Word: downturn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even as the recent economic downturn hurt fundraising efforts at colleges and universities across the country, private donations soared to record levels at Harvard last year, according to a study of higher education funding...
...employees from point A to point B. At a time when the commercial aviation industry is stumbling, the private charter business is soaring. "Sept. 11 was a catalyst for actual change," says Patrick Margetson-Rushmore, CEO of London Executive Aviation, a private charter operator. "We were experiencing a downturn before then and assumed we'd be down for the year. Now we'll exceed our forecasts...
...University expects the recent economic downturn to cause financial difficulty in coming years because of decreased donations and federal funding, and Huidekoper says that the “next few years are going to be tough on this campus...
...rebate of up to $600 per couple, he billed it as an insurance policy against recession. Critics sniped that no government could possibly hope to time fiscal relief to offset economic stress. Call Bush lucky, but his rebates landed in the only quarter of negative GDP. They softened the downturn and helped pave the way for a buoyant Christmas quarter. Already, though, Bush's tax-cutting agenda is in deep trouble. Just hours after Greenspan hailed the recovery, the House passed a scaled-back economic package that amounts to a Republican retreat on broader tax cuts. The rebates were...
...Witness the carnage after the sharp, unexpected crash on corporate I.T. spending late in 2000: losses convinced IBM to all but abandon in-house PC manufacturing by farming assembly out to subcontractors. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are trying to merge. Dell was hurt by the downturn, too. The company laid off 1,700 workers last year, its first redundancies ever. But it still managed to increase sales by 18.3% in 2001, showing a profit of $2.1 billion...