Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major trouble spot lies in the early morning hours, a significant profit center for two of the three networks but an estimated $12 million-a- year loser for CBS. From Charles Kuralt through Maria Shriver and Forrest Sawyer, the network has tried countless hosts and formats in an effort to boost the Morning News audience. In May CBS brought in Susan Winston, the former producer of ABC's Good Morning America, to come up with an entirely new format for the show. Her ideas for a city-hopping program with multiple hosts (among the names proposed: Frank Gifford, Connie Chung...
Investigators suspect the Tamils were victims of an international plot to make a profit by transporting refugees seeking asylum in North America. Hamburg police last week arrested two Tamils and a Turk on charges that included violating passport laws and "trafficking in humans." Police identified the vessel that brought the Tamils to Canada as the Aurigae, a 425- ton West German ship that flies the Honduran flag. The telltale clue: the Aurigae's owners had recently bought three lifeboats belonging to the cruise ship Regina Maris. Though attempts had been made to sand off the name, the words Regina Maris...
...estimate by the Sacramento office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), which administers subsidies for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Salyer American, a Corcoran, Calif., cotton producer, may collect more than $3 million. As huge as these payments sound, Boswell insists that it might not turn a profit without them. "It is ludicrous to believe that we will be sticking any Government money in our pockets," says Boswell Spokesman Walter Brown. "This is survival money...
...Madjid help out a starving, sobbing woman by taking her to a camper park and finding her pathetic customers, while she leaves her toddler son alone to play. Although at first the boys do this for their own profit, they end up giving her all of the money for her child. The sight of the ravaged, ordinary, decent woman is horrifying enough even without any in-depth development of her character...
...hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week. The chain acknowledged that it may soon have to seek bankruptcy protection unless it can arrange an infusion of new capital. D'Lites lost $18.7 million during fiscal 1986, after making a profit of $948,000 in the previous year...