Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...businessmen the outlook is less rosy; for investors it's rather scary. Profits will be squeezed by a combination of lower exports to Asia and rising wage costs. Chris Varvares, president of Macroeconomic Advisers, an economic forecasting and consulting firm in St. Louis, Mo., foresees an outright decline of almost 4% in after-tax corporate earnings this year, measuring fourth quarter against fourth quarter, and an infinitesimal 0.1 % increase...
...other ill winds, from the ongoing trial in Italy of Patrizia Gucci (charged with murdering her ex-spouse Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the company's founder) to worries about the fallout from the Asian financial crisis. Last September, when De Sole announced that profits growth for 1997 would be lower than expected, Gucci stock plummeted almost 20% in one day. Sure enough, the company announced last week that this year's first-quarter net profit had dropped 10% from last year, from $48 million to $43.1 million. On top of this, the Prada purchase has highlighted Gucci's lack...
...easy money, but it sure is a great story. Kinder tells it in fascinating, exhaustive detail, including the following information: as part of the process of securing rights to a wreck, marine law requires that you file a lawsuit. Against whom--Neptune? Close; you sue the wreck itself. Just lower a lawyer in the submersible's claw, and res gestae, the loot is yours...
Even if your blood pressure is only bordering on the high side, you should work to lower it. A study released last week suggests that the risk of heart attack and stroke is substantially reduced when you lower your diastolic pressure (the lower number) to 83, from the currently recommended level...
Unlike most deans of Harvard schools, Bloom wasneither a professor at Harvard nor a dean lower onthe pecking order before...