Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supporters to contribute $105,000 to promote Window of Opportunity, a book on the "American future" that the Georgian co-authored in 1984 with his wife Marianne and a science fiction writer, David Drake. Though the book sold only 12,000 hard-cover copies and failed to make a profit for its publisher, the investors reaped tax benefits for their contributions. They also paid Marianne Gingrich nearly $10,000 for her efforts. Gingrich admitted last week that his book deal was "as weird as Wright's." But unlike the Speaker, said Gingrich, "we wrote a real book for a real...
Ginger Walker, a vivacious 30-year-old Clay Centerite, launched her own business, Ginger's Shoe Shoppe, three years ago. Her stylish boutique carries an impressive assortment of stock, and has attracted enough customers so far to make a passable profit. Says Walker: "The biggest challenge is to compete with the large communities around us. Our prices aren't that much different. It's just the magic of the malls...
...seem to mind. Yet not all of them had the purest motives. One man vowed to use his cash bounty as a down payment on an assault rifle. Another threatened to kill the priest. Still others bought cheap $30 guns and sold them to Gourley for a $70 profit...
...unions had long since deteriorated into a bitter and highly personal feud between the two men. While Eastern insisted that the airline could not survive without substantial wage concessions from the machinists, Bryan maintained that Lorenzo was out to destroy the carrier and sell it off for his own profit. Lorenzo's battle with the machinists, said Bryan, was "the purest case of evil vs. good...
...matter of entrepreneurship, some of your executives have made quicker progress, thanks to entrepreneurship itself. We only started talking about socialist entrepreneurship in the past few years, thinking it a possible way out for ourselves. "Come on," we said, "move and think faster, and you'll get more profit for your enterprise...