Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of mergers and takeovers, on the other hand, charge that hostile consolidations disrupt management and force companies to think mainly of short-term profits rather than of how to become more effective competitors in U.S. and foreign markets. Even the short-term run-up in stock value that frequently occurs in merger situations may not be to the long-term benefit of a company, since it may overstate the firm's actual worth. Martin Lipton, a Wall Street lawyer who specializes in helping companies defend themselves against raids, denounces them "as financial transactions for the profit of the takeover...
Even for the makers of sequels, there ought to be a more exalted motive than profit. This follow-up to last year's surprise hit Romancing the Stone reunites Stars Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, sends them off to an Arab emirate, then gives them nothing to do but market their charisma. In the first film, Turner intoxicated as a drab novelist who blossomed into a spunky heroine; here, she is fighting only celebrity veg-out. Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner's plot, which amounts to a series of enforced aerobic exertions, matches the two funsters with a cartel...
...payroll' of a lucrative prostitution and pornography ring. He or she didn't expect to be forced to have sex daily, with strangers, under the unblinking eye of a movie camera. He or she didn't anticipate being beaten and drugged, tied up and raped, on a regular and profit-motivated basis...
...Reliance on the magic of the market place" and "profit incentives for farmers" are critical to Africa's progress, Greenlief said...
...selling products that range from luxury fountain pens to ladies deodorant. Fully one third of the corporation's business, however, remains in the bedrock blades and razors division: the action end of the shaving process accounts for one third of Gillette's total sales and two thirds of its profit. The company dominates the U.S. shaving market supplying 60 percent of the country's blades and 70 percent of its razors--that's 1.3 billion blade edges a year, an overwhelming 5.4 million edges...