Word: profitable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...convinced that he could turn around Pan American World Airways that he made a daring bet. If the airline failed to make money on its 1983 operations, Acker would forgo his chairman's salary of $475,000. Acker won his bet. Pan Am had a slim operating profit of $52.4 million last year, vs. a loss of $314.5 million in 1982. Predicts Acker: "We will continue to improve service by every means possible. We are going to move forward with even stronger results in the coming year...
...rise after months of stagnation, summer job prospects this summer are brighter than in recent years. Not surprisingly, business and computer-related employment offer many of the summer employment offerings, but the lion's share of summer jobs, as always, should fall in the public and non-profit sectors...
Mary Beth Begley, administrative assistant at the Massachusetts Internship Office, says interest in public sector work is as strong as ever. Her office helps place students in internships with private, non-profit organizations and with government agencies. These internships, most of them unpaid except for some work-study openings, are offered in nine different areas applied sciences, the arts, communications and media, counseling, education, environmental affairs, health, law and government and management...
...with the facts; just house the people." The result: today's public-housing enigma. Local public-housing authorities still represent the best approach to addressing housing issues. They remain the only entity in the residential field whose sole objective is the provision of shelter, not the accumulation of profit...
...automation devices, rather than for the heavy machinery and new factories needed for long-term growth. Spending for construction of industrial plants fell 24% last year, and is expected to be flat in 1984. Businessmen seem to be reluctant to make investments that will not return a sure profit within a short time. Explains Robert Ortner, chief economist of the U.S. Commerce Department: "There is a fear that deficits will strangle the economy, which creates uncertainty. And uncertainty is always detrimental to long-term business decisions...