Word: profitable
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...Boston's Cabot Corp. had supplied special material used in making large valves for nuclear-propelled ships. Rickover had claimed that the firm made a 66% profit on this contract. The GAO estimate was only slightly lower...
...Waco's 100,000 residents each knock back an average of more than 300 bottles a year. But the company has enjoyed little success making Dr Pepper a national brand. The firm lost $4 million in the fourth quarter and finished 1982 with a $12.4 million profit, down nearly 60% from 1981. It hopes that two new decaffeinated Pepper Free brands will help push 1983 profits above last year...
Royal Crown (1982 sales: $469.8 million) shares the frustrations of other small soft-drink firms. The Atlanta-based company introduced the first diet and decaffeinated brands, but it has lacked the muscle to win a substantial market share for itself. Still, Royal Crown's $16 million 1982 profit was 3% above the 1981 result. The firm attributed the gain to the growth of caffeine-free RC100, which it brought out in 1980. Says Cola Division President Fred Adamany: "We're attracting new customers and brand switchers to this market. If there's a problem, it will...
...that manages about two-thirds of the family's wealth. Its biggest single asset is Rockefeller Center, the eight-block, 17-building office complex in New York City that celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. While the center reportedly generates revenues of $500 million a year, its 1981 profit was only $20 million. The Rockefellers have tried several schemes to wring more cash out of the complex and last year had even arranged to sell an interest in the center, but the deal fell through. Other family ventures include office buildings in Phoenix, Detroit and Newark, a paper...
Prospective Harvard novelists could profit from their forebears' achievement by taking close note of one love scene that breaks the pattern. It is a scene in which a Harvard man and a Radcliffe woman enjoy each other's company far from any library, with no preliminary required reading, and without a play-by-play narration of every general-education epiphany. Moreover, as it happens, it is far and away the most celebrated and financially successful love scene in the history of Harvard fiction...