Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arriving at some U.S. toy counters in time for Christmas, WallWalker put fun into a lot of kids' stockings and profits into Hakuta's account. The toy, called Tako (for octopus) in Japan, costs about 20? to make. Hakuta buys them for 30? to 35? each, packages and airfreights them to the U.S., pays the import duty (12.3%) and sells to wholesalers or retail stores for between 70? and 80?. Thus he averages a 40? profit on each toy. So far, Hakuta has spent nothing on advertising or promotion. "It just goes to show...
...pact contained a wage freeze, reduction in bonus time paid for perfect attendance, and a profit-sharing plan and employee stock ownership option...
...think Karl Marx would have been in total agreement with Hugh Calkins' estimation of the Harvard Corporation's lack of ethical concerns--who with any sense in their head would expect anything but profit and power considerations from a corporation? So in this sense the fasters join every other justice-minded, moral human being on this planet who desires change in the face of insurmountable odds. I guess that means they're "ineffectual," "naive," maybe even a little crazy. But somehow it also seems clear to me that doing something--anything--to protest and bring to public attention a situation...
...clearly wrong, the companies doing business there face more complicated issues, like what will happen to their business if they pull out of the country, where their employees will go, how the nationals who depend on them for jobs, will get new ones. Yes, they are motivated by profit, but how many of us can deny the personal manifestation of that motive? Can Crimson editors who want to be CBS reporters? That the United Nations calls for divesting is no real help when I write the check, the U.N. has been wrong before. And how much sense does...
...phased out this year, and Chrysler is keeping its big New Yorker and producing large cars 16% faster than it did four months ago. Chairman Lee Iacocca, however, wants the Government to tack an additional 20? onto the federal gas tax to encourage conservation, even though there is more profit in bigger cars. Says Harold Sperlich, president of Chrysler's North American car business: "We are giving people the wrong signal, and hastening the day when the next oil crisis will arrive...