Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What would the effects of such a program be on the recipients and on the universities themselves? The universities certainly would profit. "A rise of $500 in tutition made possible substantially by an adequate loan program," Harris says, "would double salaries and re-establish the economic status of faculty at a level commensurate with the attraction of talent." There is one local drawback, however. If private business is not interested in taking on the program (which seems likely, since inflation would probably deplete much of the profit), the alternative suggested is the federal government. These two words are anathema...
...transformation of a businessman into an artist might seem as unlikely as the proverbial wringing of blood from a stone. But last week two refugees from the desk set proved not only that it could be done, but that their old skill at turning a profit could be brought over into a new world...
...Mach number electronically, time and program the firing of its rocket armament; there is even an instrument to measure the structural-material erosion of missiles at hypersonic speeds. With a second division making radios and navigational facilities for the CAA's airways-improvement program, Topp turned a profit of $879,974 on sales of better than $10 million last year, and has a backlog of orders worth...
...once called the "Macaulay flowers of literature." But if the book never enticed the readership he thought it deserved, it may have been because its nine volumes did not show that he had followed his own editorial creed ("Omit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit . . ."). In Author Samuels' view, Adams' philosophy of history parallels Tolstoy's in War and Peace, i.e., history is "a vast irony, a web of paradoxes," and the hero is merely froth on the crest of all great tidal waves of change. What animated the wave, Adams...
...management cooperative, on the other hand, tenants purchase capital stock in a specially set up corporation, and collectively own the apartment house. Tenants reduce the cost of rental by a "mortgage" down payment, and the cost of operation is less because it involves no profit for a realtor...