Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what if just about everyone begins to fly cut-rate? The break-even point will rise until airlines can no longer turn a profit no matter how packed the planes may be. Eastern's Borman is worried because his line's revenue is down from 8.840 per passenger mile in the first half of 1977 to 8.60 this year. Consequently, Eastern's break-even point has risen from 55% to 62% of capacity?that is, it makes money only when 62% of the seats are filled. Shuddering at the prospect of the CAB'S approval of another 70% reduction...
...turning down orders for lack of workers. Synerteck needs ion implanters, who manipulate control panels to change the electrical properties of silicon. Fairchild Camera and Hewlett-Packard both have hundreds of positions available that cut across every level of skill. Avantek has an eye out for janitors interested in profit sharing...
...Cloud Forest (1961) and the fictional At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), Matthiessen and his characters successfully, and at times beautifully, conveyed the dilemma of the Western mind: a need to worship wilderness and a desire to tame it in the name of progress and profit...
...your responsibility to figure out the rest of it. You've gotten this far. If you're interested in spending your money on "good causes," Theater at the Square is no doubt a good cause. It is a non-profit charitable public corporation (nice combination of words) which offers a theraputic arts program for normal and handicapped children. They were the first such corporation to be awarded a service contract under the Massachusetts Educational Act and they have also received recognition from the United States Commission on Arts for the Handicapped...
...education, talent, ingenuity and ambition. They exceed in relative numbers and potential cultural impact any similar earlier waves of newcomers. These are not the swinging superrich, who have always been free to flit from clime to clime. Nor are they the winging investors who see unsurpassed opportunity for profit here, or at least a safe haven for capital. They are entrepreneurs and professionals: bankers, financiers, managers, restaurateurs, moteliers and boutiquiers, disco owners, jewelers, architects, designers, publicists, models, film makers, exporter-importers and dealers in just about everything from abstract art to shopping centers...