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...world of aging boomers, both companies see vigorous opportunity. Says Allergan vice president Bob Rhatigan: "Our product [will get] more brand exposure." For the $920 million Elizabeth Arden, which two weeks ago cut its 2006 fiscal earnings forecast because of depressed consumer spending in Europe, Prevage could help it break through the cluttered $7 billion antiaging skin-care market--and give its sagging profits a lift...
...like the fares, but frequent flyers might balk if they can't rack up miles. Eos CEO David Spurlock is convinced that his airline's quality of service will keep luring the high-paying customers. "We're betting that product quality, not price, will drive the market," he says. Forecast ahead: unclear...
...Bashman, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the Bush administration’s military recruitment policy is indeed constitutional, predicted that at least seven justices would vote to uphold the Solomon Amendment. In a phone interview with The Crimson this week, he stood by that forecast. “I don’t think it’s going to be that close of a vote,” Bashman said...
...near future, prediction and decision markets are likely to extend their reach. At the University of Iowa, which created the Iowa Electronic Markets, researchers are developing a prediction market designed to forecast flu outbreaks, and their counterparts at the University of Miami have organized the Hurricane Futures Market, where you can place bets on where the spit will hit the fan. Corporations so far have tended to focus on relatively low-value projects like predicting the next quarter's sales. Google, for example, has been conducting an internal market to predict project-completion and product-launch dates. But given...
...FORECAST: A BLACK SPELL OF WEATHER Al Roker in a windbreaker is no longer the height of meteorological comedy. Funnyman LEWIS BLACK is upping the ante, as the Daily Show correspondent becomes the first celebrity to deliver the forecast on the Weather Channel this week. "I'll just be doing what I do best, yelling and screaming about something no one has any control over," says Black, who appears on the cable network's Evening Edition. Black notes that David Letterman started as a weatherman in Indiana. "Both jobs," he says, "are about making palatable the fact that the next...