Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contracting out is the process by which Harvard replaces its employees in a graduate school dining hall with a private catering service; or exchanges its guards for members of a for-profit security service; or displaces maintenance workers with competitive non-University firms--and often pays lower wages to the outside help...
Owens said he found the workers were glad to be employed in the profit sector. "There was a very difficult transition, but after five months we feel morale is high," he said. "Going from an institution like Harvard to a large company with a profit motive is hard, so I'm pleased," Owens added...
Perhaps most important of all, the Postal Service has stopped losing money. In 1979, for the first time since World War II, it took in more than it spent. Last year the Postal Service generated a profit, without subsidies, of $616 million, its third in five years. In the early 1970s, it lost as much as $200 million annually...
...believe that ratings are not a factor. And ratings are up." CNN executives counter that the ratings boost may be offset by the costs of live coverage. Still, the network's formula is working: Atlanta Entrepreneur Ted Turner announced last week that his empire had made a profit last year for the first time since he launched...
There is no contradiction between Hitchcock' canny conservatism and his directorial eminence profit and honor went hand in glove. Even his brief cameo appearances (silhouetted in the neon skyline of Rope, for example) are a playful cue to the viewer to watch every frame for tricks and revelations. The qualities that made him the world's best-known moviemaker were precisely the ones that made him one of the best film artists...