Word: formulas
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Harvard was able to win the series by using a time-tested playoff formula--excellent special teams and clutch goal-tending...
...makeover is a farce. He has an ambitious growth strategy, which he appears determined to stick around to oversee. That's new stuff for Dunlap, 60, a churn-around pro who in the past has followed swift cost cuts with the well-timed sale of his company. The formula worked wonders for shareholders in 1994-95 at Scott Paper, where he cut the head count 35%. The stock tripled. The script was being rewritten at Sunbeam, where the stock has quadrupled...
...roughly the same size as Sunbeam and has problems similar to those Dunlap faced at Sunbeam when he arrived in July 1996. Coleman essentially becomes Dunlap's next turnaround gig. Only he bought it instead of being hired. (Job hunting is such a drag.) If he can work his formula at Coleman, Sunbeam's stock will shoot much higher. With that in mind, Wall Street rolled out the red carpet, pushing Sunbeam shares up 24% in a week. Remember, an acquirer's stock generally goes down at first...
...Boskin headed a Senate commission that concluded that the CPI overstates annual inflation by about a percentage point. That means the low CPI of 1.7% last year might really have been less than 1%--a huge difference. Boskin's startling assertion accelerated the drive to find a new CPI formula while politicians began drooling over the prospect of reallocating billions of dollars freed by reduced CPI-pegged spending...
...formula has been tinkered with in 1995, '96 and '97, refiguring food, housing and medical costs. Those changes shaved .3 of a percentage point off the annual rate. Last year the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking an experimental CPI, for the first time trying to account for rational behavior: substituting chicken for beef, for instance, when beef prices rise. That formula will be incorporated in the official CPI by next year and will trim an additional .2 of a percentage point off the annual rate...