Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure to demonstrate higher earnings in every financial statement becomes relentless. Instead of using revenues to bolster research and development, some companies feel obliged to spruce up their profit-and-loss statement. Says Chief Financial Officer Victor Richmond of Williams-Sonoma, a chain of kitchen-supply stores that went public in July: "Everything we do today is done with the thought, 'Hey, somebody's going to take a look at this...
...Tsongas said that because of his ailment he would not seek a second term in November. Tsongas upset liberals in 1979 by endorsing a federal bailout for Chrysler. Said he: "What I've done is show you can be a liberal Democrat and still care about economics, that profit is not a dirty word...
...Enlightenment and Weimar Culture, tells the rather steamy tale of Mabel Todd in considerable detail because she illustrates to perfection the basic thesis of his ambitious new book: that the middle classes of the Victorian century, widely thought to have suppressed sexuality in favor of piety and profit, were just as amorous as their great-grandchildren of today. Even Queen Victoria was not really Victorian, says Gay, for she "drew, and bought, male nudes and gave her adored husband Albert just such a drawing as a present...
Motors reported that it made money in 1983's fourth quarter, the first time it had managed a profit since early...
When Liedtke heard of the offer, he shot off a telex to the Getty board threatening to sue the company for breaking the earlier agreement and promising to exercise a stock-purchase clause entitling Pennzoil to purchase 8 million Getty shares at $110 each. That would net Pennzoil a profit of some $120 million at the price Texaco is offering...