Distributors tune up in Nashville

HE NATIONAL Building Material Distributors Association closed the 1980s by looking into the 1990s during its best attended convention in more than a decade.

About 975 NBMDA members and guests converged at the Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tn., to get "ln Tune withthe Future," the theme of the 38th annual meeting.

The Oct. 28-31 convention featured 194 exhibit booths and the

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largest number of educational sessions NBMDA has ever offered. In "Getting Started with Bar Coding," consultant Richard Bushnell praised coding, while identifying its biggest hindrance as a lack of uniformity among manufacturers.

Keynote speaker Tommy Lasorda, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, drew parallels between coaching a sports team and a business team. "A leader is someone who stands out in front of his men, but not so far that he can't hear their footsteps," he said.

"Our responsibility is to make these people happy, . glad to come to work," Lasorda added.

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Quick Quotes for 1990

A random sampling of ideas and opinions

"A growth recession is now clearly underway in the U.S. economy."

Resource Information Systems, Inc.

"Without question, the most pressing issue in business today deals with the age old question of ethics."

Alec Beck President

Stripling-Blake Lumber Co.

"Our economic forecast for a 'soft landing' in late 1989 and early 1990 is right on track."

David F. Seiders Chief Economist National

Association of Home Builders

"Mortgage rates could fall to 9-l/40/o by mid 1990." Mortgage Bankers Association

"Our success depends upon delivering superior customer servicel therefore, there is no issue more critical to us than this."

John B. Kiss Vice President, Marketing The

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"The economy looks very soggy We are likely to get several months of very anemic economic indicators and we expect easing of interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board."

Richard Peach Deputy Chief Economist Mortgage Bankers Association

"Home prices will rise in the West at l0% to 200/o instead of 200/o to 30%."

John

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Economist

National Association of Realtors

"single family starts will rise 100/o in 1990 to 1.08 million."

George Christie Chief Economist F.W. Dodge

"The economy, which is about to enter its eighth year of expansion, is likely to continue growing until at least 1991,"

National Association of M anufacturers

"Our industry is gathering itself to introduce dramatically fuller application of computer based communication and control of a variety of functions as it must to provide competitive service in intensely demanding global markets."

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