Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to adapt more quickly to changes than the big boys can." Some regional banks are trying to fight off possible takeovers by large institutions by merging with other banks. The goal is to become so large that firms like Citicorp cannot easily swallow them up. Mergers also reduce overhead costs by combining such expensive operations as data processing and advertising...
Last September the Core program made available 2000 copies of the booklet at $5, but sold only 600, said Becky Zaikia-Wilson, Wilcox's staff assistant. She explained that overhead was high because the syllabi were delivered late and had to be photocopied rather than sent to a printer...
Only 1000 copies of the spring semester booklet have been printed, and a $3 a copy, Wilcox said he expects them to sell more briskly. Because it is printed on rag paper, Wilcox explained, overhead was lower, making the booklet "an ephemeral document at best...
Abidjan firm that manufactures jeans, guesses that his company's forced switch to gas-oil generators has increased his overhead...
...gaily colored Air Florida 737 jet from Miami had barely taxied to a halt at the Tegucigalpa airport when a column of trucks loaded with Honduran policemen careered across the runway to head it off. As police surrounded the aircraft, troops slithered down ropes from helicopters hovering overhead and flung themselves on the ground with rifles ready. The cause of their concern: the arrival of 40 clergywomen, the first planeload of 140 American and Canadian nuns and lay workers headed for a four-day prayerful protest against U.S. policy in Central America. The Honduran government barred the other 100 even...