Shanna operates a lounge in an extremely popular downtown convention hotel. the hotel regularly operates around the 80 percent occupancy mark, and its lounge, luigi’s, is very often filled to capacity. on weeks when business at the hotel is slower, shanna attempts to build local sales by scheduling a variety of popular bands to play on the stage. she must select one band to play on saturday night, six weeks from now, when the hotel is not busy. she has kept records of the costs and sales volume of the last four bands she has booked.

reducing the scale of the market for a new product.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.