Prepay customers helped Sprint Nextel lose fewer subscribers, but the slimmer sales that come along with non-contract phone users pressured the wireless provider's bottom line.
While the recession has taken a heavy toll on the luxury retailer, Tiffany said many of its stores reported either slimmer sales declines or modest growth.
Last week Sprint said it narrowed fourth-quarter subscriber losses on strength in its prepay customers, but the slimmer sales that come along with noncontract phone users pressured the wireless provider's bottom line.
DuPont's agriculture and nutrition division was the only segment to suffer an operating loss in the third quarter, with $181 million in red ink compared with last year's loss of $113 million, despite a slim increase in sales to $1.3 billion as greater research and development spending outweighted increasing sales penetration in Latin American seed markets.
There is no alcohol at "Here Lies Love," at the Public Theater, which sets the life of Imelda Marcos to music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, but cocktail sales and service might enter the mix if the show moves into a new space in a few months — perhaps a club or warehouse.
Despite the slim difference in sales outlook, investors yanked Adobe's shares down 12.7%, or $4.17, to $28.77 in after-hours trading.
Detroit has vowed to change before, slimming down when sales slumped or pouring resources into vehicle quality to catch up to foreign competitors.
Slimming World's sales fell by 12.6% on the year and 13.5% on the period with a total figure of 228,517 copies.
But, had Helzberg not gone out of his comfort zone to talk with Buffet, the chances are slim that the sale would have ever taken place.
Stephen J. Girsky, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, said he was concerned that Detroit was reaching a wall in an incentive war that had led to big sales but slim profits.
