Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first municipalities to adopt rent control in 1970, when inflation and rising property values led tenants' groups to lobby for the policy. The City Rent Control Board sets rents for 17,000 Cambridge housing units, using a formula that accounts for operating expenses and what it considers a reasonable profit for the landlord...
Meanwhile, the profit squeeze is producing some changes at IBM. It is hoping to reduce its U.S. work force 5%, to 230,000, by the end of next year, mainly through attrition and early-retirement incentives. On a more trifling level, Big Blue has pared spending on such items as employee travel and magazine subscriptions. The company that could once make money almost at will now seems to be counting every penny. --By Janice Castro. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York
...recent study of rent control in Berkeley and Santa Monica by Richard Devine of the "Center for Community Change," a non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment of the poor, the author concluded that "the overwhelming majority of benefits...accrued to middle-class households who were given the unique and ethically comfortable opportunity of maximizing their interest by voting to protect the poor from exploitation." He found that expenditures for discretionary goods such as stereo equipment and gourmet food to be unusually high in these communities. Such items were paid for with increased disposable income due to articially low rent...
There they are: more than 60 employers in Memorial Hall offering you a unique opportunity to sample various careers in a smorgasbord of business and non-profit settings...
Simpson claims that the archives of Lord Duveen, a famous art dealer, show the underside of Berenson, whose critical expertise determined the value of many famous paintings. Berenson may have collected a 25 percent profit on all art works sold by Duveen, many of which Berenson authenticated for clients, Simpson argues in his unpublished manuscript...