Having watched the political standing of the nation's captains of industry drop, however, administration officials have stopped comparing President Bush's management style to that of a chief executive and have harshly criticized some business behavior.
For the first six months of 2002, sales of hip-hop albums were down almost 20percentt from the same period last year, compared with a general industry drop of 13percentt.
Between the late 1980s and the late 1990s the number of jobs in Lane county's lumber industry dropped from 11,500 to 6,800.
Kenneth C. Griffin, who runs one of the biggest and most successful hedge fund firms, has a blunt assessment: "We, as an industry, dropped the ball".
Yahoo's stock has been one of the notable casualties in some weakness in the tech industry, dropping 17% over the course of the year.
Employment in the city's securities industry dropped by about 8,000 jobs from August to January, a decline of about 4percentt.
Its shares collapsed, and the company that for 70 years had been the bellwether of British industry dropped out of the index of leading companies.John Mayo, the dealmaker who advised ICI on the Zeneca deal, also helped wreck GEC.
As the number of men starting out in the industry dropped in this country by 5,000 last year, the number of women taking to agriculture, be it arable, pastoral or dairy, rose by 6,000.
A Wish List for Fixing Wall Street By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Kenneth C. Griffin, who runs one of the biggest and most successful hedge fund firms, has a blunt assessment: "We, as an industry, dropped the ball".
Still, the sister resorts Boyne Mountain and Boyne Highlands in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan may have taken the most revolutionary step in the industry, dropping lift-ticket prices this winter, from $43 to $39.
Page B1 A WORSE TIME IN A BAD MONTH It was a bad, double-digit slowdown for most retailers in January, with the overall retail industry dropping 1.8percentt in a month already known for slow sales.
