Word: profit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the volunteers will be doing research and creating educational materials over the next couple of years. She projects that FAST won't be fully operational until around the turn of the century. Still, Bostonian Robert Tynes, co-founder of INA (Increase Your Natural Ability), a not-for-profit company that helps teens like Nan start and run their own businesses, is impressed with the speed at which FAST, the fifth such company INA has launched, is taking shape...
Moreover, after assigning the sales job to its Saturn division, famous for customer satisfaction, GM offered such a stingy profit margin to dealers that they lose money on the business. The lackluster marketing has prompted dark mutterings about GM's motives. Is the company discouraging consumers so as to convince regulators that quotas should be abandoned? Why isn't the EV1 available in more states? Why is the car offered only for lease, with no purchase option? GM executives protest that if they'd set out to prove electric cars a failure, they would never have spent six years...
Heck, six months ago My Best Friend's Wedding hit the jackpot with a plot about what?--a lovelorn, self-centered and gorgeous young woman who tries but fails to manipulate her friends into her own romantic designs. Imagine the profit jumps if they retitled the James adaptation My Best Friend's Dying...
Farmer spoke extensively about Partners in Health (PIH), a non-profit organization he co-founded a decade...
Silbert, who founded the non-profit Center for Women and Enterprise in order to train women to start their own businesses, urged audience members to consider a career in entrepreneurship...