Word: profit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some overseas markets it currently doesn't reach. Giuliani, who expended considerable political capital as Fox's man in the trenches, is already getting heat for securing something of a sweetheart deal for his political bedfellow Murdoch. The mayor is chipping in one of the city's non-profit educational channels to TIME Warner, which will use it for Fox News until more room can be made on its system. The payoff for New Yorkers: 24-hour news from the owners of the tabloid New York Post, and an OJ-sized daily dose of the Senate campaign finance hearings, which...
...movie buffs who long for the good ol' days of giant screens and picture palaces, the movie theater at Coolidge Corner--Boston's only non-profit moviehouse "with a big screen"--is offering up a weekly treat from cinema heaven. Every Wednesday at 7:30 pm during the month of July, one has only to take the T (Green Line) down to the Corner and queue up for a ticket to see one of four films that comprise the "70-mm series...
...YORK: Turns out Apple wasn't so rotten. Crediting a new line of Macintoshes and a corporate shakeup, Apple was pleased Wednesday to report a smaller-than-expected loss for the spring quarter: just $56 million. Hardly a profit, but at $1.7 billion, revenue was slightly up from $1.6 billion for the first three months of 1997. After analysts predicted losses topping $100 million, investors should be pleased. Meanwhile, the bruised Apple may look a little tastier to prospective CEOs...
...again. This time it is consistently matching ValuJet's fares out of Atlanta. Delta now has a low-cost airline, Delta Express, to fight ValuJet on its own rock-bottom terms. This is a lesson that the other major airlines have learned in battling upstart competitors, to their considerable profit. Alas, for travelers, the major airlines' profit is the flying public's loss...
BRENTWOOD, California: SOLD: O.J. Simpson's 6,200-sqr. ft. estate on Rockingham road, for $2.63 million, to the bank that had foreclosed on it. Hawthorne Savings will probably resell the home for a profit. Area real estate experts said the bank made out like a bandit, since the selling price was at least half a million dollars below market value. The estate featured great light, lots of closets, a guest house, and an enormous yard -- perfect for practicing your chip shots...