

Although the participants in this group came to the table with significantly different perspectives, they engaged in high-level, productive discussions, the results of which will be extremely helpful to Congress as it considers changes to the Endangered Species Act.

Peter Adler

For AM stations, purchasing digital antennas would significantly change the way they broadcast. It would double the radio bandwidth.

Rick Sewell

The bottom line is that this deal would allow India to significantly increase its nuclear weapons arsenal and provides precious little safeguarding. This is a nonproliferation nothing-burger, and Congress will see it as that if they look carefully.

Daryl Kimball

The rain kind of put a hold on what we did. We had so much rain and a lot of salt washed off the road. But overall, everything's been very good. We did have some ice on a few bridges but that's primarily it. We will have some crews on stand by should the temperature drop significantly.

Jonas Smelcer

In and of itself, the proposal is a fairly interesting one, since the volume of our extraction and all of our production indicators depend fairly significantly on where average temperatures are headed. But the details are going to depend on what kind of product is ultimately offered.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We are not going to install much here in a five-week period. We can lean in one direction or another for what is already in, but in a five-week season, which is essentially what we are looking at, you are not going to significantly change anything and hope that they can function. Our practice time is limited.

Dick Jauron

The mother is significantly more injured than that. It could turn into a murder case.

Phil Sorensen

The continued rise of our three-month average since October 2005 still shows strength in the market and, significantly, this discouraged the MPC from cutting interest rates in February.

Greg Fuzesi

It's a challenge, because we typically have one week of practice before Christmas and then one week before we get into our games. The kids improved significantly throughout the season. It's always a challenge for us because there are so many other things to do in Steamboat.

Gary Lyons

Tax-preparation time can be significantly reduced if you develop a system for organizing your records and receipts. Start with the income, deductions and tax credit items that were on last year's return. Use last year's tax return as your guide in preparing this year's return.

Gloria Wajciechowski

Second-quarter sales results were significantly impacted by the greater- than-expected slowdown in the global personal computer market.

David Orton

We're going to have to see economic data that suggests capital spending is on the rise and corporate confidence is rising before we can move up significantly. We need to see concrete results.

Peter Coolidge

People who were buying into the stocks on the broad run of premium rises have been slightly disappointed by the renewal season. The U.S. catastrophe-hit areas have risen significantly, whereas other areas haven't risen by much or have been flat.

Neil Manser

He said. ''It's significantly more difficult to make a sitcom that has broad sociological touch points. The same dynamic plays out on the big screen. You can have a constituency for 'Monster-in-Law' and 'Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,' but never the two shall meet.

John Rash

Our media strategy was twofold: target both the college & minor league baseball fan through strategic baseball partnerships with Rawlings, Easton etc; as well, we invested significantly behind online media to target the baseball gamer and baseball fan.

Brian Coleman

We failed quite significantly. Will what we've seen over the last few weeks continue to be the case? It could unless we prepare. People tend to forget lessons learned. Governments tend to forget.

Havidan Rodriguez

This is significantly slower than the recovery from (Hurricane) Ivan, ... The easy stuff has been brought back. ... Now the tough stuff is ahead of us.

Jamal Qureshi

The mobile TV market is heating up, with both trials and deployments accelerating over the next 12 to 18 months. The support of key industry players in promoting the advantages of the DVB-H standard will significantly aid mobile TV deployment efforts in North America.

David Linsalata

We have seed units out [of Montecito], and the performance looks pretty good, but we decided we needed time to do more testing to hit significantly high quality for this mission critical product.

William E. Giles

Currently the world capability is somewhere less than 500 million doses of vaccine with, you know, close to 6 billion people in the world. In addition, the dose that's required to induce an immune response with this particular vaccine is a significantly higher dose than the dose that you use to protect against the standard run-of-the-mill seasonal flu.

Anthony S. Fauci

Council tax bills are growing significantly faster than inflation.

Martin Ellis

We are excited to partner with Alaska and Horizon to offer our customers significantly expanded travel opportunities in the western United States. With only one overlapping route but a common approach to delivering the best service to our customers, an alliance between Continental and Alaska/Horizon is a perfect fit.

Gordon Bethune

Health care executives who have adopted automated processes reported significantly higher levels of patient satisfaction resulting from improved coordination of benefits between the hospitals and the insurance carriers.

Paula Fryland

Contrary to the prevailing gold industry trend, our cost profile is expected to decline significantly in the year ahead, while our gold production is projected to increase by more than 50 per cent over the same period.

