Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...created of her, and out of this visionary myopia, this need to fashion a Galatea or a Bride of Frankenstein, come love, lust, violence and art. Simone (Cathy Tyson), a chic London call girl, understands this impulse in men and knows how to indulge it to her profit. Well, it's a living. But to George (Bob Hoskins), assigned by a mob boss to be Simone's chauffeur, it seems a living hell. How can she endure these rough hands and tawdry nightdreams? How can she not respond to his courtly Cockney love? Simone does respond, in the only...
...Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier, lost $103 million. TWA did even worse, dropping $170 million. Long-troubled Pan American, which sold off its Pacific routes to United for some $750 million last year, lost $118 million. Indeed, in the entire U.S., only three sizable airlines showed a first-quarter profit: Southwest, which squeezed $7.1 million into the black; American ($4.2 million); and Aloha ($1.8 million). Says Michael Derchin, an airline expert for the First Boston investment firm: "It's become a Darwinian environment up there...
...carrying a passenger for a mile on traditional airlines averaged only 7.7 cents during the first quarter of 1986, an 11% decrease from 1985. Wall Street analysts predict that as traffic picks up during the peak summer travel season, the industry will enjoy a turnaround and make a profit for 1986 as a whole...
...good reason to want to shed much of the ITT communications network, particularly System 12, a computerized switching board that telephone companies use to route calls. The unit, which cost $1 billion to develop, sold well after it was unveiled in Europe in 1979, but it has turned a profit only in West Germany and Italy. Araskog thought that if he could adapt System 12 to U.S. standards, he could sell it to the regional Bell companies, which were formed after the AT&T breakup in 1984. But ITT was unable to write software that would mesh System 12 with...
...Pretoria will not listen to arguments based on rights, it will listen to arguments based on rands." But no one expects measures against South African trade to be nearly as effective as the banking action. Some businessmen somewhere will always find ways to beat the boycott and make a profit...