The new lows have caused various forecasters to revise their industry projections.
Ticket sales for Broadway shows, still down a quarter from industry projections made earlier this year, are rising.
(Industry projections estimate that it will reach seventy per cent by 2030).
But industry projections suggest that building the pipeline would yield about 6,000 jobs directly, and another 7,000 jobs indirectly.
In her first tourism industry projections, Ms. Nicholas said that research had shown two disturbing and somewhat unexpected trends.
Nationally, as many as 400,000 households may use Russian as their primary language, according to the most optimistic industry projections.
Some casino operators say the difference will be substantial, though the Christiansen group did not further lower its industry projections after the PayPal announcement.
And total employment in the garment and textiles business is expected to drop just 100,000 or so, to 1.3m, by 2006, according to industry projections.
The amount loaded on such cards last year totaled nearly $77 billion, and that figure is expected to more than double by 2015, according to industry projections.
Based on industry projections, the state expects to receive applications to drill 1,600 to 2,500 wells per year over an estimated 30 years in the Marcellus Shale.
