Word: inking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Motors asked him to take over the management of a money-losing subsidiary, Eastern Air Lines. Red ink was hardly unusual in the aviation business in those days; no airline, in fact, had ever operated in the black. Within a year the tightfisted Rickenbacker made Eastern profitable, and in 1938 he raised $3.5 million and took control of the line. Every year from 1935 to 1960 Eastern turned a profit under Rickenbacker's management, thereby disproving the prevailing theory that airlines inevitably needed federal subsidies. Rickenbacker worked hard as a salesman for Eastern and for commercial aviation...
...guys on the team have made it, from the word go, very easy to fit right in and feel like one of the team members," Clyde said, noting that he has encountered no resentment from his cronies for his generous dolings of ink...
Japan is one of the few countries where red ink on international ledgers brings smiles; for years the nation has run positively embarrassing surpluses that have drawn angry criticism from its trading partners. Now, both embarrassment and anger are fading. For the first time in years, Japan is running a significant deficit in its balance of payments, and its lopsided trade surplus with the U.S. - which has sorely strained relations between the two countries - is diminishing. Says William D. Eberle, the demanding chief U.S. trade negotiator with Japan: "The trade imbalance ap pears to have peaked and is beginning...
...newspaper. Guterman has jazzed up the operation with everything from rock concerts to waitresses on roller skates, and his approach so far has worked. The company, whose annual sales in 1972 totaled $16.9 million, last week reported a first-quarter operating profit of $73,970, its first black-ink figure in five years...
...thinks, as an approximate parallel, of the flat, densely woven brush-work in late Monet. Because Arikha uses undiluted black ink on untinted white paper, the shifts of tone depend entirely on the pressure of the brush. But his sense of gradation, from deep velvety blacks through grays to un touched white, rarely falters...