Kevin Mcarthur

Northwest must significantly lower its costs to compete with other carriers. We had developed a plan ... outside of Chapter 11 and have been implementing that plan.

Doug Steenland

This is significantly less for equipment than earlier reports had suggested, which may reflect Congressional concern that the supplemental was being inappropriately used to by-pass the standard procedures required for acquiring hardware.

Robert Stallard

Moreover, we found that among people who had never had skin cancer, those who regularly used aspirin had significantly lower numbers of sunspots.

David Whiteman

Significantly less than an hour.

Ken Campbell

The number of individual investors or shareholders who trade using the Internet has increased significantly.

Taizo Nishimuro

CRM Magazine is proud to present the 2005 CRM Leader Awards to the companies and individuals who are driving innovation and positive ROI in their customer relationship management strategies. Congratulations to Oracle. Their hard work this past year has helped organizations streamline many of their business processes and significantly improve their customer relationship efforts.

David Myron

I think its just a case of all of the lifestyle amenities that continue to be built in that area, the very positive perception of the Peters School district and the significantly lower taxes in Washington County versus Allegheny County.

Jeff Burd

We are looking at taking a master plan point of view down to reality. We think we can reduce that $17 million significantly.

Mike Workman

I am particularly pleased that we have significantly closed the pay gap between our hardworking educators and their colleagues in the suburbs.

Randi Weingarten

We intend to lead the way in the development of interactive services. Significantly, our next-generation TV service will be offered nationwide and not restricted to metropolitan areas, and customers will not be required to commit to a monthly subscription.

Dan Marks

Container terminals in Hong Kong and Shenzhen are significantly more crowded than U.S. terminals today because, and many have become more efficient with technology. That innovation is spreading to other ports.

Lani Fritts

Their reproductive potential is quite low and because of that the time it takes to increase their numbers significantly is a long time, likely to be much more than 10 years.

Barry Bruce

Schwartz is too smart to mock about with a process that is heading in a good direction. I can't imagine that Schwartz' agenda involves changing anything significantly at Sun.

Michael Dortch

We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely to plant corn rootworm corn.

Corinne Alexander

Unwittingly, there are numerous ways that parents contribute to sibling rivalry on a daily basis. A parent can reduce his or her stress level significantly by learning how to handle sibling relations better.

Toni Schutta

The results of the latest Gudrun appraisal well have significantly improved the overall potential for a commercial development.

Philip Behrman

Seniors use health services at a significantly greater rate than the rest of the population, so they will be disproportionately affected by a shortage.

Larry Matheis

If ICE First can lessen that number significantly, it has accomplished one of its primary goals - making people feel more secure and safe by knowing that medical personnel have the information they need to do their jobs more effectively.

Keith Buckley

The work we have done significantly improves United's ability to compete with the best U.S. airlines.

Jake Brace

We're looking good as far as having a good shot to go to state. We're returning in good shape. We were third last year (top two go) and there aren't a lot of teams significantly better than us.

Kevin Lisk

It was in line with our expectations which simply isn't good enough. You really have to beat estimates significantly to impress this market.

Leigh Gardner

The good news is that intensively controlling glucose significantly reduces heart disease as well as damage to the eyes, nerves, and kidneys in people with type-1 diabetes.

David Nathan

We get good value out of software because we do due diligence first, but services tend to be significantly more expensive than we expect. Integration of applications is a significant strategic direction that is inhibited by cost.

Larry Reed

In counseling patients who are considering gastric bypass surgery, this study will help us to identify those patients who can reasonably expect the long-lasting health benefits from significantly reduced blood pressure.

Madelyn Fernstrom

We have to work hard to help them. Their budgets were significantly impacted.

Vicky Kaaz

The sessions at this year's conference focus tightly on how a business - any business, regardless of industry - can significantly benefit from deploying self-service kiosks, and the strategies needed to succeed. Players from all sides of the business will have the opportunity to discuss new and emerging self-service trends and how they can apply to their business.

Lawrence Dvorchik

Programming fees have significantly outpaced the average increase of a DirecTV customer's bill.

Robert Mercer

Consumer confidence in March dropped significantly in all categories because consumers were worried that political uncertainties would continue and would negatively affect economic growth.

Thanavat Phonvichai

I don't think that we here in Washington should escalate our expectations that her parameters would be significantly bigger than Schroeder's.

Jackson Janes

Peter is prepared to play for significantly less than his comparables.

