“The levee systems are very wet, they're somewhat weakened, and any type of storm surge would cause flooding both in our parish and in other parishes. So we're not taking any chances,”
Ray Nagin
“We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I cannot speculate about it because we don't know why.”
Lixion Avila
“The central bank wanted the peso to weaken, so if it is weakening, one of their incentives to cut rates is no longer there.”
Bertrand Delgado
“In addition, vehicle demand in Indonesia has weakened recently due to the adverse impact of surging gasoline prices, which is a further reason for the downgrade in our sales plan.”
Takeshi Suzuki
“The system weakened as it hit Slidell (La.). It really didn't do much to Mississippi.”
Tim Destri
“We believe both PSG [H-P's personal-systems group] and ESS [enterprise storage and servers] benefited from a surge in market adoption of AMD processors in mainstream consumer desktops and notebooks, as well as blade servers.”
Shaw Wu
“The levee system is still in a weakened condition,”
