Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry as a whole reaped record profits of $2.9 billion during 1988, a mark that most experts predict will be exceeded this year. The majority of the healthy airlines have put a renewed focus on improving service and employee morale. Says Alan Muncaster, a Northwest vice president: "We've been through a cultural change. There's a new philosophy stressing candor and cooperation...
Walk for Hunger spokesperson Denise Goros said walkers recorded a record $3.5 million in pledges, which topped last year's effort by 35 percent. While Goros couldn't predict how much of the pledged money the organization would actually receive, she said they usually get 80 to 90 percent from sponsors...
...links, is booming. Some 23 million golfers last year teed off at 13,626 courses in the U.S. -- up 30% from 1985. They spent $15.6 billion on equipment, clothes, fees, lessons and resort travel, with the average duffer shelling out $675 each year. Industry analysts predict that annual sales will double by the end of the next decade. The sport supports no fewer than four major magazines: Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, Golf World and the phenomenally successful Golf Illustrated, whose circulation has increased from 35,000 to 400,000 since 1985. "Golf," says Jay Mottola, executive director of the Metropolitan...
...Americans now spend $15 billion on the sport, and analysts predict revenues will double by the end of the '90s. -- Hoffmann-La Roche splits the world's priciest stock...
Some Wall Street experts predict painful new layoffs at many U.S. firms. "What the industry needs is a good housecleaning," says Lipper Analytical's Long, who argues that brokerages would need to dismiss 12,000 to 17,000 more employees to keep profits from sinking further. Other analysts expect a steady decline in the number of investment firms. Since the crash, membership on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen from 392 companies to 365, a decline of nearly 7%. The dropouts have either closed their doors or merged with stronger firms...