Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which could be great news for shareholders. What Chrysler and its employees stand to gain is another question. Since 1990 the company has made a tremendous turnaround, streamlining its design and manufacturing process to become the most profitable U.S. automaker. It also shed nonessential businesses like Gulfstream corporate aircraft, acquired in the 1980s under Iacocca. For 1994, Chrysler reported a record profit of $3.7 billion on revenues of $52 billion. Dodge Ram pickup trucks, Cirrus sedans and the Jeep Grand Cherokee were established hits, and promising new products like the Neon had come on market. Toyota engineers even went...
...wealthiest of citizens, but it can be the deciding factor for middle class and lower income students, who may be just as smart as any Harvard student but simply cannot afford $28,000 a year. Given this, student loans, by enabling many more students to attend college to gain the skills needed in today's job market, increase the nation's economic competitiveness. Thomas Jefferson said a democracy cannot remain a democracy if its voting citizens aren't educated. Thus, 200 years ago public schooling was initiated. Fifty years ago, to survive economically, all someone needed was a high school...
...part of the survey that I wrote was about people who are voluntarily downshifting making voluntary changes in their lifestyle in order to gain more time, more control over their time, less stress, more balance," Schor said. "People aren't doing it because they're rejecting consume goods...
...difficult for me to escape the impression that on the part of some, the primary motivation was political and not ethical," Simons said. "But on the whole, I think that council members were under the impression that Josh had used his name to gain media attention and had perhaps misrepresented the council...
...their original image, to be sending a come and get 'em' message to the high school across the street, to be violating all common-sensical health information of the time and to be bucking what would seem to be the basic spirit of the region--all for meager commercial gain...