Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company is in a better position to profit from this spending surge than Sears, Roebuck. The giant retail chain and catalogue merchant, largest in the U.S., is on a hot streak. After a decade in which profits sagged and the 97-year-old company seemed to have lost its sense of direction, Sears has found its way. During the first nine months of 1983, profits shot up 89%, to $759.5 million, while revenue surged 18%, to $25.1 billion. Around the Sears Tower, the 110-story black steel-and-glass skyscraper in downtown Chicago that still bears the title...
...referendum in question did not ask voters to choose between municipal and private ownership of cable TV, but would have been a step in the state-regulated process of setting up a non-profit city-owned company to allow Cambridge to compete with private companies for the city's cable markets...
...emphasizes that the clinics are open to anyone and that their rates competitive with private, profit making facilities and he points out that if more people able to pay for their care used the clinics it would keep prices down and insure their survival by decreasing the burden on the city. The clinics now operate with a $929,000 budget, with an average cost of $30 per visit...
First of all, one must consider the purpose of the Council. The Council was established as an organization to benefit the undergraduate community, not as a profit-making body. Each student contributes ten dollars toward the Council's budget. Last year, the Council had money left over at the end of its term. Why then are they sponsoring an event designed to make money? The financial success of the event is pretty much assured, guaranteeing a profit for the Undergraduate Council...
...line research company," Barakat explains, "and when this new guy came in the pretty much made it clear to everyone that they were going to go into the computer business," an uncharted territory for BBN. While the computer division did not turn a profit until 1982, its early contracts have been encouraging, yielding a major deal to develop the MCI Mail communications system along with a boom in computer contracts with the Defense Department. Last year, approximately 80 percent of the firm's $85 million sales came through government agreements...