Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into fast-forward. After producing some 250,000 SelectaVision sets last year, the company was selling them during the past month at the rate of 400,000 a year. Company executives, though, figured that they would need to produce three or four times that many to make a sufficient profit. Only about 12,000 SelectaVisions remain in stock at RCA's Bloomington, Ind., plant, but wholesalers and dealers have about 150,000 left...
Help is on the way in the form of a new book, Power Lunching: How You Can Profit from More Effective Business Lunch Strategy. Written by E. Melvin Pinsel, 57, and Ligita Dienhart, 39, the book purports to instruct readers on effective business-dining strategy. In the spirit of "you are what you order," the authors divide food into two categories: power and wimp. The executive who wants to seal the deal should stick to power foods. These include London broil, bourbon and Brie cheese. Such foods are easy to eat and macho (the book applies the term to both...
...enormous disparity between manufacturing costs and selling price has led some users to accuse software makers of arbitrarily raising prices. In their defense, program producers contend that they are merely covering their costs of development and distribution, as well as providing profit for themselves and a reasonable markup for retailers. As in any new and fast-growing field, the competition that will force manufacturers to price products more realistically has not yet developed. When it does, the cost of software is likely to fall, perhaps sharply...
Corporate donations have gone up since the temporary moratoriums on taxation for cost and profit were enacted, Scott said...
Restaurants not paying the taxes are "short-changing both the state and customers of money to be used for public purposes, by taking consumer tax payments as profit," a department press release stated...