To the company, the ice was no more than profit figures in a computer file.
The company's sales and profit figures are nevertheless well above those reported a year earlier.
Even better, that per-share profit figure was up 35 percent from 1998.
This would presumably include net profit figures for the last few years.
There are no sales or profit figures to judge the bureaucrats' work.
The company is privately held and as such does not report exact revenue or profit figures.
The full results of this strategy should show through in the 1989 profit figures.
It was the lowest profit figure since 1986, the service said in its annual report on farm income.
The company said profit figures for 1990 would be released at the end of February.
In election years, the programs take on importance even beyond their profit figures.