"We are operating better entering 2009, but we have yet to turn the corner," he told Wall Street analysts during a conference call.
Scott Lamb, the company's vice president for investor relations, said that except for a plant in Louisiana that blew up last year, the company's mills are operating better with replacement workers than they did with their regular work force.
But while the Islamic State has a long way to go before it functions as a legitimate state, it appears to be operating better than the Iraqi government in at least one essential way.
Fiscal stimulus plans may help to ease the pain, but it is hard to see how the world's economies can resume decent growth until the private financial system is operating much better than it is now.
In her early remarks, Mayer spoke warmly of the company she helms, stating that the company is now "executing" better, and is operating more strongly than in the past.
United were operating far better now and so was Mkhitaryan.
… There's a subset of charter schools that are not operating better options and need to be closed".
Use of child centres is directly related to the poor quality of, and access to, education: There will be little change in the practice of sending primary and junior students away from their families to live in centres until local schools are operating and become better able to provide a tangible and desired education.
So even as our vice president was wooing Crown Prince Abdullah to visit President Bush's ranch in Crawford, the Saudi police were operating on the philosophy "Better a dead girl than a bareheaded girl".
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