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Retail Sales Post Strong Rise
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Retail sales grew at their fastest pace in four months in May as warm, sunny weather encouraged consumers to splash out on new clothes and summer food and drink, a survey showed on Tuesday. The British Retail Consortium said the value of...
Tags: Weather, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oukbs, Retail
News items 2008-06-09
AMS Policy Forum: Weather and Highways Policy White Paper - Improving the Safety, Efficiency and Capacity of the Highway System by Improving the Use of Weather Information
The U.S. public, and more specifically its economy, is highly dependent on the national highway system. More than 200 million cars and trucks use the national highway system and critical parts function at or near their maximum capacity much of the time. Weather reduces capacity and significantly impacts efficiency. Weather...
Tags: Weather, Capacity
White papers 2003-09-09
Gauging The Weather
For millennia, people have understood that seasons for tropical storms, blizzards, and other weather events come and go with predictable regularity. What people have not known, until recently, was whether a coming season was likely to be more or less stormy than previous ones. Drawing on correlations between various natural...
Tags: Pricing, Financial Planning, property insurance, reinsurance, insurance, pricing strategy, scientist, income, carrier
White papers 2003-07-01
Do Something About The Weather
Even the best logistics pro cannot change the weather, but if one wants to change, he must plan for it. For some shippers, weather drives customer demand. On the carrier side, a change in the weather may mean rerouting trucks or airplanes. Because of the variety of ways in which...
Tags: Penton Media Inc., carrier, logistics, strategy, benefit
White papers 2003-04-01
How to Get More Done in Less Time, and Free Up More Time for Selling
Most of us would agree that we could sell more if we just had more time, or, realistically, better control of our time. You can’t manage time any more than you can manage the weather. One can only control what one does with that time while on the phone--and off--to...
Tags: eFrog Pond Inc., strategy, phone
White papers 2003-01-01
Toward a Concept of Operations for Aviation Weather Information: Implementation in the Evolving National Airspace System
The capacity of the National Airspace System is being stressed due to the limits of current technologies. Because of this, the FAA and NASA are working to develop new technologies to increase the system's capacity while enhancing safety. Adverse weather has been determined to be a major factor in aircraft...
Tags: FAA, NASA, aircraft, information technology
White papers 2002-12-01
Progress in the Development of Weather Information Systems for the Cockpit
Weather is a causal factor in thirty percent of all aviation accidents. Many of these accidents are due to a lack of weather situation awareness by pilots in flight. Provision of strategic weather information during the en route phase of flight can enhance weather situation awareness and enable avoidance of...
Tags: Strategy, NASA, accident, information system, industry
White papers 2002-07-16
Evolving Weather Risk Market AttractsGrowing Number of Participants
Weather is essentially a new class of risk that is now being introduced to the risk transfer market that's a very interesting and exciting area for growth. There are many, many industries besides energy, whether they're beverage producers, clothing retailers or farmers, who have weather exposure, meaning weather affects the...
Tags: Food & Beverage, Wells Publishing Inc., beverage, industry
White papers 2000-11-13

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Who are you saving them for? Have some fun already
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ever meet someone who saves money, anxiously looking forward to buying a gun, and then never quite consummates a deal for whatever reason? Several months ago I really got to thinking about this when my friend Steve Nielsen was telling me about his rather expensive shotgun....
Articles 2008-08-01
Making the cover
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] When the EBONY editors began thinking about what July means to Black people, fun emerged as an all-time favorite idea. The warm weather really does become our clarion call for being outside enjoying friends and family---or going on our own personal adventures. Got that, but who...
Articles 2008-07-01
Barely there: sexy suits make way for sultry summer skin
Now that you've gotten your body ready for warm weather fun and the beach, update your summer look with the season's hottest swimwear options. If you are daring and have the body to pull it off, consider one of these skin-baring designs offered by some of the top swimwear designers....
Articles 2008-07-01
Executive Director's Report
It is a raw, rainy February, turning to March day as I sit writing this piece. Even though we have had some really warm weather and many of the early spring flowers have already poked their heads out, today feels like winter. It is the kind of day that would...
Articles 2008-06-30
The best party on the planet
From Jay-Z to Neil Diamond and Amy Winehouse - this year's Glastonbury promises to be more eclectic than ever. Andy Gill looks forward to a vintage weekend Traditionally, only farmers and sailors regard the weather forecast with any more than merely passing interest. But this week, a...
Articles 2008-06-26
More rain adding to flood woes
WINFIELD, Mo. -- Crews laboring to strengthen fortifications along the swollen Mississippi tackled new dirt slides and seepages on a fragile earthen levee Wednesday as forecasters said more heavy rain could cause a second round of big crests. As much as 8 inches of rain fell on...
Articles 2008-06-26
EquFit Rolls Out ShouldersBack Lite™ For Summer
New PowerMesh[TM] Posture Helper Offers Warm Weather Alternative to Maintain Good Posture Year Round NEW YORK -- With the official first week of summer underway, EquiFit, inc. creator of innovative health, fitness and SpaCare products to enhance daily living, introduced ShouldersBack Lite, to provide lightweight posture support for...
Articles 2008-06-25
Oklahoma-based Sonic posts 16% decline in net income for 3rd quarter
Cold and wet weather in March was cited for a 16-percent decline in net income for Sonic Corp. for the quarter that ended May 31. The Oklahoma City-based company on Tuesday reported net income of $17.2 million, or 28 cents per diluted share, for the third quarter...
Articles 2008-06-25
Weather
TODAY Warm and sunny, with fairly strong west and south-westerly winds. Max temp 21C...
Articles 2008-06-25
Weather
TODAY Warm and sunny, with fairly strong west and south-westerly winds. Max temp 21C...
Articles 2008-06-25
Stars, astronaut to light up Bryce Canyon astronomy fest
The darkest skies, the best telescopes and a real NASA astronaut are part of the eighth annual Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival today through Saturday. Given expected weather conditions and a keynote speech by Hubble space telescope repairman Story Musgrave, the amateur astronomers from the Salt Lake Astronomical...
Articles 2008-06-25
Dry lightning sparks 800 wildfires
SAN FRANCISCO -- In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across northern California -- a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands. ...
Articles 2008-06-25
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