Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declaration of principles." Exploded Independent Deputy Roland de Moustier: "Enough propaganda! Your ministers spend their Sundays making Socialist speeches when they should be working." Unruffled, Mollet read out a paragraph about labor's aims, went on to dedicate the country's economic policy "to the profit of the working class." Said he: "I await your judgment with serenity...
...dictator could not very well overlook evidence that his colonial administration was gypping the home government by permitting local businesses to sell their goods abroad at a fat profit instead of shipping them back to Portugal at government-controlled prices-but he did not have to like it. Playwright Galvão was quietly dropped from the list of acceptable Assembly candidates by the nation's only political party, and soon afterward was hauled off to jail on charges of plotting against the regime...
...Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that can make the difference between retirement to Miami or to a county relief check. But to keep the union out, he must pay a stiff percentage of his profits to an underworking (Richard Boone) whose strongboys keep the little man in line and the union organizers on the anxious...
...Hoffman when Stahl and Di Salle were unable to pay the April 30 dividend. When the corporation could not meet its loan deadline. Roth agreed to buy Di Salle's and Stahl's shares at about a share (giving each roughly a $25,000 profit), Marcus' shares at about $7 each. Roth, who with his new directors has already lent the corporation another $1,500,000 and worked out financing for most of the parent company's $4,365,000 bank debt, will be Hoffman's new president. Stahl resigned ("I plan to buy another...
...guilt"-this Hook calls, in Jeremy Bentham's words, "the old woman's reason," pointing out that punishment itself is cruel; 2) "it constitutes a protection for the innocent" -that, according to Hook, is "far from conclusive until we know to what extent ... the guilty profit by it." The fact that in Anglo-American law a man is presumed innocent until proved guilty does not mean that his fellow citizens must abandon their common-sense judgments -"the common sense of the moral tradition of the Western world"-about his actions...