Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year and price hikes to 4% (wages would be allowed to go up more than prices because some of the pay increases would presumably be offset by higher labor productivity). However, these standards would be flexible and would take into allowance such things as unusually low profit margins or the need for catch-up wage increases...
...fallen angels have risen again under new managers and sometimes new names. They have cleared up lawsuits, paid off creditors -at least in part-and are actually earning a profit. Four reincarnations...
...based in New Jersey and run by Alan Gruber, a former Xerox executive. It still sells insurance through two healthy companies acquired by Equity. It emerged from reorganization in March, and last month its stock began trading publicly again after a long suspension. The company turned a profit even during the reorganization-$4.6 million during this year's first nine months, on sales of $55.5 million. In a way, Equity/Orion has also earned money for Analyst Dirks. He faces a Securities and Exchange Commission hearing on charges, which he denies, that he failed to tell...
...production, Miller asks Prince to serve as a "front" for him. Under Prince's name, Miller's excellent scripts are submitted and readily accepted by the same people who refuse to deal with Miller because they consider him a Communist sympathizer. Soon Prince, now skimming ten per cent profit, begins to front for two other blacklisted writers in addition to Miller. As a fringe benefit Prince attains celebrity status and the attentions of his attractive script editor Florence Barret (Andrea Marcovicci...
...Wales, she has now moved into an abandoned slum building in West London and opened a low-priced restaurant for some 200 fellow squatters and other neighborhood residents. "I've always wanted to do something like this," says Arabella, 27. "We don't want to make a profit. We just want to give good meals at cheap prices." The Greater London Council, which owns the building, promises to evict Arabella and her pals as quickly as possible...