At Sony Ericsson, earnings plummeted 61percentto to 32 million euros ($41.02 million).
When the financial crisis hit, G.E. Capital's earnings plummeted, and the division's dependence on borrowed money jeopardized the company as a whole.
Cisco's stock dropped 70percentt in the last fiscal year and earnings plummeted as demand dried up for the company's switches and other products.
The impact was most apparent for Sohu.com, where third-quarter earnings plummeted to $2.7 million from the $7.5 million in the second quarter.
Capital One said Thursday that its earnings plummeted roughly 40 percent in the fourth quarter, as the bank was saddled with mounting expenses, some tied to its efforts gearing up for the takeovers.
The loss, eventually, of Savicevic, and others much sooner, was sadly inevitable; Yugoslav players left the league in droves as their earnings plummeted and the country was consumed by conflict.
The always tieless Mr. Tsipras, a civil engineer from a prosperous family, deftly exploited anger against the austerity measures imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund on the Greek people, who have seen their earnings plummet and unemployment rise to 22 percent.
When defaults on the loans soared in 1962, GD's earnings plummeted.
Manpower shareholders were shocked, as was the board, when second- quarter earnings plummeted and sent Manpower's stock down 29%, to $28 per share, in a single day.
AT&T Wireless pretax, preinterest earnings plummeted last year to a mere $3 million from 1997s $424 million (after stripping out onetime gains and losses).
