Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funds." That is banking jargon for deposits that have not yet been credited to a customer's account during a holding period, as long as three weeks for out-of-town drafts, that the institutions have traditionally imposed as both a precaution against bad checks and a way to profit from the float. But the consumer frustration of waiting for a check to clear will be vastly reduced by new U.S. regulations that took effect last week. The law requires that checks drawn on local institutions must clear within three business days and that out-of-town checks may take...
...decade after the Communist Party sanctioned the return of the profit motive, sex is once again for sale on the busy streets and crowded back alleys of China. Venereal disease -- an affliction that was officially eradicated under Chairman Mao -- has quadrupled in cities like Shanghai. Meanwhile, millions of Chinese, newly exposed to Western ideas, have fallen prey to notions of romantic love and sexual fulfillment. An estimated 60% of Chinese are said to be dissatisfied with their spouses. Mandatory counseling has not prevented more than half a million divorces a year. Police crackdowns have failed to stem underground sales...
...remain determined to stop the further spread of China's sexual revolution. The cover of the inaugural issue of Sex Education was officially stamped as a magazine limited to bureaucrats rather than for sale to the public, which will make it harder for the fledgling journal to turn a profit. The fact that investors seem willing to outwait the government -- and that the first issue sold out -- has led optimists to conclude that Chinese pragmatism will ultimately govern the debate over how much sexual liberation China can tolerate. "The influence of the feudal society in China remains deeply rooted," concedes...
...some of the West's most formidable ( outlaws were little more than postadolescent punks. And the surveys tell us that some of our most potent box-office attractions, especially among the teens of summer, are postadolescent hunks. Can't blame a producer for thinking there might be fun and profit in having a group of the latter play a gang of the former...
...likes of Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips (an actor who curiously combines sweetness and menace and may have the brightest future of them all) could reinvigorate the moribund western form are quickly blotted out by the cloud of ineptitude raised by Young Guns. Profit, yes. The fool thing took in more than $19 million in its first two weeks of release...