Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fearing that students would resell the computers for a profit, the administration, in conjunction with the Apple Company, said that students would be allowed only to lease the computers for the first year, and that students caught reselling the computers would be liable for disciplinary action...
Ryan, who has seen eight Gillette cases hashed over in B-School classrooms, says the Boston-based conglomerate usually opts to disguise employee names and company figures that may reduce Gillette's competetitive edge in the market. "Sensitive figures, such as profit statistics, will be modified for security reasons," he explains...
Although we do not recognize such inalienable rights of the author, our copyright law is not insensitive to this idea, i.e. we tie copyright protection to the lifetime of the author, not just a time period necessary for cost recovery plus "profit". We recognize that Endgame is a product of Beckett's imagination and that he has some right to keep it as he imagined it. Yes, Beckett is stymieing the creative impulse of the artists at the ART, but he did not ask them to produce Endgame and they would be more stymied if he never wrote the play...
Saturn is part of the complex GM strategy for competing in the small-car market. While American automakers are fairly efficient in building large models, they are less successful in turning out small cars, where the profits are not great. Many auto-industry executives believe that because of higher costs and a foreign-exchange rate that favors Japanese exports to the U.S., it is now almost impossible for an American auto company to build a car in the U.S., sell it for less than $7,000 and make a decent profit. GM imports some subcompact models for sale...
...guerrillas, the partnership with Salvadoran laborers offers more than a windfall profit from economic blackmail. There is no evidence that the Liberation Front charges workers a fee for its bargaining "services," but involving themselves in the wage negotiations adds to the rebels' political weight. Last November the rebels began distributing leaflets in one of their mountainous northern strongholds, Chalatenango department, urging local peasants who travel south for the coffee harvest to band together for negotiating purposes. At about the same time, a full-page advertisement appeared in a newspaper in the capital, San Salvador, putting forth wage and working demands...