Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, the students emphasize that this year's recruitment efforts are not part of a company-organized campaign, and that in no way does the profit-making company desire to endanger Harvard's tax-exempt status...
...outgoing item against inventory in the store or a centralized warehouse, warning the manager when he must reorder and thus greatly reducing the frequency of the "Sorry, we're sold out" dirge. Obviously, the consumer benefits from computerized marketing. So does the store. Since supermarkets operate on a profit margin of about 2% or less, the savings can be crucial...
Insurance officials wonder. They portray trial lawyers as hired gunslingers who play on jurors' emotions to win unreasonable awards. The lawyers meanwhile paint insurance companies as profit-hungry and indifferent to the welfare of victims. Says Duane Gingerich of The Research Group Inc., a national legal analysis firm: "The enmity between insurers and trial lawyers is deteriorating into trench warfare...
...announce the introduction of Michelob Light in major markets. Says Chairman August Busch III, the founder's great-grandson, also a brewmaster: "You will see other marketing and product innovations as the year unfolds." Industry scuttlebutt has it that Anheuser is contemplating a move into soft drinks, where profit margins and growth are larger than in brewing...
Most parents say the benefits of raising a family at Harvard outweigh the difficulties. "I would hope that the students feel they would profit from seeing a family around," Fincke says. "Not that I would expect us to be the ideal family--maybe the opposite--but I like to give people another image of a family than that of their own parents. I wish I'd had more contact with married people when I was an undergraduate...