"Find the answers or at least know how to find the answers if it is something that can't be verified now". Partners in his year-old fund judge applications largely based on answers during interviews to what-if questions about a decline in clientele or lack of funding, proof that they have considered not just achievement but how to keep a business going despite common setbacks.
Mr. Block said that OTB did not collect demographic data on customers because bets are anonymous, but that the clientele is typically over 50 and is declining in number, despite OTB's attempts to attract younger customers.
Macro headwinds like declining home values, potentially slowing capital gains and business spending will likely weigh upon a segment of Ruth's clientele base, Kron argued.
One of the most critical problems facing art-house cinemas is what's been deemed a "hair problem" — meaning, an aging clientele that's either gray or bald and whose declining numbers are worrisome to independent exhibition.
Ms. Marino declined to identify the clientele willing to pay up to 700 times the cost of a one-way train ticket from White Plains to Manhattan if there is only one passenger aboard.
She was highly selective in her clientele, accepting only learned and scholarly men as her lovers and declining to proffer her affections for mere financial gain; suitors might spend thousands of taels on her to no avail.
Unlike the others, which shuttered or upgraded to suit a more genteel clientele when dock traffic declined in the 1970s, Montero's kept its character as a seafarers' place after the seafarers had left, later attracting artists, writers and Hollywood location scouts.
As health insurance coverage of residential treatment has declined, the programs have courted an affluent, lustrous clientele, in large part by touting lavish appointments.
One manager from a surgical department declined to have palliative patients among the department's clientele and commented that the department 'did not treat cancer patients'.
Thus, this non-aggression pact required organizations to decline to acquire new customers and to rely on their own established clientele.
But as Palm Springs' fortunes declined, the little motels, too, began to fade away, closing or hanging on by catering to a loyal but shrinking clientele.
