Sustained Quotes

While the overall composition of growth was good, the headline number was perhaps not sufficiently strong to drive a sustained rally in the yen just yet. - Ashley Davies

While price-cutting has sustained the [sales rate] at the expense of margins, eventually either the [automakers'] capacity to support the market will diminish, and/or consumer demand will contract on its own, as it has in other cycles. - John Casesa

While improving consumer confidence probably suggests downside protection against a slump in spending, it does not suggest we will see spending take off. We still need a sustained improvement in the jobs market, including a significant decrease in unemployment with a solid increase in real wages. - Oscar Gonzalez

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. - Dee Dee Myers

Whether top-down or bottoms-up, the facts today point but in one direction: that of sustained, significantly above-trend growth at least through the end of 2000, with virtual certainty of vigorous growth through 2001 and even the likelihood for continued expansion though 2002 as well. - Rick Whittington

Whether it's this month or the next handful of months, we see the combination of sustained productivity gains, profit growth and healthy increases in product demand leading businesses to want to rehire. - Mickey Levy

Whether it's a crisis or not depends on how long these high prices are sustained. - James Thurber

When you look at other companies who have undergone situations like this, this pattern is not atypical. We are not watching the stock price every minute. We are building value for the longer term to get us back on the path of sustained growth. - David Barnes