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“The expectation is that if you’re at work, then your machine is on and you’re producing. Because jobs are rarely independent – what I do is almost always connected to what someone did before me and what someone will do after me – if I’m not moving along at the same pace as the rest of the organization, then I become the bottleneck.”

- Dr. Jim Cashman
John R. Miller Professor of Management, discussing the nation’s
business culture and the difficulties of returning to work after a
vacation.

- The Tuscaloosa News, July 24, 2005

“These are small countries, with fewer than five million people each. It opens up some markets but probably not much for consumer goods.”

- Dr. John Hill
Professor of International Business and John R. Miller Professor of Management,
discussing the impact of the approval of the Central America Free Trade
Agreement.

- The Birmingham News, July 29, 2005

“There are two reasons why a home doesn’t sell: if it is overpriced or it has a defect.”

- Dr. Leonard Zumpano
Executive director of the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center,
commenting on why a home might not sell.

- WSJ.com RealEstate Journal, July 22, 2005

“This is a positive story, but we could aspire to do even better. We have a lot of room to improve and we should be promoting black entrepreneurship.”

- Annette Watters
Director of the Alabama Data Center at the University of Alabama, commenting
on U.S. Census Data and shows an increasing number of minority
owned businesses in Alabama.

- Associated Press, August 2. 2005

“It may take a year or two to correct things in a credit file. It’s a very laborious process.”

- Dr. Robert McLeod
Professor of finance, talking about the law giving consumers free access to
their credit reports, implemented June 1 for Alabama and 10 other Southern
states.

- The Associated Press, June 30, 2005.

“One after another. It really is sort of a parade.”

- Dr. Todd DeZoort
Associate Professor of Accounting, commenting on the number of finance
executives blaming HealthSouth founder and CEO Richard Scrushy during
Scrushy’s trial in Birmingham on fraud charges, on which he was found
innocent.

- The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2005

“The lessons from history, the character studies of people under adverse circumstances and how they respond, looking at the people who helped build this country.”

- Dean Barry Mason
discussing why history books are his choice for summer reading.

- The Tuscaloosa News, June 19, 2005.