Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between Harvard University and its neighbors, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last Wednesday that the University would fund housing in the Boston and Cambridge areas with $20 million in loans, and another $1 million in grant money. This is an unprecedented contribution to the community from a private, non-profit organization such as the University...
...industry to realize what it's like to record from a free place." He charges that record companies like Warner Bros. (Prince's former label, which is owned by the same company that owns TIME) are making more and more money while the artists' share of the profit remains the same. "Now are you gonna write that," challenges [The Artist], "or is the matrix gonna stop...
...tech world. Microsoft has the resources and the moxie to survive and thrive. Start with an astounding balance sheet with $19 billion in cash. Interest alone will add $1.6 billion of earnings in the fiscal year ending in June, analysts estimate. That by itself is more than the annual profit of nine of 10 FORTUNE 500 companies. Gates exploits his money machine. He has large stakes in cable, Internet and telecom properties, pretty much assuring himself a big piece of the tech future, whatever it brings...
...College organizes transportation for thousands of students who will ride next week to Yale and thousands more who will ride the week after to the airport. These services are provided to the community at the lowest price that will cover their cost. The council doesn't run a profit from any of these events or services. If we want to hire a band and host an event that rivals other schools'--while continuing to provide the convenient and popular services such as shuttle buses--we will need a larger budget...
...Boston art community's justified optimism and pride: they just come out all wrong. In the photograph A Great Day in Boston, there are 810 beaming Boston visual artists. Behind all those goofy banners on Harrison Ave., there are three excellent commercial galleries and two lively non-profit spaces. The commercial galleries of Boston often show wonderful works by local, national and international artists, both emerging and established. The galleries tend to migrate from neighborhood to neighborhood every decade or so in search of collectors and cheaper rent, clustering around each other to benefit from the combination of their attractions...