As for mortgage insurance (12% of revenue), Chief Executive Fraizer figures he can find growth in overseas markets where home ownership is rising.
Shell chief executive Peter Voser said the figures showed "progress in a difficult industry environment".
"It sounds to me like the chief secretary is not really in command of his figures, " he told the BBC.
The party also fielded, in more than 50 rallies, one of its most controversial figures, Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, where his state government was accused of complicity in an appalling anti-Muslim pogrom two years ago.
That was the warning from one of the biggest figures in global banking - Josef Ackermann, chief executive of the huge Deutsche Bank.
Bank of Scotland chief economist Donald MacRae said the figures indicated a return to moderate growth in the Scottish economy.
Mr Bush says he has the right to engage in such wiretapping as commander-in-chief, and adds that he told leading congressional figures, including Democrats, about the wiretaps.
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With the move, Kohl's could save tens of thousands of dollars a year in electricity costs, figures Jigar Shah, SunEdison founder and chief strategy officer.
Publishers Association chief executive Richard Mollet said the figures proved that publishers had reacted quickly to the changes in the industry and the move towards e-readers.
Other figures from the chief inspector of prisons' annual review of children and young people in custody, found a quarter of young men in custody said they had been bullied or attacked by a fellow inmate and 23% claimed to have been "victimised" by a prison officer.
Mickey Levy, chief economist at Bank of America, argues that what really stands out in the latest GDP figures is the 3.5% annualised growth in personal consumption.
The figures pinpointing the ban's impact on the local economy came from Ted Egan, chief economist in the San Francisco Controller's Office, while the state numbers came from M.
Rothblatt is currently chief executive of biotech United Therapeutics, which she founded, but before that she was one of the central figures in creating Sirius Satellite Radio.
Some analysts saw in such moves the beginnings of a "ministerial" government, with political figures interposed between the chief executive and top civil servants.
Chief executive Marissa Mayer was brought in last July from Google to turn the company round, and the latest financial figures are the first full quarter's under her leadership.
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