Word: profit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Overall, studio profits reflect the general bounty, and nowhere is that more true than at Paramount. The company's earnings for 1986 are expected to exceed $110 million on estimated revenues of over $925 million. That compares handsomely with an anemic $75.1 million profit on revenues of $864 million in 1985. Paramount's television business is also booming, along with "follow- on" sales of movies to cable TV and other outlets. The company's overall prospects have helped Gulf & Western's stock rise from its year low of 47 3/4 to last week's close...
...1960s, while not yet complete, have begun to be accepted as facts of our lives. In the 1980s it is O.K. to be divorced, O.K. to be a single parent, O.K. to be different. Slowly, mysteriously, Americans are learning to live according to inner judgments. We are learning to profit from history: rejecting crusaders and romantic ideologies, widening the middle ground...
...believe that someone was making a profit on the arms sales...
...Well, yeah, sure I assumed somebody was making a profit. We didn't know what the profit was or where it went...
...capitalism faces a devastating problem. If businessmen are motivated simply by the pursuit of profit and are willing to use any means at their disposal, then perhaps the free market ought to be abolished...