Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOYCOTT serves a two-fold purpose. First, if it catches on, it may cut into Stevens's profit margin; in this case, the old adage, "money talks," is unfortunately apropos. More likely, though, the boycott will succeed in bringing broad-based political pressure to bear on recalcitrant executives; it might even force the government to take more drastic action in enforcing...
...last quarter of 1977, Chrysler suffered an operating loss of $49.7 million, compared with an operating profit of $119.2 million in the 1976 period. This year's first quarter probably wound up in the red too because the company's share of the total U.S. market has slipped (to 11.3% in March) and foreign operations are producing mounting losses. Standard & Poors has downgraded the company's bond rating, and a group of antimanagement stockholders anticipates that the 900-per-share dividend will be eliminated. Besides conserving cash and issuing 20 million shares of a new preferred stock...
...Harvard Law School Forum is a non-profit law student organization inviting authorities in areas of public interest to come to the Law School and speak on any topics related to their fields. Past speakers this year include feminist Betty Friedan and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus...
...Companies are presently selling nuclear reactors to third world countries, and "General Electric has made these things and they have to make a profit, so they sell them to third-world countries," she said...
...book can be used for profit as well as pastime. For people who need a degree for job advancement, College on Your Own advises how to use the 1,700 or so colleges and universities (including Cornell and West Point) that grant credit for independent study. Most credits are based on test scores from the College-Level Examination Program (C.L.E.P.), and the authors believe that the reading lists in College on Your Own provide a good preparation. Says Parker, who taught history and literature at Harvard before she became an administrator: "We must not be misled by snobbery into thinking...