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
Given the current outlook for industry volumes and cost challenges we are taking a more cautious position on our fiscal 2006 earnings. We now expect that earnings per share from continuing operations will be flat to slightly down compared with $1.79 from continuing operations reported in fiscal 2005.
David Rayburn
Our players have really just worked and worked and worked. Tonight it paid off. We couldn't be more excited for them, because they earned this honor. American International is just a phenomenal team. To come out on top just speaks volumes of what our players have done and how much time and energy they have put in.
Dawn Plitzuweit
It will be challenging for Toshiba to maintain its market share with new entrants, but overall unit growth for these two categories of (hard drives) over the next few years will provide Toshiba with an opportunity to grow its volumes even as competitors enter its space.
John Rydning
Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.
David Pottruck
When you've got a nation fighting a war and ... the one place in the mainstream media that seems to be doing the most about the wounded of that war is a comic strip, I think that speaks volumes.
Robert Thompson
They both did very well at that level of competition. The opportunity they made for themselves -- earning a trip to states, swimming with the very best -- speaks volumes about their dedication and commitment to the sport.
Randy Pollick
The volumes are really low. The market is falling and it is likely to continue dipping this way because there are no flows. We are pegged to Nasdaq again.
Tomas Taterka
The resources are large enough to generate significant volumes of power, ... There could one day be plants supplying more than 1,000 megawatts of power if the market allowed it, which is theoretically a good chunk of the 1,200 megawatts required to power South Australia.
Peter Reid
A lot of people are on holiday. Volumes aren't going to be tremendously high.
Bernie Myszkowski
Major vendors are using different types and amounts of fuel to power batteries of different sizes, so it will not be easy for them to deliver the volumes and scale necessary to drive down pricing.
Sara Bradford
Market volumes fell off slightly from what was a very active January.
Thomas Joyce
The guy's worked for about half the attorneys general in the country on this or related issues. That speaks volumes.
Whitney Watson
What's happening now is that the market remains trading at very thin volumes and that can affect prices, even when just a handful of shares are traded. The decision of any fund to pull out from certain stock hits the price.
Carlos Samano
We're off to a great start in fiscal 1999, with trading volumes and account growth during the first quarter turning out to be stronger than we expected.
Joe Ricketts
There are very obvious features we've observed that indicate in the last 20 years the climate has been changing. Just looking at the changes in the glaciers in 20 years, the glaciers on the coastlines have been reduced in volumes.
Scott Ishman
They may not have the pricing power that other companies have and the margins are under pressure even though the volumes are quite all right. I am much happier with the software side of things, which seem in a stronger position to benefit from the investment cycle.
Rolf Elgeti
The good volumes suggest this could carry on a bit longer.
John Hatherly
I have 10 to 15 volumes of names just connected to (my immediate family). I got so carried away with this, I (researched) my cousins' (families).
Bonnie Brothers
It has had an impact on us, but we haven't had any layoffs. We have reduced our volumes, prices have fallen and we are pursuing a variety of (trade) actions at the highest levels of the administration.
Bette Kovach
We showed a lot of composure and maturity, and for Morrison to make two great defensive plays after that and then hit that crucial two-run double to put us ahead, speaks volumes about how he is trying to grow as a player.
Ritch Price
Volumes are very thin, and now we've finally got the 10-year above 5 percent for the first time in four years.
Scott Gewirtz
We're still seeing some good volumes in selected shares and there's definitely a big contingent of foreign buying in our market.
Greg Potter
By nearly a 3-to-1 margin Americans overwhelmingly support the USF and Congress' continued commitment to keep all Americans connected. This support speaks volumes for the positive things that the USF program has done and all that it can continue to do to keep Americans connected.
Gene Johnson
About a quarter of the guys couldn't do all of them. It's a world- class event, so it's tough that the course was so hard. I felt really bad for the girls who didn't compete. It speaks volumes to have some of the best females not even compete.
Miah Wheeler
It speaks volumes as to the guy he is in terms of persevering. Coming (into the NFL) as a nice-looking, graceful tight end, and then being shifted to offensive guard -- and even tackle -- that speaks to his character and dedication.
Stump Mitchell
The concern is, with the extension of that program, a lot of the vendors that are designing and scoring these tests are dealing with volumes of tests that they have not experienced before, as the testing program in essence doubles this spring across the country. It's a high-stakes test, and accuracy is so important.
John Curtin
That speaks volumes as to how highly Mr. Geoffrion is thought of amongst his golf buddies.
Jiggs Mcdonald
I believe we need a fresh start in the Pentagon. We need a leader who understands teamwork, a leader who knows how to build teams, a leader that does it without intimidation. You know, it speaks volumes that guys like me are speaking out.
John Batiste
Grain shipments are beginning to bounce back to levels reflective of the high volumes produced in 2004 and 2005. The Canadian Wheat Board's (CWB) recent take-up of grain offered for sale by farmers and the steady delivery of non-CWB grains and oilseeds despite current commodity prices are reasons for increasing optimism about grain shipments over the balance of the fiscal year.
Brian Hayward
Increased transaction volumes continued to drive non-interest income growth. Price increases contributed moderately as they were kept well below the inflation rate. The growth in transaction volumes emanated from the increased activities of existing customers and growth in the retail customer base from 6.9 million in March 2005 to 7,6 million in December 2005.
Steve Booysen
We have observed totally unexpected and abnormal increases in trading volumes and it is extremely regrettable that we had to take such action.
Taizo Nishimuro
I think we're in for another week of low volumes and directionless trade. Investors will continue to act cautiously until specifics of the package become clear.
Norihiro Fujito
He was just a different guy, a remarkable person. He just had bigger shoulders than anyone else. You could always rely on him. He never once asked, 'Why me?' He never once complained. Even on the day we had the surgery, he was crying, because he was more worried about me than him. He regretted having the surgery more than me. That says volumes about what kind of guy he was.
Steve Quidor
While we are encouraged by the improvement in second-quarter pricing and volumes, steadily increasing imports continue to adversely impact our business. After a brief period of improvement, we are seeing both our order book and prices soften due to surging imports and increasing evidence that the growth in the domestic economy is slowing.
Thomas Usher
It's kind of a wait and see. We have cloud bursts now and then and you'll see volumes of water increase.
Rodney Haraga
Increasing demand for robust data communications applications -- especially mobile email and instant messaging -- will play a role, particularly as 3G speeds improve the appeal of mobile data services. With increasing sales volumes, prices are falling fast, while the choice of models on offer is growing rapidly (39 percent more models were available in 2005 than in 2004).
Philip Solis
When [the NYSE] goes automated, expect all volumes to pick up substantially. It takes longer to pick up a phone than it does to process an order electronically. Less friction means more trades.
Rich Repetto
The fourth quarter has proven to be extremely challenging as a result of lower volumes, depressed metal prices, and overall weak downstream markets.
Alain Belda
We always thought this was going to be slow to build. It's going to take time and we didn't expect the volumes to be strong in the early months.
Adam Robinson
The Villages Relay for Life is one of the bigger relays. It speaks volumes of The Villages residents and their passion of banding together and giving back to something that helps so many others. I'm truly amazed by the residents and their giving hearts.
Emmy Slaughter
You've got to give them credit. They're showing better levels of profitability on lower volumes.
Eli Lustgarten
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond And Jules De Goncourt
This is a smart approach to managing rail capacity at a time of substantial growth in Canada's trade volumes with Pacific Rim countries. It will enhance the fluidity and capacity of both railroads in Vancouver and deliver better service to our port and terminal partners, while ensuring healthy rail competition between CN and CPR is maintained at the Port of Vancouver.
Fred Harris
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