So I am looking for strong fundamentals in a bearish market, because even if the market does fall and my stock does fall, I know it is not going to fall through the floor.

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So for me, I constantly have to be looking down at my feet to make sure I place them some place that they're going to stay because I don't know when they're going to spit off and when I'm going to fall.

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"Whoever the guy is, I plan to fall in line and support him, because he has to better than who they are running against, " he said.

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Like I try to prepare myself because I - you know, when kids are really little and they fall down and they're not quite sure if they're hurt, so they look at you.

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And so one of the things I did, because you have to remember, right after the fall of Saddam Hussein, there was no telephone service at all, no electricity at all, days-long line for gasoline at the pump.

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"Construction starts may have been up last year, but I expect that to fall around 10% this year because of the central government's lowered target for public-housing starts and diminished investment from private-property developers, " said Johnson Hu, a CIMB-GK Securities analyst.

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This is all the more sad to me because my first book was published this past fall and each of the book signings I gave was co-sponsored by a different independent bookstore.

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And I actually think that it's going to fall further, you know, because we think that prices are going to continue to fall, perhaps, all the way through 2010.

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When I asked an insurance broker why that was the case his answer was: "Because they might fall down".

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