Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the airlines can make a profit from their first and business classes and don't need us after...
According to officials with the federal Council on Wage and Price Controls, the University's non-profit status would not exempt it from Carter's plan...
...Kroc, McDonald's Senior Chairman, in Tokyo to open stand No. 5,000, on his other role as owner of the San Diego Padres: "The club is a helluva lot of fun, like my wife, but there's no profit in either...
Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, believes that consulting can be professionally beneficial. Feldstein, president of the non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research, noted that "if you're in economic development and you're sitting in Cambridge you won't know anything, because Cambridge is not that underdeveloped." He cited the example of a professor who studies industrial organization, and said that he would "learn a lot more about how a business thinks if they're paying you...If I'm in industrial organization and want to know how Gillette makes it marketing decisions...I couldn...
...Lyonnais $1 million received from U.S. importers for Bordeaux wine; the bank can sell those dollars for other currencies if it wishes. Banks have a cold-blooded view of the potentialities. Says Jean Bourg, head of the currency department at Credit Lyonnais: "We take advantage of small opportunities [for profits in currency trading] as they arise during the day. We are not interested in trends, but in extremes and how to profit from them...