Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emulate the Sloan system-but rarely with comparable success. One reason is that few other companies can match the planning and control system installed at G.M. by Vice President Donaldson Brown just a year before Donner was hired. The Brown system of constant reports-which permits G.M. to forecast for three months in advance every detail of its operations from auto production to profit margins-has for 37 years kept G.M.'s profits moving up at a planned pace in relation to sales. (G.M. showed its last loss-$38.7 million-in 1921.) Only one other major U.S. corporation...
...simply not proceeding in an orderly fashion. The standings turn over every rejuvenated second-division teams the Minnesota Twins are in the back of the pennant race, and the unexpected collapse of the Yankee pitching has kept New York in the League rather than in orbit as everyone forecast...
Projection '62 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Eleven foreign and domestic correspondents forecast world events...
...four centuries since the German banking house of Fugger began to pay an astrologer to predict financial trends, economic forecasting has become so universal a pastime that today's conscientious investor or businessman is hard put to it to know whose voice to heed. One voice that is heeded is that of the National Association of Business Economists, whose membership is drawn from the top economists employed by U.S. private industry. A year ago, the N.A.B.E. produced a forecast of the 1961 business rebound that proved to be dead right. Last week, meeting in Chicago's Edgewater Beach...
...ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT: A 5% to 10% increase in sales was forecast by Chief Statistician A. J. Nesti of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association...