Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...networks are not the place to make a great deal of money, Carswell said. Station owners make the highest profit--sometimes as much as 40 cents on a dollar, he added...
...Malone's account on that recent afternoon, Jefferson would have been appalled at the size of Government today, the number of cars on the streets (a prime cause, in Malone's eyes, of urban bad manners), the profit motive in everything, even sports, the ascendancy of merchants and bankers over the more creative farmers and industrialists, the decline of the English language and the idea that you use the White House as a "bully pulpit," in Theodore Roosevelt's phrase...
Some states have slapped extremely high taxes on liquor and created state-run monopolies to sell it, at a stout profit. A prime example is Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board, which has become the nation's biggest buyer of alcoholic beverages (last year's total: 11 million cases, worth $280 million wholesale). Before a bottle of liquor goes on sale at any of Pennsylvania's 750 "state stores," the board jacks up the price 48% for its own profit, then adds an 18% "emergency" tax levied decades ago to help victims of the 1936 Johnstown flood, and finally tacks...
...years, the investors may deduct the mostly borrowed cost over five years, providing them with $1 million a year in write-offs that they use to cut their taxable income from other sources. When the depreciation benefits are used up, the partners can sell the apartments, often at a profit...
...make any guarantees about your score," says Kaplan. "We try to get you to the top of your potential, but a lot depends on how hard you are willing to work on our homework and tape assignments. The people we help the most are the ones who can profit from an organized, efficient review...