Coupled Quotes

While the number of new Internet users in the US and the total number of online buyers are both growing at single digit rates, online sales are experiencing double-digit increases. Credit goes to baby boomers who are increasing their online spending and a cadre of digitally literate young adults who are replacing older Internet shoppers in the e-commerce marketplace. These demographic forces coupled with the spread of broadband access are changing the way people shop online and how Web merchants market to them. - Jeffrey Grau

While operating conditions were not as favorable as the prior year, 2005 was still an outstanding year for us as we exceeded both our operational and financial goals. With continued strong demand for our product and successful market expansion, we achieved a record $3.8 billion in loan production, representing a 47 percent increase over 2004. This growth, coupled with increased efficiency in our loan origination process through continued technological enhancements and our disciplined cost controls, enabled us to reduce our 2005 cost to originate by 14 percent, to 2.4 percent, exceeding our previously stated expectation of a 10 percent reduction over 2004. - Hugh Miller

While many of the stocks in this group are already down by 50 percent over the past several weeks, we believe that inventory concerns, coupled with telecom service-provider capital-spending concerns, will weigh on the group for the next one to two quarters. We note that the group in aggregate still has the highest valuations in the semiconductor business, even after the recent decline. - Joe Osha

When you are running on a distributed environment that is loosely coupled, you can scale virtually on demand by throwing in more power. - Peter Lee

When we began to think about our clients' interests, we discovered a common passion for motorcycles. Therefore, we created an event that is centered on that common passion. This passion for riding, coupled with the need to learn about the latest models of John Deere equipment has led to our employees, vendors and customers having a fantastic day together. - Dan Moore

When the time came to make plays, they made a flurry. That coupled with some very poor decisions that we made (and) in a matter of minutes the game was gone. - Scott Skiles

Whatever stock market effect we've had probably was felt in the present conditions index, but the overall index remains strong... The boost in optimism, coupled with tax refunds, should continue to fuel spending. - Lynn Franco

What we're seeing in terms of currency movements - and it will probably continue at least over the near-term - is a shift in global monetary policy expectations. There's a gearing-down of expectations for Fed tightening, coupled with increased tightening expectations elsewhere. - Marc Levesque

What we have done is computational modeling-that is, using mathematical models coupled on the computer-to simulate the function of the brain. By observing circuits, we can see the way they behave and are controlled. - Paul Miller