Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry Kissinger's memoirs [March 8] have finally lifted Watergate history from profit-motivated exposé to balanced analysis and perspective. Rarely do we have memoirs that read like a classic novel...
...Japanese have grabbed this business away from traditional exporters like Cargill Inc. and Continental Grain Co. by using the high-volume, low-profit tactics that have made Japanese companies feared and formidable competitors in markets everywhere. Mitsui and Mitsubishi deny that they go further and deliberately incur losses, but U.S. traders insist that the companies in some cases do just that to expand their share of the market for American grain...
...urge Vellucci to speak plainly, feeling confident that when he does the Mayor will side not with the high profit speculators and the Independents, but with the low and moderate income tenants...
...paperback house: "We're paying more attention to what we pay up front and with good reason. We can't afford a lot of money for what might be a big book and then find out it isn't. We have to have a bottom-line profit, and we can no longer afford to keep some of the hard-cover publishing houses going." Shatzkin is less sanguine: "There will definitely be failures among the original trade publishers...
...justice was reduced to watching for the signs of impending worker's revolution. Like those fervent believers who point to the rise of the Common Market and the establishment of Israel and say armageddon approacheth, an era of two of American progressive could simply watch the declining rate of profit and know that the revolution was on its way. No more, the generation that knows the truth about Kampuchea and EI Salvador, Poland and Guatemala, the Soviet Union and South Africa, must start to think anew unless it wants simply to be choosing the better of two evils at every...