Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep the support of influential Representatives for a sweeping overhaul of the tax code. Some of the deliberate obfuscation may clear up, however; the Senate last week piously passed a nonbinding resolution asking that the conference committee report the reason for each transition rule adopted, exactly who will profit and by how much--information that is still lacking on many of the Senate's own transition rules. If the conference committee complies, the unprecedented publicity might just make such blatant favors a bit harder to enact...
...once, a politician was guilty of understatement. Today Greater Orlando, with Walt Disney World as its golden profit center, is one of the nation's fastest-growing areas in population, revenue and new-tech industry. The people who live and work in Orlando are there for the same reasons as those who visit: because of its proximity to an all-ages fun-time wonderworld. Here is a metropolis whose success has been erected on the American family's itch for entertainment. Not since Southern California sprang up around the burgeoning Hollywood film colony has a region owed its riches...
...Says Whitney: "The light bulb came on." But an unprecedented degree of automation would be required to pull it off. Reason: a representative contactor that sold for $20 in the U.S. sold for just $8 in the highly competitive markets of West Germany and Australia. To make a profit at the lower price, Allen-Bradley had to get costs down. By using automated equipment, the company could produce contactors for 60% less than it could by relying on a manual assembly line. "Labor costs," says Whitney "obviously had to be a nonissue...
...Harvard M.B.A., Shrontz will need all his financial skills to guide Boeing in the new era of $10 billion airplanes. To reduce the company's dependence on the volatile commercial-jet market, he intends to continue increasing business with the military and to lead Boeing into the high-profit fields of aerospace electronics and computer systems. He insists, however, that "what we know best is commercial aircraft, and we will stick with...
Sullivan argues that homelessness is still a hot issue in the city. In Central Square, local residents this spring defeated a proposal to convert an abandoned church building into a 20-bed shelter, while in the western section of Cambridge, neighbors are currently trying to prevent a non-profit group from establishing a home for mental patients in the area...