Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they enable even inefficient brokerage houses to make money and the most efficient ones to make barrels of it. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a house that specializes in institutional orders, has consistently had a profit margin of 50% before taxes under this system. Individuals can make more money with less work on Wall Street than almost anywhere else in the economy. Some neophyte brokers earn commissions at a $50,000 annual rate within six months after graduating from a training course, and veterans fairly commonly make $100,000. Haack generally advocates a new commission schedule under which efficient firms would...
...Nixon Administration will announce formation of the National Corporation for Housing Partnerships, a Comsat-style combination of Government and private industry. The corporation expects that its activities will add at least 10,000 new houses and apartments a year in the 1970s for families earning $8,000 or less...
...changed and modernized, and he has written two papers on ways to apply computers to do it. "The current system, under which materials are bought piecemeal, maximizes costs instead of profits," he says. "Building design can be programmed into a computer, and the more prefabrication you can accomplish, the less costly the building will be." He is so certain that he can make his company's profits go up that he persuaded the president to pay him, on top of his salary of $12,000, stock bonuses if the firm's annual growth rate exceeds...
...companies earn an average of 11.2% on their invested capital, which is slightly above the norm for all U.S. industry; they also earn 10% on sales, which is about double the figure for other U.S. industry. Oilmen seem reconciled to seeing the allowance cut to 22½% or perhaps less, and the depreciation limited to fixed periods instead of the lifetime of the well...
...interest in the company to 77%. Barreiros was still president-and his brothers Valeriano, Graciliano and Celso were all members of the management group-but his family had only a minority voice. Unmistakably, Chrysler then started running the company through its own efficiency-minded men, who were much less sensitive than Barreiros to the traditional Spanish way of doing business through friends and connections...