Byline: Chris Burritt Cox News Service
Office park developer Ira M. Koger could give lessons in artful dodging.
Profits at Jacksonville, Fla.-based Koger Properties Inc. were off 65 percent last year. But the chairman's letter to shareholders in the annual report largely ignored that. The company "is poised and ready for the next decade," Koger wrote in an upbeat letter.
Some chief executives would like to forget 1990, the year the nation's long economic expansion came to a screeching halt. And they want shareholders to look to the future.
"Companies are trying to put a good face on things," said Sid Cato, who publishes a newsletter in …
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