Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have it harvested. This year there is a big U.S. crop, but also Government supports and the hope of a heavy overseas sale. The price is $3 a bushel, not enough to turn a farmer's thoughts to a new Mercedes, but enough to turn a slight profit...
...would no doubt be laying for them next time, and papers in other cities might eventually join the war. The pressmen are in a sense the last casualties in the newspaper industry's long, wrenching and inevitable shift from benign, family-dominated management to the more bloodless, efficient and profit-minded imperatives that other industries adopted decades ago. The pressmen, meanwhile, will continue to resist?and grow old. The News's Frank Boylan endured the rigors of the pressroom for 13 years before making the rank of journeyman. By the time his two sons entered the trade a few years...
...financial stake in seeing Jascalevich convicted, Lacey declared: "This is a sorry spectacle of a reporter who purported to stand on his reporter's privilege when in fact he was standing on an altar of greed." How can Farber justify revealing information to a publisher for profit, demanded the judge, but not to a court when a man's life is at stake? James Goodale, the Times's counsel, sharply criticized Lacey for making the book an issue when it was "absolutely, totally irrelevant" to the reason why Farber's lawyers had asked for the writ...
...over last year, to $4.2 billion. The Soviet Union is the No. 2 gold miner, and last year its Wozchod Bank sold 401 tons at an average price of $150 an ounce, earning a tidy $2 billion. This year Wozchod expects to sell another 400 tons, at much higher profit...
Captain James Lovell Jr., president of a telecommunications company, on his days as an astronaut: "I didn't have to worry about the profit motive on Gemini or Apollo...