Word: profit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argues that finance work is necessarily humanitarian because the "invisible hand" will soothe and heal all. But the invisible hand knows no morality and doesn't care for people's pain. Though the numbers (stock points, profit margins, etc.) by which investment bankers make decisions are amoral, the decisions they make can determine whether working people have the jobs that allow them to feed their families and whether communities thrive or atrophy. The investment bankers and consultants guiding the merger of Mobil and Exxon into one great leviathan seem little concerned with the 9,000 factory workers expected...
...working young people who can use the incredible tools we have received here to make the world a better place. We have an obligation to give back to those who deserve it most, and not just incidentally if it is convenient for us and for our investment bank's profit margin...
Hearkening back to a debate that began two years ago, Levy supports spinning the Campus Life Committee into a separate campus organization. The idea is to give the new organization seed money, and then require it to make a profit on student events in order to subsist...
...Hail Mary play by a company running out of time, Jobs staged a remarkable turnaround. He signed a peace pact with his nemesis in Redmond, killed off the Apple clones, launched an eye-catching ad campaign ("Think Different"), streamlined his product line, slashed inventory and turned a surprisingly large profit. Suddenly, Apple is cool again, thanks to a sexy, blue, Internet-friendly machine--the iMac--that is almost as hot as the original Macintosh. He may not run the computer world, but he sure can make a dent...
...efforts of Morel and others eventually pressured Leopold into giving up what had previously been solely his colony, but not before the King had personally made what would amount to a profit of $1.1 billion in today's currency. Yet, Hochschild does not provide a fairy tale ending of prosperity in the Congo. Instead, he stays true to his historical roots by presenting an accurate, if not uplifting, portrait of life in the Congo post...