American Airlines buys a used jet only when "we need it quickly," said Dan Garton, managing director of financial analysis.
"All this was taken as a very good signal," said Francisco Blanco, director of analysis at Arka, a brokerage firm here.
His father is the director of economic analysis at the State Department in Washington.
He is the director of media planning and analysis for the Book-of-the-Month Club in New York.
"There is just no way of knowing what the windfall will be," said Leonard Lowell, the board's director of economic analysis.
In 1977, he moved to Minneapolis to join Pillsbury, soon becoming director of analysis in its restaurant and foods group in 1978.
He was instantly reassured by Brett H. Mandel, the director of financial and policy analysis for the controller.
"It's a rare reference book in the area," said James D. Werner, the director of strategic planning and analysis at the department's environmental management program.
She is a director of financial analysis at Brooks Brothers in New York, the men's clothing chain.
Kenneth Spence, director of technical analysis for Salomon Brothers, said, "We finally had profit taking."
