Word: slump
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...silver lining in the current economic slump is that it has forced some firms to cut back on telemarketing, just as they have on advertising. Jack Keenan, CEO of Tele Resources in Duluth, Minn., has seen a 40% drop in clients' call-volume requests and has had to cut his staff from 225 to 150 since the end of 2002. Unfortunately, though, fewer cold calls may not mean a reduction in sales pitches. Some firms offer more goods and services when you call them, be it for plane tickets, banking or Internet service...
...midst of a global slump, De Beers, which controls some 60% of the world's diamond production, posted 15.7% sales growth last year, to $5 billion. Much of the credit falls to Penny, 40, director of the firm's London-based Diamond Trading Co. and newly appointed executive director of De Beers' board. A Rhodes scholar from South Africa, Penny championed De Beers' supplier-of-choice program, which seeks to drive up diamond sales through better branding...
...four-game set with Yale this weekend, Harvard junior centerfielder Bryan Hale broke out of a season-long slump as quickly as the speedster usually gets from home to first...
According to Walsh, Klimkiewicz had been limited by the knee, which he learned had swollen up after last week’s Princeton series. But for Klimkiewicz, there was a mental component to a slump that found him hitting around .265 for most of the season...
Some booksellers say that the war in Iraq has caused a deeper slump in sales...