Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Royce said Slack ignored the facts in calling ETS, a non-profit corporation, a "big business," but Slack said the salaries and assets of the corporation showed "lots of non-profit profits...
...them in Florida and possibly New York. Starting a casino, however, hardly gives investors a license to coin money, as the owners of some deficit-ridden Nevada operations have discovered: gambling is a fast-paced, cash-heavy business that, like any other, must be tightly run to turn a profit. How tightly, TIME Correspondent John Quirt learned by studying Harrah's, one of the oldest (it celebrated its 40th birthday Oct. 30) and most successful Nevada gaming concerns. His report...
...always filled every night, and top performers sell out nearly a month in advance: a recent John Denver engagement drew 82,000 telephone-reservation requests in a single week. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, Harrah's hotels averaged a high 92% occupancy rate and net profit rose 25% from 1976 to a record $14.6 million on a 13.5% increase in revenues, which totaled $161.6 million. Unlike many casinos in Las Vegas that cater primarily to heavy-spending Eastern gamblers, Harrah's has boosted its earnings-an average of 19% a year, compounded, for more than...
Oxfam America is a non-profit international agency which funds development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America...
...then Levanter is quite clearly more interested in profit-taking than in long-term security. His relationships are intense, but they seldom last long. "If one perceives life as Levanter," Kosinski remarked, "then perhaps relationships do not last into eternity. Drama cannot be endlessly dramatic and relationships have different intensity at different times...