Largely Quotes

Wholesalers had been struggling with bulging inventories through the winter and spring... However, plunging sales had largely thwarted their efforts. July's improvement is a welcome respite in this struggle. - Steven Wood

Who knows? I think it depends largely upon what they're able to do overnight. I think it depends largely upon what kind of volume we're going to see tomorrow. - Fred Ketchen

While traders and investors have focused on strong demand growth, sizable additions to supply have largely been ignored. - Thorsten Fischer

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations. - Earl Blumenauer

While the specific product revenues of the Consumer Healthcare business are largely unknown, we note that the PCH [Pfizer Consumer Health] business operates at generally lower margins than the company's pharmaceuticals business. - Anthony Butler

While largely unnoticed by investors, global urbanization is going to be one of the most powerful and important trends. The world's resource base confronts unprecedented demand as a new urban world unfolds. Against this backdrop, the secular bull market in energy and basic materials is just beginning. - Joseph Quinlan

While it is clearly premature to sound the all-clear on inflation, the October consumer prices data are largely reassuring for the Bank of England and boost hopes that inflation has peaked. - Howard Archer

While encouraged by annuity growth, I am disappointed in our gross profit decline. This was largely due to increased costs and had a direct impact on our first-quarter earnings. - Anne Mulcahy

While any decline is encouraging, we remain concerned because too many people continue to act out their anti-Jewish hatred. We have always said that America is different, that the Jewish communities here are fortunate to be largely immune from the kind of anti-Semitic violence experienced by some European Jewish communities. The numbers remain sobering because we know from painful experience that it only takes one incident of anti-Semitism to affect an entire community. - Abraham H. Foxman

While a lot of attention has been paid to data integration and reconciliation, [analytics] has been largely overlooked. While the industry is focusing on ITIL CDMB and data integration, the technology that will make it truly effective and valuable is not yet part of the public forum. - Dennis Drogseth