Word: profit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seven Card Stud or Texas Hold'em. My first few visits were far from pretty; not just a slow bleed of cash, more like an agonizing, gushing laceration. Soon I got the hang of things, the hand signals, the lingo, and before long I was turning a sizable profit. The first night that I returned home with a crisp Ben Franklin in my wallet, I knew that I was a casino man, a high roller...
Business Bytes Profit-taking continues to dog the Dow. Friday market wraps in the FORTUNE Business Report. Real-time quotes! From Money.com. Or check the indexes...
Business Bytes The Dow clears 8300--just barely--as profit-taking slows the bulls to a 20-point gain on Wednesday. Market wrap in the FORTUNE Business Report. Real-time quotes! From Money.com. Or check the indexes...
...couldn't crack the story, but when it surfaced elsewhere, Bunton offered Goldberg big money for the tapes. "We made it clear that a million dollars wasn't out of the question." She turned him down, he says, demonstrating that some alleged conspirators are in it for fun, not profit...
After steadily losing altitude, not to mention money--$13 billion between 1990 and 1994--the airline industry has been getting whole and then some. Last year the airlines posted a record $5.2 billion profit, up from $3.9 billion in 1996, and industry watchers expect earnings to climb to $5.4 billion this year. Passenger loads, averaging 70%, are at their highest in five decades. Alas, profits seem to be inversely proportional to passenger comfort. How else can you explain jumbo jets equipped with the smallest of seats...