Rich Winter

Going forward, I'm a lot more comfortable with things like telecom operators, because I think the forecasts in that area have come down significantly, whereas in other areas like some of the cyclical sectors, their forecasts probably need to be cut.

Alia Baig

Removing the temporary signals along Mercury Boulevard has been a priority for VDOT and our contractor. We expect to see congestion significantly reduced on Mercury once we take this signal out of service.

Tom Druhot

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

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

William S. Cohen

Production has been significantly down since late last year. At this point, we are projecting only about 35 to 36 million tons this year.

Chris Carroll

We safely delivered a very thorough cleanup significantly under budget and ahead of schedule, saving the U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars.

John Corsi

This is a welcome and commendable move by Coronation and we certainly hope that there are medium-term plans to raise this allocation significantly above the proposed 10% as we believe there is room to do more.

Sello Moloko

History of psychiatric conditions prior to service appears to place veterans at a significantly increased risk of CMI. This should not be taken as an indication that CMI is all in the veteran's head: the condition has physical manifestations that are very real, including objectively defined conditions such as metabolic syndrome.

Dr. Melvin Blanchard

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

Cindy Hockenberry

Initial discussions with customers would indicate that the exploration and production spending environment is likely to remain strong and probably significantly strengthen in 2006.

Andrew Gould

Although compensation and other costs associated with the IPO significantly reduced earnings for November and December 2005, we believe our access to new capital leaves us poised for growth in 2006.

Frank Spencer

Make no mistake, that formula (which significantly discounts the revenue streams upon which the residual is based) is clearly not applicable in this case.

Patric M. Verrone

This is a business that scales with volume and with revenue slowing significantly, it gets more difficult to actually reach scale.

Sara Farley

Overall, it's a good plan. But I would like to see significantly lower density.

Henry Leger

It's significantly more complex than that.

Tom Adams

We're pretty much right on the money with those. What we have experienced in the last few years is our employee benefits have gone up pretty significantly.

Dan Adams

It's the reality of San Diego. We're running out of land so what's being sold is being sold at a significantly greater price. As a result of that, we're selling less (of the single-family homes).

Russ Valone

We expect to significantly increase the pace of our building there in the future.

Bill Wertz

The prospect of rising interest rates in the major economies -- Europe, the United States and Japan -- has significantly damaged sentiment in the commodities market.

Tatsuo Kageyama

One of the four key components of our business strategy focuses on distribution. This relationship forms a strong foundation for our distribution network. The direct access this provides us to China's most highly regarded hospitals will significantly facilitate the expansion of our distribution network to additional facilities throughout the PRC.

Michael Chermak

Certainly, one thing that has to be considered is that while this place is a great area to live, the cost of living is significantly higher than the state average. And traffic is clearly becoming an issue as well.

Tom Hudson

We now have a new snapshot of the Chinese economy. This is not slightly bigger, it's a significantly bigger economy.

Hong Liang

Linux has quickly become one of the most popular operating systems for embedded applications. With our Diamond Standard 232L processor core, we enable designers to develop new systems with significantly reduced power requirements -- essential for handheld mobile applications.

Steve Roddy

Things have improved significantly in almost every dimension.

Robert Mann

Our total February comparable-store sales results were significantly impacted by the major snowstorm that swept across much of the country in the middle of the month.

Arnold Zetcher

[Tenneco said its outlook for 1999 remains positive.] Retail trends indicate that sales of Tenneco products are increasing and beginning to open up inventory channels, ... The original equipment business continues to grow significantly as we introduce more of our parts on more platforms amid a good outlook for vehicle production in North America and Europe and recovery in Asia.

Dana Mead

When you go up against a team that's significantly better than you, you try to stick one in there, here or there, and take advantage of it. It just didn't work for us.

Todd Purvis

Some people believe we are on the brink of being able to extend human lifespan significantly, because we've got most of the technologies we need to do it. People are going to do things they didn't get round to in their working lives. Current institutions are really not equipped at the moment to deal with such long lives.

Shripad Tuljapurkar

Many companies I've worked with find it much too easy to be less selective in their list pulls because it's so cheap. A longer-term approach to this could increase relevance and improve results fairly significantly.

Jeanniey Mullen

The low quiescent current of the LM4673 significantly reduces the drain on the power budget of portable devices when compared with existing Class D audio amplifiers.

Gary Adrig

That is significantly higher than most people expect when they think of obesity surgery. Patients are at higher risk for having bad things happen after surgery because of their advanced age or other conditions.

David R. Flum