"The primary concern with Apple these days is its high average selling prices and whether it can deal with the deteriorating macroeconomic environment," Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu wrote in a note arguing that Apple' shares still merited a "Buy" rating and a $120 price target.
Richard Evans and Scott Hinds of Sector & Sovereign Research, LLC, have written a note arguing that large spin-offs, leaving only a "core Pfizer," would result in little more than a declining pharma company with some cash cows facing imminent patent expiry.
In his Perspective, White raises a cautionary note, arguing that some fossils may be so distorted that assignment to a new species is premature.
Ms. Allred struck a similar note, arguing that the actress's look probably didn't garner any sympathy from the judge.
Channel 4 subsequently sent out a "clarification" note arguing that Icstis could not know for certain how many You Say We Pay callers had been affected beyond the two-and-a-half-week investigation period.
Cleve Jones, founder of the Names Project, which produced the AIDS quilt, called Shilts a hero whose writings are "without question the most important works of literature affecting gay people". But Jones also sounded a somber note, arguing that despite the efforts of Shilts and other prominent gays "who believed they could single-handedly stop the epidemic," AIDS rages on.
The report concludes on an optimistic note, arguing, based on international experience, that cities can be turned around in 10 years.
The EU's climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete struck an upbeat note, arguing that the report showed that Europe had "learned the lessons" from the Fukushima disaster, with its first ever examination of the costs of the whole nuclear lifecycle, based on data provided by EU states.
He concluded on an optimistic note, arguing that notwithstanding the country's enormous challenges, the American people's collective wealth, ingenuity and access to technological advances provide the makings of greatness if properly harnessed.
"Furthermore, the existence of the program reinforces a false impression that international trade is a negative factor for the economy," Sallie James, a trade policy analyst at Cato, wrote in a recent policy note arguing against continued financing.
Even Noonan concludes his sprawling chronicle of millennia of graft on an improbably hopeful note, arguing that, just as slavery was once widely accepted and is now reviled, bribery may one day "become obsolete".
