Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past PBH worked mostly with tutoring individual students who asked for help, but now we're going to deal with the city's educational difficulties--lack of enough guidance counselors, for example," Profit said...
...president Wesley E. Profit '69, who made the announcement yesterday, said that he hoped members of the other groups would inject life into PBH programs by providing more students with other points of view...
...textbooks tell us that the gap between rich and poor in our society has scarcely narrowed in more than fifty years. Deprivation persists amidst affluence, for our economy, for all its productivity and all its prosperity, still rests on the exploitation and manipulation of the many for the profit...
...anticipation of that happy future, the number of empty seats is growing at an alarming rate. In addition, the industry has been bedeviled by spiraling expenses, which increased by 21.2% last year and are up almost as much more in 1968. The one-two punch has battered the profits of some of the biggest carriers. United has suffered an earnings decline this year of 49.2%, Continental Airlines of 62.5%, Eastern of 63.3%. Even worse off is Trans World Airlines, which lost $1.78 million during the year's first half, compared with a profit of $7.62 mil lion...
...companies outperformed the 500 leading U.S. firms in the growth rate of sales. The combined sales of the 200 were up 8.3% in 1967, down from the previous year's 9.5% but still ahead of the 500 U.S. companies, whose sales increase as a group was 7.9%. The profit picture was even more startling. Earnings of the 200 went up by 6.7%, compared with 1966's paltry 0.7% increase over 1965 and in sharp contrast with a 3.1% decrease in earnings...