We continue to balance investments in gross margin and improved customer service with operating cost reductions to provide a better shopping experience for our customers.
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Weaker mortgage lending in the first half of 2005 led to annual totals weaker than in 2004, but gross lending and loans approved for house purchase finished the year on an upward trend, after allowing for seasonal factors.
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The comparative weakness of the mortgage market in the first half of last year means that current indicators of activity, i.e. Gross lending and approvals, are much stronger than they were 12 months earlier when the housing market was somewhat subdued, but they are by no means yet approaching the levels of activity seen in 2004.
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The most profitable categories of the business saw a sales decline in the fourth quarter. We saw very significant low-margin category growth, but frankly the dollars were simply not large enough in terms of gross profit dollars to offset the other things that were happening in the business.
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Our focus on these product lines is leading us to sustained profitability, strong gross margins and a solid cash position.
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We have an extra ten years to exploit this property. The Star Wars property is a high gross margin area. It generally requires less advertising because its the movie that drives interest in the merchandise.
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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
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We are pleased with our fourth quarter results which, we believe, again demonstrate the Firm's operating leverage and our ability to improve pricing as demonstrated by another sequential improvement in our flex gross margin and earnings per share. We believe that we can continue to migrate the Firm's flex revenue footprint to higher margin business, and are accelerating our hiring of permanent placement associates as the staffing cycle dynamics remain positive. We believe that our ability to generate cash flows from operations of 2.3 million in the fourth quarter, which are the highest quarterly cash flows from operations in the Firm's history, and our strong balance sheet will enable the Firm to capitalize on opportunities to accelerate our growth.
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Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies,.. And in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.
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This is a gross injustice. Boca Raton is one of the best-run cities in Florida and yet our mayor and council members are the lowest-paid in the region. We should put this issue on the ballot because this is the right thing to do.
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The level of compensation hasn't been changed since 1984. Of the 15 nearest cities, our mayor and council are paid the least. That is a gross injustice.
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We expect the economy to reach 4.5 percent real gross domestic product growth and the rand to revisit levels of R5.80 against the dollar.. By end-2006.
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It's like a car wreck, you can't take your eyes off it. It's totally gross, totally graphic, you know it's going to be bad, but all you can do is watch it go down.
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In this case, this was a very early kind of rupture. It had just broken through. There was no gross contamination of the abdomen.
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I can't say if it's 75 percent Senate, 12 percent House and 12 percent governor's office. We're giving you a gross amount. It's all state government. I'm not sure if real people really care what percentage is Senate versus House.
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These results reflect an excellent fourth quarter and outstanding year for Compaq. We're very pleased with the consistency of our financial progress, especially with the improvements in earnings and the growth of gross margins to 24.4 percent in the fourth quarter.
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Video should add probably another 00 million of gross sales. 'Titanic' could provide the gross domestic product, almost, of a small country, given how profitable it's been.
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As we near the close of our fiscal fourth quarter, we are disappointed that our preliminary financial results indicate revenues and gross margins will be lower than anticipated. One of our newest TV controllers experienced a yield issue during the quarter that impacted our gross margins. Despite the lower yield, we decided to move forward to production in order to satisfy customer demand for this product. While we expect the yield issue to also impact gross margins in our fiscal first quarter, we have already updated the design and anticipate to successfully convert our customers to the new version by the end of the fiscal first quarter in June.
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When that one buyer finds you and instead of saying I would like two of those bags they say they'd like two gross,.. At that point, you have to make a decision about whether or not you are ready to make that step.
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
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This is a very good report, as expected. It's clearly a very strong quarter, and they're executing very well to get gross margins to the high end of their expected range.
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My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income
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During 2005, we were able to keep our operating costs flat and, at the same time, were able to increase our gross margin.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating.. Because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
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