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Fairchild is making excellent progress in improving the quality of our business through new products and better product mix. We're executing well, demand is strong and I'm very optimistic about our prospects for 2006.

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Documentary is quite good at putting on the clothes of other genres, ... But (we) still want a genre that is true to itself -- it takes a lot of will power to say 'that's enough, let's try something else.

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We should aim to deliver public service content to our audiences in whatever media and on whatever device makes sense for them whether they're at home or on the move.

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The audiences of tomorrow currently get too little of real value from the BBC and the BBC needs to think how it engages them and reflect their lives better.

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You add the cost of digital switchover and targeted help - these are very big commitments.

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I accept the premise that if the BBC remains nothing more than a traditional TV and radio broadcaster then we probably won't deserve or get license-fee funding beyond 2016, ... That is very definitely not our plan.

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the choice of commercial providers (would be) fair and open.

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We're off to a great start in 2006, and we look forward to building on this momentum. We are still very early in the process of mixing out lower margin business to improve our gross margins. Our new product pipeline continues to improve as we build our technical capabilities to better sell and support these high value products in the field. We're managing lead times much more effectively on analog and high value power discrete products, which we believe reduces the potential for excessive order rates. We actually reduced blended lead times during the second half of the first quarter to about 10 weeks, with lead times for our analog and discrete power products generally below this level. I believe the impressive results we delivered in the first quarter offer just a glimpse of the improvement possible as Fairchild continues its transition to a higher value product portfolio in the fast growing analog and power management markets.

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You know if you want to win and want to compete in this competition, this is what you have to do in the finals.

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We have one of the best Web sites in the world, but it's rooted in the first digital wave. We need to reinvent it, fill it with dynamic audiovisual content, personalize it, open it up to user-friendly material.

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My son's (Michael and Peter) play for H-F. But I still help out at Marian Catholic. Just trying to promote the sport.

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We have lost a giant of comedy. Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of greats who shaped British comedy in the twentieth century.

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That's just part of how this generation has been raised. You add a 40,000 price tag for a school like Colgate, and you have high expectations for what you get.

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It's a frightening thing. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't know anything will be resolved and you must prove that you are innocent. You are guilty - everyone treats you as if you have stolen all this money from them.

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The fire had some unusual items that we noticed right away. There were no signs of forced entry, the fire started exterior from the house and there were no normal igniting sources that were in the area.

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I don't have much to do with it, ... Cam just places himself where he wants to go. We put him in the forward line and he was getting the ball all over the ground. He was second ruck to Steven today and they carried the ruck duties fairly well. I'm happy with his form.

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Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of comedy greats who shaped British comedy in the 20th century.

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As a club, I think we've gone from 15th in 2004 to about eighth or something in conversion from set shots.

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There were a lot of things that happened in that sequence of play . . . the spotlight will probably go on Josh because it was his opponent that kicked the winning goal, but there were a lot of things that we can learn from that passage of play.

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We can deliver much more public value when we think across all platforms and consider how audiences can find our best content, content that's more relevant, more useful and more valuable to them.

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They didn't show the replay and, to be honest, you know we are not allowed to talk about those issues.

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But it's not only human rights activists who are concerned. The U.S. military is reluctant to be drawn into a counterinsurgency war, ... They don't think it's possible to say you're going to go down there and help the Colombian military shoot drug traffickers without shooting at the FARC, and that makes them very nervous. It's a rebellion that's been going on for some 40 years, and it's plainly not going to come to an end soon -- the Pentagon fears it's a whirlpool that's going to suck them in.

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The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

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if the public is convinced that the corporation is spending money wisely.

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Risk and reward tend to be symmetrical. If you want to be a high-value company, you have to take more risks.

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