After winning a special election in November 1992, Mr. Schundler, a former Wall Street broker and analyst, won a full term the following spring by promising a huge tax cut based on a bold, but complex idea.
The former center, also a TNT analyst, won four titles (and three finals most valuable player awards) and has the highest field goal percentage of any retired player (the Knicks' Tyson Chandler is currently ahead of him), because he poured in his shots from a much shorter distance than Kerr.
But in 1999, Bernstein's 18 analysts won only 12 of 429 places in the magazine's survey, half as many as five years earlier.
These rankings are based on the number of individual awards employee analysts won for picking stocks or estimating earnings, either for their respective industries or as one of the top 10 analysts overall.
We can't answer that question, but we can offer up individuals likely to make the right calls in this tricky environment: the defense and aerospace analysts winning awards in our annual analyst survey, published this week on Forbes.com.
One hundred sixty-six analysts won the distinction of being among the top three stock pickers in their respective industries, and 177 analysts came out as industry winners for their 2005 earnings forecasts.
We based these rankings on the number of individual Blue Chip awards employee analysts won, as tabulated by Zacks Investment Research in Chicago, for both picking stocks and estimating earnings in their respective industries.
In this year's Forbes.com/StarMine rankings,162 analysts won the distinction of being among the top three stock pickers in their respective industries and 178 analysts came out as one of the three winners in their respective industries at estimating 2006 profits.
Last spring, Mr. Ember won $205,370 in arbitration against Citibank, accusing it of publishing tainted research by Jack Grubman, then an analyst, to win banking business.
According to Greg Rigamer, an election analyst, Mr. Landrieu won 70 percent of the white vote, 63 percent of the black vote and all but one of the city's 366 precincts.
