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Some critics have chided Panasonic for not focusing more on environmentally friendlier rechargeable batteries. The company makes those too, but the U.S. remains a disposable society. In 2005 86% of U.S. households bought batteries at least once. Moreover, the market for disposables is forecast to grow 5% annually through 2009, to $5.2 billion, according to Joe Iorillo, an analyst at the Freedonia Group. "Price and convenience have a lot to do with the growth of the primary battery market," Iorillo says. "A lot of people don't want the hassle of recharging batteries...
...Atlantic Hurricane Season formally begins on June 1, which means it's time for NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to issue its annual forecast. It's not promising: the next six months should be "very active" - which translates to a prediction of 13-15 tropical storms significant enough to be named. Eight to 10 of them should become full-fledged hurricanes, and four to six of these should be major hurricanes...
...plan “quite strong,” and Gary King, a member of the FAS resources committee, wrote in an e-mail this week that “preliminary estimates” suggested “the budget situation will be a good deal better than originally forecast.”Nancy L. Maull, the executive dean of the Faculty, took a more sobering view in an interview last week. She said she was “not panicked” about fundraising but that “we ought to take a more conservative assumption just...
...Hand Wringers. There it was-long forecast in rumor and speculation, but now clearly defined. What was mankind to think or say about it? The first and loudest reactions were not necessarily the wisest-nor were they typical...
...stock boom. Others aren't so bearish, but concede that higher rates may at least temper equities' recent giddy gains. Citigroup last month lowered its expectations for global stock returns for the next 12 months to a range of 4% to 8%?not bad, but down from its previous forecast...