Word: corp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three -Playboy, Penthouse and Oui-alone sell some 10 million copies a month, double the circulation of the entire skin-magazine industry a decade ago. But profits are chancy, competition for readers is getting hotter, and the magazines are becoming ever more erotic. Last week Eastern Newsstand Corp., a distributor with 105 outlets in New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Atlanta, responded to complaints by displaying skin magazines in plain paper wrappers...
...goes back more than 50 years, and has prevailed in times of prosperity as well as depression. Investment money pried loose has too often been channeled into inefficient industries. A recent government example: Labor's plan to pump some $2.3 million per day into the British Leyland Motor Corp., which is currently losing $264 million a year...
...just New York's problem, it's all our problem." Echoed the Chicago Daily News: "No thoughtful person takes delight in watching New York writhe. The health of that metropolis has a direct bearing on the nation's health." A recent survey by the Decision Research Corp. of Wellesley, Mass., found that 51% of Americans felt the Federal Government should help New York if "the city is in danger of going bankrupt." If true, that would be generous, but it seems likely that most Kankakeeans are actually concerned a lot less about New York than about Kankakee...
...large number of big U.S. companies have now admitted making payoffs to foreign officials and political organizations to help win overseas sales. So far, however, none has so stoutly rationalized the practice as the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Last month the nation's No. 2 defense contractor publicly conceded that it has made at least $22 million in such payments. Last week, in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Lockheed Chairman Daniel Haughton adamantly refused to name the recipients of the company's largesse, saying that disclosure would jeopardize present and future foreign-sales prospects. Was under-the-table...
Parkhurst also treats advertisers with truculent disdain. For example, he refuses to accept Ford Motor Co. ads because "they made a crummy truck," and both a Union Oil Co. division and White Motor Corp. have in the past pulled out their advertising after he rapped them. He also has to pay for lawyers to protect himself against an average of some $25 million in pending libel suits (he has won seven and never lost), and to maintain an electric gate at his shabby Hollywood offices to guard against midnight raiders and subpoena servers. Says one staffer: "He could be taking...