Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, the Kroks usually sing for profit--as often as two or three times a week during the school year, O'Halloran says. Alumni donations and revenue from these gigs are the 42-year-old group's sole sources of income--and the means by which it has toured each summer since the 1960s. Larsen says that the Kroks are so well-known from their tours that they get invitations to perform from the likes of the Austrian royal family, the American ambassador to Switzerland and the Japanese parliament...
Glasser should realize that international programs have long been an essential part of the School; the largest program is celebrating its 30th anniversary this fall. In addition, the programs bring benefit not only to international students but also to American students who profit from exposure to new ideas...
...tuition to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures national inflation for a breadbasket of consumer goods, is inappropriate. Instead, they say, the tuition hikes should be measured against the Higher Education Price Index (HEPI), which guages increases in university expenses. The annual index is calculated by an non-profit research firm...
Everett is the founder of the International Trombone Association (ITA), a world-wide, non-profit organization of 2500 members that used to run Boston Sackbut Week, an celebration devoted entirely to the trombone. "We got tired of organizing it. We were busy doing other stuff," said Everett. "We thought it might be fun to have one day instead and see the interest that arose...
...cable TV. Programming includes crop and livestock reports, country-music videos, a polka-music show and a smattering of old western movies. Patrick Gottsch, a former satellite-dish salesman who raised $4 million from investors to start RFD-TV, thinks the channel can attract enough advertising to turn a profit in its first year. Says investor Jim Harker of Omaha: "Nobody else is hitting the agricultural market. We're stepping into a vacuum...