Word: fatten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...programs have become more plentiful, the titles have become more specialized. Flight Simulator helps train would-be pilots to land an airplane; Pole Position lets living-room auto racers drive a road course; Stallion keeps the bloodlines of horses straight by tracking their ancestry; Beefup helps breeders fatten their cattle by keeping track of their weight and breeding...
...program, which provides subsidies to farmers for keeping their fields fallow. Analysts estimate that the corn yield will be down by 25%, or $4.5 billion worth. In the short term this may mean lower prices for meat as ranchers rush their herds to slaughter rather than continuing to fatten them. But in the long run it could mean significantly higher prices for both meat and grain...
...subsequent 6% cap on annual raises through mid-1988 and reduction of the total staff from 950 to 910, mostly through attrition. But to return the paper to profitability, Maynard says, he must boost classified advertising, take advantage of the renaissance of Oakland's business district and fatten circulation in the city's affluent white suburbs, which supply 142,000 readers to the cross-bay San Francisco papers, the Chronicle and the Examiner...
...will receive 10% of the receipts for admission tickets and rides plus 5% of sales of everything else. That, says Wall Street Disney Watcher Lee Isgur of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins, might add $25 million to $40 million to Disney's operating profits next year. The income should fatten Disney profits from its U.S. theme parks, adventure and family movies (TRON, Tex) and other activities, which ran to some $200 million last year...
...stellar running back, Chicago's Walter Payton, offered his services to other N.F.L. teams last year, there were no takers. Why would a franchise pay a premium for Payton (and give up two draft choices) when its profits scarcely change, win or lost? In fact, a team may fatten its bottom line by not making the playoffs. All 28 teams split the postseason television money even for the Super Bowl, and not participating saves expenses...