Word: profit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their communities. Hamilton seemed to be carrying the argument, until Harvard professor Michael Sandel happened to notice whose portrait hung on the dimly lit wall of the Blue Room and whose marble memorial cast a moonlike glow across the Ellipse. Yes, Sandel said, Hamilton's influence endures in the profit-driven society that Hamilton helped shape. But it is Jefferson to whom the country built a monument. Clinton sat at the end of the table, silent but listening hard...
STEVE JOBS Apple posts a profit. Maybe the better product isn't rotten after all. And, Steve, bag the beard...
...Most students [at Harvard] are on financial aid, it would be nice if there was a place where we could just spend $1 on tea and read a paper. What are [Tealuxe's] priorities? Is it just profit, or serving the community it's embedded in? They need to take into account all the people in the community," he said...
...loss of that direct profit is only part of the damage NBC will suffer as a result of Seinfeld's departure. Starting in the early 1980s, the network has dominated Thursday nights with programs like Family Ties, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Hill Street Blues and LA Law. For the past five years, Seinfeld has been the keystone of the network's Thursday lineup, which now includes Friends and ER, two other huge hits. The habit viewers have of watching NBC on Thursdays is one of the network's greatest assets, but with no Seinfeld to watch, the audience may fall...
Market Decline, Part III We've been here before, and it ain't pretty: The market got hammered Thursday by the same worries that dragged stocks down on Tuesday and Wednesday--tech profit warnings, more trouble in Asia, a weak financial sector, and worries about earnings season. This story and market news in the FORTUNE Business Report...