That said, quarterly results may take a back seat to guidance, with Starbucks announcing that it will introduce Verismo brewers in China next year.
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It issued enforcement guidance back in 2007 and followed up with a report in 2009 on employer best practices, and a meeting in February at which Joan Williams of the Center for Worklife Law and Lynn Feinberg of the AARP Public Policy Institute (co-authors of the report) both testified.
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Your full-year guidance was back-end loaded before.
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The company, which appointed a new chief executive Monday, also suspended share buybacks and said it will not update guidance for the back half of its fiscal year.
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Which is why the stock pulled quickly back by 6% when spring guidance came in just a bit light on earnings.
Humana raised its guidance for 2011 on the back of strong results.
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However, the implementation guidance for pulling contracted services back into the government that Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn issued in late May of 2009 made the changes sound like something more than a workforce adjustment.
Despite consistently below-projection revenue and sales numbers, the PE firm relied solely on its handpicked CEO and did not consult the founder, CTO, or board of directors for guidance to steer the company back on track.
Schering's guidance had already been cut back dramatically, while Lilly met for the quarter but forecast that 2003 earnings could be flat with 2002, representing the second year in a row of flat growth for the drugmaker.
The explanation for the weak guidance: higher component costs, back-to-school discounts and a mysterious "product transition" will cause Apple earnings to come in lower than expected.
Regrettably, the new guidance repeats an old pattern, going back almost to the founding of the two-MRC standard.
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Comparable store sales increased 15% in Europe and Asia during the holidays, and with currency exchanges, the company still reported a 10% increase in net sales and an 8% increase in same-store sales, prompting the company to raise its guidance to include the unexpected consumer jump back into the luxury market.
He also told Forbes.com that the aviation authority's request was merely "guidance, " and that airlines had some back doors open to them.
It was also interesting to note a growing wave of amateur space enthusiasts who are creating open source satellite and guidance plans and software and even making their own back-yard rockets!
It said if staff were waiting for guidance from a doctor or nurse, they could click back to a previous screen, "as this in essence stops the clock".
The clever thing about Mr Rutan's aircraft is that it can tumble back into the atmosphere and glide down to land without any fancy computerised guidance.
One was a weak January quarter outlook, which implied a back-end loaded fiscal year which, therefore, raises concerns that guidance may need to be lowered again in the future.
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She escaped, and with the guidance of a non-profit in downtown Baltimore , she is getting back on her feet.
Typically, we see guidance for 8 to 9 percent growth in the third quarter because of back-to-school and the holiday build.
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Back in April, when the government shutdown was looming, the administration issued a guidance -- what would happen in the event of a government shutdown.
Back that gain out, and profits were 45 cents a share, a bit above the guidance range of 38-42 cents.
Honeywell's auto turbochargers and industrial materials are back, carrying the upcoming business outlook, we'd guess, in a more positive direction than prior guidance.
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