Word: costs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months has begun offering an Art Card on which patrons can charge up to half the price of a painting or sculpture, and take as long as five years to pay (at 15% interest). One California civil servant used the card to buy a Maxfield Parrish original that cost $14,000-equal to his annual salary. At Emory University in Atlanta, students can use credit cards to enroll for any evening course-Spanish, fiction writing, belly dancing. Some churches in the same city let parishioners charge their annual pledges on credit cards...
...upset loss cost the Crimson more than what should have been an easy mark in the win column. A victory would have given Harvard coach Billy Cleary 100 career triumphs and would have garnered the Crimson a share of the Ivy league lead along with Brown and Cornell, after the Big Red's Saturday afternoon loss to the Bruins. While Cleary has plenty of chances left to get to the century mark, Saturday may have been the Crimson's last gasp in the Ivy title chase...
Thin Profits. Volvo's high prices are largely the result of a 40% raise in Swedish labor costs in the past two years. To contain the damage to sales, Volvo has absorbed some of the cost in export markets, rather than pass on the full rise in prices charged to foreign buyers. Result: Volvo's 1976 profits of $136 million were only 3.7% of sales, v. 10% in 1972 and 1973. Profits on export sales to North America and Western Europe were a paper-thin...
Ironically, opening the U.S. plant could have helped. American workers presumably would have been absent less often than Swedes, and the labor cost of Volvos sold in the U.S. would have been reduced. "The advantages of manufacturing in the States are still there," says Volvo Senior Vice President Robert Dethorey, "but first it is a matter of utilizing the capacity we have." So long as the government insists that employees be paid for not working, Volvo's prospects are anything but bright...
...Faculty has operated at a loss for eight of the last ten years. Cost cutting efforts trimmed the deficit from roughly $1.4 million in 1973-74 to $249,000 last year. Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean for finance and administration, said last week he expects the Faculty will break even in the current fiscal year, although there is still a chance there will be some red ink on the charts...