Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take on ever increasing urgency. The struggle for discovery, though, will probably be well worth the cost. Says Robert Lucky, executive director of communications sciences at Bell Labs: "There's no telling where this technology is headed." Actually, there is. The alluring glow of optics is pointed straight toward profit and increased productivity...
...Harvard Club bought the tickets at the sameprice and would not be making a profit, saidElizabeth A. Haughey, the club's specialactivities director. She said she had receivedcalls from more than 40 undergraduates aboutobtaining tickets. It is unclear how many ticketshave been sold through the club...
Also last night, City Councilor Alfred E. Velluci proposed an order that would request the City Solicitor to prepare a bill to be submitted to the Massachusetts state legislature which would bar non-profit institutions, like Harvard, from protesting proposed zoning changes in Cambridge...
...airlines have filed for bankruptcy or ceased operation since 1978, as the industry has lurched from occasional feast to occasional famine. The low point for deregulated airlines came in 1982, when the industry suffered an $800 million operating loss. The best unregulated year was 1984, when industry-wide profits hit $2.3 billion. But last year airline earnings dipped 39%, to $1.4 billion, meaning that on average, carriers had profit margins of only 2%. The first half of 1986 has once again been a bloodbath, with losses of $765 million. Says Kahn: "Some diminution of intense price cutting is probably necessary...
...coffee mugs made up with I SAW THE IMAGE written on their flanks and sold out, at $4 a pop. John Broski of Fostoria invested his savings of $1,800 in I SAW THE IMAGE T shirts, and expects to walk away with a tidy $2,000 profit. As for the image itself, Broski says, "I think there's something there. What it is is probably naturally explained. If the Lord were doing something -- that's a big if, O.K.? -- the oxidation, the vapor lights, whatever, the Lord would do it that way, naturally. It would get the people...