Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World of Profit, Auchincloss...
Higher totals, however, do not tell the whole story. The profit gains were in inflated dollars, which have less purchasing power when plowed back into raw materials, expanded inventories or new plants. Some companies also made their profits look better by changes in accounting methods, notably to straight-line depreciation procedures, by which equipment costs are distributed over a greater number of years. Items...
...government investigations. No matter what the outcome of the inquiries, the battle itself has put French businessmen on notice that the old days of secrecy, silence and short-changed stockholders have faded. From now on, even the most tradition-steeped French managements will have to produce results in the profit column or face the possibility of another such flamboyant takeover attempt...
...Harvard is a corporation; it has business interests, for instance, in the power companies of the American South (companies which follow racist hiring policies) it is a landlord in Cambridge and its effect on the community had been to drive up rents and dispossess working people (at an enormous profit). Harvard allows military recruiters free run of the campus, and specifically, the three ROTC programs, dating back to 1916, are among the oldest in the country. Harvard also gets government research contracts for a variety of purposes (Louis Fieser, the inventor of napalm, is a professor at Harvard...
...costs would rise only 3% or 4% a year, but they have actually gone up about 12%. Result: losses on those jobs amounted to many millions of dollars last year. G.E. has a big backlog of $2 billion in orders for nuclear plants, but probably will not realize a profit on them for several years...