Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Boston Community Development Corporation (SBCDC), a non-profit housing group, is using the mayor's unpopular housing proposal to encourge his home base constituency to vote for Tierney, who is from that area...
Still suffering from last week's nosedive, the Crimson will try to finish its season with a profit (above .500) by beating Yale in the final game of its '87 campaign Wednesday afternoon in New Haven...
...their jobs, their families and their security. Businessmen feared that queasy consumers might stop spending as freely as they have been in recent years. Workers feared that a market collapse could usher in a recession that would cost them jobs or bonuses or take a bite out of their profit sharing or pensions. Those nearing retirement were concerned about the effect on pension funds and on investments that they will soon have to rely on for income. "It scares me to death," admitted a Miami homemaker, "because the market regulates everything...
Millions of Americans were concerned about what the market decline could do to their profit-sharing, pension and retirement plans. Some people have their Individual Retirement Accounts, for example, heavily invested in the stock market. Of the $1.4 trillion held by the nation's pension funds, roughly half was in stocks before last week. Retirees who are already collecting pension payments under defined-benefit plans are in no danger because of federal pension-insurance guarantees. Nonetheless, most pension funds have taken a beating over the past three months. A firm that finds its pension plan underfunded might have...
...business schools. Science whiz kids; computer hotshots; music, art and writing students -- all have worked with professors to create marketable projects. In B-school classrooms, however, the issues of money and purpose may be irresolvably muddied by the institution's bedrock function of providing an education pointed toward profit. Dean John Rosenblum of the University of Virginia's business school notes that, like others, his school routinely participates in corporate-sponsored contests with financial rewards for smart students. Thus he sees nothing inherently wrong in a classroom offer...