Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemplates at intervals in the basement of Virgil Barren's bank). Still, mysteriously and unfairly, his normal existence seems filled with threats. Waiters "take advantage of people every chance they get." Negroes unreasonably wish to be regarded as fellow human beings. Jews violate standards of business practice and profit anyway; they also try to move into one's neighborhood...
...economic front, limited innovation, such as the introduction of a form of the profit motive and expansion of managerial authority, is being attempted to improve output and efficiency. But Soviet-style Communists resist any thoroughgoing reform for fear that economic liberalization might spill over into social and political areas. Soviet Communism remains in command throughout most of Eastern Europe, constitutes the major influence on the French party, and controls a number of minor "pocket parties" such as the one in the U.S. and nearly all of the small Middle Eastern and Latin American parties...
Haack is no defender of the tradition of setting commissions so high that they enable even inefficient brokerage houses to make money and the most efficient ones to make barrels of it. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a house that specializes in institutional orders, has consistently had a profit margin of 50% before taxes under this system. Individuals can make more money with less work on Wall Street than almost anywhere else in the economy. Some neophyte brokers earn commissions at a $50,000 annual rate within six months after graduating from a training course, and veterans fairly commonly make...
Gerald Gallagher, 27, University of Chicago, who has written a thesis on how airlines can increase their profit by carrying freight in off-hours, is entering business because "there is just a fantastic opportunity for a person who wants to do something with himself, wants to change things, while at the same time making himself economically free." He will join Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer, where he will start at about $17,000 as manager of planning, a job that will take him into all parts of the company. "I had the opportunity to go into several jobs where it would...
Calkins adds another practical argument to his reply to SDS expansion demands. You want to stop the Affiliated Hospital Center from being built? he asks. Then you are depriving the millions of poor people who will profit from the new medical techniques it will develop...