"There's really no basis for a hotel to come and ask us for lower margins when all the other channels are charging more, " says Jeffery Boyd, 53, who has been chief executive since November 2002.

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"Due to the nature of our business and dynamics in program requirements, Lockheed Martin's workforce may expand and contract at various times throughout the year, " says Jeffery Adams, that company's director of news and information.

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"The economic crisis impacts all of us in different ways, " says Fiona Jeffery, chairman of the World Travel Market.

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As far as the collective American psyche goes, it makes sense that this is a moment of celebration, says Columbia University psychiatrist Dr. Jeffery Lieberman.

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