Word: profit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Boeing's shadow that the A380 flies. It hasn't helped Airbus that the $300 million plane was two years late to its own party. Airbus suffered a terrible financial year due to A380 production delays, costing it an estimated $6.61 billion in forecast profit. The company also plans to cut 10,000 jobs. It estimates that it will take sales of more than 250 A380s to break even on its $14 billion investment...
...value of the abracadabra. Blackstone and other private-equity firms collect a profusion of fees--from the companies they buy (like the charming Chinese custom of billing victims of capital punishment for the bullets used to kill them) and from their investors and usually a nice 20% of the profit when they sell the firms back to the public...
...about the swag. Here’s how to get it all: 1) Go naked. Your winter pastiness should be enough to have people literally throwing shirts at you. 2) Hit up the blocking day Stein Club circuit. Extra perk: free beer. 3) Start your own non-profit claiming to bring Harvard House t-shirts to third-world countries. 4) Surreptitiously sneak under the table and blow the shirt distributors. 5) Go into I-Banking. This delightfully vague Harvard classic seems to be a solution for everything. The more successful you are, the more bribes (read: t-shirts) you?...
...Patrick’s Day nor’easter. Bernstein said the restaurant will work to become a “partner in the neighborhood” by donating a portion of its earnings to the Cambridge Family and Children’s Service, a local non-profit which provides adoption, foster-care, and counseling services to needy families. He added that the restaurant also plans to form a long-term relationship with Harvard athletics and will permit student groups to use its space for fund-raising events...
...There is a lot of reason to feel pessimistic about the Middle East. But we have also today some possibility there that should help us to see the future of the region,” he said, citing Syria as an example of a nation that could profit economically from stability...