Readers of Packard's 1995 autobiography, The HP Way, or Michael Malone's 2007 book Bill and Dave will find familiar vignettes.
Bookings were up substantially in the fourth quarter and we have a solidly positive book to bill so far in the first quarter.
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As Mr Auletta waited for the hearing to begin, he wondered not only if the court would bring up Judge Jackson's comment in his book that Bill Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself but also comments he made about the appeals court.
It is an angry book because Bill Isaac is by no means pleased with the string of policy blunders (mark-to-market accounting, pro-cyclical regulatory regimes from FASB and the SEC, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, etc.) that led to a global financial meltdown in the fall of 2008.
Book-to-bill in the quarter was 1.33, which the company noted was the highest in two years.
Cypress said Q4 book-to-bill of 0.88, up sequentially in every division for the first time all year.
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And he adds that book-to-bill in the first few weeks of January has been running at about .99.
Still, he concedes there are signs that the semiconductor industry's key inventory measure, the book-to-bill ratio, has bottomed out.
Everything looked pretty rosy in terms of earnings estimates, book-to-bill ratios, etc.
At the end of Q3, our book-to-bill was 0.81, down from 0.87 in Q2, with all divisions and major product lines below unity.
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The book-to-bill ratio for printed circuit boards was 1.02 in June, up from 1.0 in May and 0.97 in April, according to IPC, an industry trade association.
Our book-to-bill ratio, as measured by end customer bookings, was above one and our OEM opening backlog for shipment in the third quarter increased from the prior quarter, indicating continued growth in demand for our products.
Green came to the legal business after a career in banking, during which he wrote a book on the Sarbanes Oxley bill.
Yet that three-tiered structure is one reason why FBR's Kevin Book thinks the next farm bill will not vary too radically from the present one.
But Clement Attlee's Labour government had to use the 1911 Act to get the Bill onto the statute book.
But Home Office sources insisted that the government remained determined to get the bill onto the statute book by 2014.
The death of Ronald Reagan and the popularity of Bill Clinton's book have sparked an unusually intense interest in presidents past.
"It is quite blokey and I don't often get to be with other women when I am working because often they won't book two women on the same bill, " she says.
The commission, formed by Irish Chief Justice Liam Hamilton and the speakers of the Dail and the Senate, Seamus Pattison and Brian Mullooly, signed the documents that officially entered the bill into the statute book.
The government plans to get the bill onto the statute book before the summer recess, giving every school in England the chance to convert to an academy and giving parents new rights to create their own schools outside of local authority control.
The book's portrayal of HP founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard is intriguing, too.
Book doesn't expect a farm bill to make it to reach the floor of either Chamber until at least 2008, a national election year.
The memorial book will eventually be added to the Bill McLaren archives and those signing it will also be invited to make a financial contribution to the fund as part of the public subscription being organised.
In his book, Good Italy Bad Italy, Bill Emmott describes how Italian politicians are still paid salaries three times those of their French counterparts and they grant themselves an array of perks including subsidised air travel.
Lord Owen denies this is a cunning attempt to block the bill - arguing that because the parliamentary year will not end until well after Easter, there is plenty of time to have the debate he wants and then for the bill to reach the statute book.
So we're looking at a bill which goes onto the statute book in the autumn of 2013 at the earliest.
In the book Moneyball, author Michael Lewis details how statistician Bill James showed that people overlooked the information that would reveal which strategies would be most effective in to compete and win in baseball.
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She made her maiden speech in February of the following year and, in 1923, piloted the first ever bill sponsored by a woman onto the statute book.
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