Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schuller's sunny world is not without a few darkling clouds. Last December California billed Schuller $475,185 for unpaid taxes, citing such profit- making uses of the building as music concerts, aerobic dance classes and a Ticketron outlet. According to William Underwood, president of Robert Schuller Ministries, the state has since refunded $247,922 of the original assessment...
...nearly three years since Nashville Investors Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler acquired ailing United Press International from E.W. Scripps for $1, they have slashed costs, reduced staff and cut wages 25%. For a time, the medicine seemed to work. When U.P.I. announced a $1.1 million profit in the fourth quarter of 1984, its first gain in 23 years, the owners predicted profits of $6 million in 1985. That view was overly optimistic...
...their Phillips stock rise from less than $40 when the battle began to the mid-50s in December and close last week at 49 3/ 8. The clearest winners were the raiders. Centimillionaires already, they became richer still. Pickens and his partners walked away with an $89 million pretax profit, while Icahn will gain at least $50 million for 30 days of high- pressure maneuvering. Said he: "I'm happy the shareholders benefited. But I'm no Robin Hood. I enjoy making the money...
...most prestigious university, continued to sleep. Harvard must go beyond tokenism; it must reject passivity. The bloodshed at Sharpeville, Crossroads and Soweto is too high a price to pay for an education. Harvard and other universities must cut their ties to South Africa; they must put people ahead of profit, that which is right ahead of that which is convenient. I join the call for total divestiture...
...proved to be shrewd in his dealings with his military colleagues and with the general public. Partly because of strong support from the U.S. and other Western countries, Pakistan's economy is strong, growing at a rate of 6% a year, and the country expects to profit from a bumper crop of cotton. Zia has set as his goal the creation of an "Islamic democracy," but his vision of Islamization is far more restrained than the one being practiced by the mullahs in neighboring Iran. Zia has remained on correct terms with both Iran and Iraq and strengthened Pakistani ties...