Word: profitability
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...Soft money is one of the biggest loopholes that special interests have to get money to campaigns," said Eric Schmeltzer, communications associate at Public Campaign, a not-for-profit organization advocating campaign finance reform. "It is one of the biggest sources of buying influence and access to elected officials...
...Soft money is one of the biggest loopholes that special interests have to get money to campaigns," said Eric Schmeltzer, communications associate at Public Campaign, a not-for-profit organization advocating campaign finance reform. "It is one of the biggest sources of buying influence and access to elected officials...
Accordingly, Dell has withstood a profit squeeze on PCs. Estimates are that last year it posted an operating profit of $268 on each PC it shipped, while Compaq earned only $64 a unit and IBM actually lost $127. Even so, Dell is not relying just on PCs to extend its proud record of being the only company among the FORTUNE 500 that has increased revenues and profits more than 40% in each of the past three years. It is, in fact, somewhat de-emphasizing PCs to put more of a manufacturing and marketing push on such higher-margin products...
These strategies do not tell the full story behind this year's profit rebound. The Asian turmoil that burned Hewlett-Packard, Rockwell and many other U.S. companies in 1998 has yielded to a weak recovery that is at least less profit-destroying than a continued collapse. Contrary to all predictions, the American boom has not only rolled on but also speeded up. And marketing errors such as Mondavi's are relatively easy to recover from in an atmosphere of rising incomes and free consumer spending. But even if the 1998 profit lag was an aberration, as many economists think...
...series, and creator LARRY GELBART. They contend that Fox, which owns the licensing rights to M*A*S*H, has frittered away their show's value by airing so many reruns. In a lawsuit filed about 15 months ago against 20th Century Fox Film Corp., Alda and Gelbart--both profit participants--charged that Fox has exploited M*A*S*H by selling reruns to its local stations and then to its own cable station FX at bargain-basement prices compared with what it charges non-Fox-owned stations. Fox apparently contends it charged fair-market prices. But one source maintains...