Bierman noted that even if hanger costs continue to climb, owners have choices in their responses.
Grandage says that he and Bierman think of the company as a long-term commitment.
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No researcher has ever reported seeing a fish preparing to jump like that, Soares and Bierman said.
Grandage will join forces with James Bierman, whom he formerly worked with at the Donmar, he told The Stage.
Bierman, the former executive director of the Donmar Warehouse, left the theatre company for the Almeida Theatre earlier this year.
Soares and Bierman reported the jumping guppies started from a still position, swam backwards slowly, then changed direction and hurtled into the air.
Those are slim margins for gas station owners to work within, and any unexpected expense could be crippling to their income statement, Bierman said.
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Libby Bierman, Sageworks analystThe improved profitability is impressive, considering modest inflation at the producer level in recent years, as measured by the Producer Price Index.
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Bierman said the construction sector has also made gains in creditworthiness in recent months, based on the average probability of default as calculated by Sageworks.
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And, when these costs are high, that leaves less money to cover overhead expenses and less to pass into retained earnings for the company, Bierman noted.
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Privately held dry cleaners and launderers, like other private companies, saw sales decrease during the recession when consumers cut back on more discretionary expenses, Bierman said.
Bierman said it could be that since business owners fought to keep their businesses alive and profitable during the recession, they may have retained their cost-cutting mentality.
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Bierman said the healthy increase in the average net profit margin shown in the Sageworks data could allow companies to absorb some of the additional labor costs, if necessary.
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Plus, because small investors must follow the action through news headlines and public filings, they typically end up a step behind professional investors, says Harold Bierman, a Cornell University professor.
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To get the new playground off the ground, Mr. Liew and Ms. Lan lobbied Board of Supervisors President David Chiu to push through legislation to allow new construction in Sue Bierman Park.
Construction saw the most improvement, Bierman noted.
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University of Maryland biologist Daphne De Freitas Soares and biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman discovered the guppies' ability while using high-speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from a wild Trinidadian species, Poecilia reticulata, related to the familiar pet-shop fish.
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