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...orders were reported in January, according to the monthly survey of 250 industrial companies by the National Association of Purchasing Management. There was also good news from the National Federation of Independent Business: it said that the hiring plans of small firms are at a three-year peak. As Charles Lee, an economist at Chicago's Northern Trust bank, cautiously notes: "The beginning signs of a turnaround are quite favorable...
...lifts feeding Ruthie's Run, Aspen's best-known trail. In the past year the landmark Red Onion saloon has closed, along with several other restaurants. Five lodges, including the 170-unit Continental Inn, are in the midst of foreclosure. Retail sales growth has slumped from the peak years of the 1970s, when profits grew at an annual rate of more than 15%. Owners of chic boutiques and eateries gripe that business is significantly down from last season. The "Silver Queen," as residents fondly refer to their town, even looks a bit bedraggled. Compared with accommodations in Vail...
Stormy meetings of the oil ministers last May and again in December failed to resolve the problems of quota cheating and price discounting. Pressure on the Saudis reached a peak last month. Their four main oil-company customers-Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil of California-threatened to turn to other suppliers if the Saudis did not lower their price. At conferences in London and Geneva, Yamani huddled with top executives from the four firms, who brought confidential figures to show the oil minister how much they were losing by staying with Saudi crude...
...sales of about 15%, but they are more optimistic than their counterparts at Ford or Chrysler. Officials there look for a more modest increase of 10%, to sales of about 6.3 million autos. That is paltry by past standards. In 1978, the industry's most recent peak, 9.3 million U.S.-made cars were sold. Says Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins, regarded as one of the best among Wall Street's 20 or so auto analysts: "By historical standards it's still bad. But it's better than what the industry's been through...
...possible that the quarry, the more than 100 million people who ordinarily hover in front of the screen during prime time in this peak viewing month, will swim way from this costly bait? "hat they may be lured instead by Dallas or Magnum, P.I. on CBS, or Hill Street Blues on NBC? That they may (dire thought) turn to cable or flip on a video game? Or just decide to read Jane Austen? Of course it is. The bottom of the rating charts is Uttered with such failed mini-series as King, The French Atlantic Affair, MacArthur and Beggarman Thief...