10 Quotes by James Ragan

Jason Mashak’s SALTY AS A LIP is grounded in a voice patiently bridging the “steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The poems are at once syllogistic, hard-edged, satirical, reflective, and finally as playful as love notes. The true joy of this book is that we are deliciously engaged in a "pantomime of pleasure" which the language and imagery generously evoke.

And sometimes, and only in spring,a dove from the river's soft vale of lilieswill fly as close to you as trust,and a calm in the great reds of autumnwill, as often as you need, lie downbeside you, raising a brow you've knownabove the eyes of the only womanyou will ever have a need to dream or touch.

Last year Best Buy had comparable sales in the high single digits in the second-half. Investors are probably looking for something new that could help pad sales going forward.

Over time, the competition will become even more intense. There will be a time when the margins are impacted a bit.

This will likely be the first of many in the tech sector to warn.

The recent feeling has been maybe the business was worsening. I think the comment that the PC business may have stabilized gives us a little more confidence that the year's going to improve from here.

The services business is a relatively new segment for the company, and I think it can help sales.

The services business is a higher profit margin area for the company. With Best Buy's success in the home theater business, I think they have rightfully determined that providing installation services and other types of work is a good investment.

The services business is a higher profit margin area for the company, ... With Best Buy's success in the home theater business, I think they have rightfully determined that providing installation services and other types of work is a good investment.