According to vice president Henri Schmidt, the changes have helped revenues quadruple since 1980, to $12 million last year.

Still, in the last five years, the revenue has more than quadrupled, and company officials said they expect it to rise again, by about 20 percent, this year.

As a consequence of such policies, Libya's oil production declined by half between 1970 and 1974, while revenues from oil exports more than quadrupled.

Largely because of Northrop's role as prime contractor on the B-2 program, the company's revenues have nearly quadrupled to $6 billion since 1980.

"In 10 years, that means their top-line revenues should quadruple," he said.

From 1994 to 1997, revenue quadrupled to $612 million, and the company's stock price has multiplied 28-fold, to yesterday's closing price of $41.625 a share.

In his managerial tenure, the company's revenues have almost quadrupled.

During his tenure, General Dynamics' revenues and earnings quadrupled.

From 1968 through 1980, the earnings and revenue of the Times Mirror Company quadrupled.

Asset Acceptance Capita's revenues quadrupled between 2001 and 2005.