Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm's sales growth averaged less than 4% from 1979 to 1984, while the rest of the industry was setting a 10% to 12% pace. Earnings slipped sharply during the quarter ending in June, falling to $77 million from $111 million a year earlier. Says William Leach, an analyst with Wall Street's Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette: "General Foods just seems to have an inability to bring success down to the bottom line. A company like Sara Lee, which has a much weaker market position and fewer glamorous products, is turning out consistently more impressive earnings year after year...
...apparent contradiction between the results and the rhetoric of the conference was ascribed by one Western analyst in Peking to Deng's "practice of not overwinning." While Deng enjoys strong support at the top levels of the party hierarchy, many lower-ranking officials, who have no stake in the reform programs, tend to favor the Chen Yun approach. Thus Chen's speech may have been sanctioned as a sort of minority dissent...
...positions or training programs, location of employment, and required concentrations. Those are kept in a binder in the recruiting room. It may seem obvious, but you should have a basic knowledge of what your job involves. If you're interviewing with an investment banking firm, know what an investment analyst does and how she contributes to the company. You should also know such basic information about a company as: what its products are, where its offices are located, what subsidiaries it has, what its growth has been, and how it views its future prospects...
...female therapists behaved seductively to female patients, and one of them conducted a session while lying in bed in her nightgown. During a Gestalt group-therapy session, a deeply troubled man was goaded into attempting intercourse with a woman, then ordered to stop at the last minute. One analyst dismissed a woman from treatment for refusing to marry the father of her unborn child; another ordered a male patient to refrain from sex for a year as a means of learning self-control...
...continuation of a longtime campaign," he remarked at his press conference, "to build an impression that we may be the villains of the piece and that they're the good guys." State Department officials insist that Soviet rhetoric has not been backed by concrete proposals. Said one top analyst: "We haven't seen anything in their hints that is different from a pure propaganda campaign...