Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, moviemakers have to consider moviemaking the big time--profit with honor. And in films, if not in TV, caution breeds entropy. Charges Terry Gilliam, whose Brazil is one of 1985's few demanding films to escape from the studios: "People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. And so audience expectations become more simplistic. Movies have no surprises, no fizz." Right: new Hollywood is new Coke with the cap left...
While none of the airline's 60 creditors want to see the company go under, each is demanding results, and fast. In 1985 Eastern eked out a tiny $6.3 million profit on revenues of $4.8 billion, but during the final three months of the year the carrier lost $67 million. Says Louis Marckesano, an airline- industry expert at the Philadelphia-based investment firm of Janney Montgomery Scott: "The banks are not playing games. They want more reassurance from Eastern, and they want a game plan that shows how the company will make money...
...does not take a great deal of skill, however, to do so in today's - deregulated skies, where profit margins keep growing slimmer and the competition keeps getting tougher. To survive, several airlines have been seeking merger partners. Only last year, after an earlier brush with default, Eastern discussed the possibility of a merger with...
...same customers: parents with the cash and the desire to bring a lagging schoolchild up to speed or to put a bright youngster ahead of his classmates. In the past few years such appeals have been pulling thousands of pupils (including a smattering of adults) into private, for- profit learning chains, which are spreading across the country...
...last year Sylvan was taken over by a child- care conglomerate called Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. for $5.2 million in stock (some $3 million for Fowler). And Encyclopedia Britannica absorbed Reading Game for an undisclosed price. Huntington remains independent, its owner ebullient about the future of teaching for profit. "It's an American response to an academic problem," he says. "You can solve this problem and make money...