Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan State Hospital. In addition, the purpose of the unusual award is to educate students in the field of mental health and to encourage them to pursue it as a career. Tests on volunteers will be conducted by a professional to learn why students participate, what they profit from their work, and the effect it has upon them...
...prices for tonsorial care. In fact, he was quite pleased by it all. Larry Cirella, of the Hotel Commander Barber Shop, is not affected by any Barbers Association edict because he runs a one-man business. His price to students and professors will stay the same. "I'll probably profit from the increase," added Cirella. "I am for the boys. My shop is like a home to them...
...Strikes, No Unions. P-B instituted group life insurance in 1928, profit-sharing for all employees in 1936 (current share: 6½%; of base pay), health insurance in 1941, noncontributory pensions in 1948. P-B has never had a strike, and the last attempt to unionize the company was snowed under 2 to 1 back in 1946. But Pitney-Bowes does have an elaborate parliament of workers, supervisors and brass who meet regularly and publicly discuss everything from the cafeteria's coffee (pretty good) to wages (above average...
...venture will be non-profit--the pilots will even pay one fourth of the cost involved in renting and servicing a plane for the flight. Passengers will be expected to split the remaining three-fourths of the expenses...
...these two groups is primarily at the symbolic level. For traditionalists, any use of the word "growth" or "adjustment" is enough to induce rage, no matter what the context or meaning. Conversely, for many progressives the suggestion that knowledge is best organized into "subjects," or that the mind can profit from "discipline," raises such a repellent image of rote learning and tedious pedantry that they will hear no more of the matter...