Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Briefly (very briefly), the story line focuses on the aforementioned Bacon as Jack Casey, a financial whiz extraordinaire, able to turn a profit of $30 million for his brokerage in three short years, breaking every record within reach. Then, inexplicably, he makes a bad deal one fateful afternoon and loses not only his own saving and his position on the stock market, but his parent's retirement money...
...deficit, he says in a recent Crimson interview that the federal government should manage its money better--just like Mr. K. does at the giant non-profit company, Citizens Energy Corporation, that doubles as his political springboard. As for the Pentagon, he says waste should be eliminated. His analysis stops there, and we duly not that anti-waste isn't much more of a platform than anti-crime...
...College Work-Study Program (CWSP) pays 70 percent of the wages of needy students, provided that they work for a non-profit organization. This makes work-study students valuable to low-budget agencies which benefit from the work of college students. However, colleges and universities fall into the non-profit category, and at many--including Harvard--most or all of work-study students are snapped up by the numerous on-campus employers...
...late. For Ahab is plotting with his free-market cohorts, the sultan is distracted, and the profit motive looms large in Abyssinia. At the end of the first act (which runs for a marathon 90 minutes), cliff-hanging questions remain: will capitalism turn the sandy Solong into an OPEC nightmare? Will the big-hearted Celia Lips be able to stop the evil Ahab and his mercenary fling, the Countess? Will the Sultan ever discover his own hormones? And will the overfed Ethel land a job with the Chicago defense...
...interminable intermission, the drunken crowds are corraled back into the theatre. It would take a Richter-shaking song to wake this bunch. Wisely, Bravin, Chase, and Sagal have placed "Solong, Forever" where it is. Easily the most rousing number in the show, it's a stirring an-them to profit and sleaze...