Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Security can be a good thing," Ford added. "It is a more noble motive than profit, but it is precisely those individuals who take risks…that set our standards...
...early stages, and may yet work in the companies' favor. Sony, analysts say, is losing money on every PlayStation console it sells because of aggressive price cutting. If users start trashing their consoles in favor of a PC keyboard, the Japanese giant might make more of a profit from games licensing. Sony games, even in their pirated Internet versions, contain about five times as much digital information as Nintendo's, and are thus more difficult for illegal users to download. They must copy CDs, using special $300 drives, and install a mail-ordered $4 modifying chip--a significant psychological barrier...
Tiger makes Oliver the trusted liaison with the Orlovs, who dismissively call him "Post Boy," until he grows sickened by the sort of traffic they conduct for their and his firm's profit. "lf I can go along with selling the blood of poor Russians," he asks himself, "where if anywhere will I draw the line?" So, after one more disillusioning visit with the Orlovs, Oliver deplanes at Heathrow Airport and impulsively asks to see a high-ranking officer of Her Majesty's Customs Service. As it turns out, Oliver is just the person that Nat Brock has been waiting...
...Indeed, Harvard is the second richest non-profit institution in the world. Therefore, not only can it easily afford paying Antonio and its other laborers at least $10 an hour, but the institution (as well as its past and present students) can afford campaigning and advocating for a whole lot more...
Kirks had been the chair and president of the Children's Hospital Radiology Foundation, a non-profit organization of doctors that provide radiology services to children at the hospital...