Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Netting about $1300 a week, the Leverett House grill pays its employees $5 an hour. "We lost money for three straight weeks during midterms, but generally we make a profit," Lannon says...
Katz--who supplied all the money to stock the grill without any help from the House Committee--says, "It's hard to tell if I've made a profit. Essentially, I've whittled down two-to three-hundred dollars worth of debt to myself...
Normally, public access channels are run by the cable companies themselves, but Cambridge officials set up the Cambridge Public Access Corporation (CPAC), a non-profit corporation, separate from both the city and the company, to control public access programming...
...woman who has everything she wants except the respect of her newly adult daughter. Born in poverty but blessed with good looks and a raffish appeal, Kitty Warren went into prostitution and then brothel keeping. She proved to have a genius for recruiting talent and earning a steep profit, and grew to love the challenges of being a businesswoman. The role, the best Shaw ever wrote for a woman, centers on the scenes in which the mother tries to explain her life to a daughter who has always been sheltered from it, away at school. It brilliantly balances two themes...
...than negative ones. Says Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department: "It is a very potent boost for the economy." Since energy costs make up about 10% of the Consumer Price Index, smaller oil bills provide the economic elixir of growth without inflation. Many businesses get a huge profit lift from lower energy costs. The airline industry, for example, saves $110 million for every 1 cents drop in jet-fuel prices...