Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a mainstay for publishers of magazines and books, other firms are being lured into the field, partly because of its attractive economics. Fancy catalogues can be expensive to prepare and distribute, but it costs even more to maintain stores and sales staffs; and mailorder firms generally enjoy a profit of 6% on sales, whereas that of conventional retailers...
...would like to clear up a quote that appeared not entirely in context. It should not be implied that WHRB "discovered" Private Lightning, The Tweeds, or any number of other promising local bands. The point is that, because of our lack of commitment to ARB statistics or dependence on profit-oriented programming, we at WHRB not only have the desire but also the means to provide these bands with an opportunity to be heard on the airwaves of Boston/Cambridge...
...bank, meanwhile, has recovered about $2 million of its money and will probably sell the diamonds, valued on the retail market at $13 million. Result: the bank stands to make nearly a $5 million profit from the heist...
...heart of the conflict is a fundamental, perhaps irreconcilable disagreement over the role of the press. To the West, the press is the independent Fourth Estate, watchdog of the other three, and profit-making servant of an informed electorate. To the Communist world, the press is an apparatus of the state charged primarily with educating the masses about state policies. Third World leaders may prefer the Western model, but believe they need a controlled press to promote economic development, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Observes Chicago Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick: "I hear the same complaints from the Third...
Time inadvertently drops clues to the solution of the Case of the Hard-pressed Farmer. One man says, "Each acre produces so little profit that all you can do is go for bigger acres." Another man who started a farmers cooperative says, "The market is so crazy these days that if you can't get access to the price you want at the moment it is offered, you might as well give up... We were at the mercy of people who just were not concerned with our needs...