Cuts said slow in coming, prices at loss-leader levels

摘要

Companies spend a lot of time trying to turn computer screens into crystal balls and figure out what's going to be happening three or four or 10 years down the road. It doesn't matter if the company is in the business of making hamburgers, mowing grass or mining coal, you sleep a little better thinking you've got things figured out. And then, like Colin Powell said, "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."