Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boeing is also beginning to profit from the industry's twin problems of overcapacity in big airliners (as many as 100 747s, DC-10s and L-1011s are grounded because they cannot be filled), and the fare wars sparked by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. While the trunks have been slugging it out in expensive discounting duels for a shrinking number of passengers on such popular routes as New York-Los Angeles and Miami-Chicago, small regional airlines, known in the industry as "bumblebees," have been making fat profits serving medium-size cities abandoned by the major carriers...
Woolworth watchers fear that the loss of executives of the caliber of Anderson and Allbright could be severely damaging to the company. They are afraid that the big retailer, which has been in a three-year profit slide, will become timid about expanding promising operations like Kinney Shoe Corp. and its Foot Locker unit, and reluctant to move fast into new specialty areas. On Wall Street, Woolworth stock fell 1⅝, to 24⅛, the day Anderson's resignation was announced. The shares closed the week...
...Dooley, whose team is now 4-5 (UNH is 4-0), said his squad can only profit from the game. "We'll be a much better team, especially when we begin our drive in February, because of what we learned tonight," he said. THE NOTEBOOK: The icewomen won't retake the ice until February 2, when they will meet Wesleyan at Bright Center ... Hurley's goal was her third in two nights ... The Crimson was coming off a last-minute 5-3 win over Brown Tuesday night. Bright Center Harvard...
...those concepts into practical application, is often a complementary process. The complementary nature of their activities, however, simply throws into relief the basic difference between universities and industries the academic imperative to seek knowledge objectively and in share it openly and freely; and the industrial imperative to garner a profit, which frequently creates the incentive to treat knowledge as private property...
...working--the university, the professor or the company. Of all members of the university community, the student especially ought to be working for himself or herself, and ought to be guided in research and trained in skills and techniques that are designed to produce a first-rate scholar, not profit for a company in the private sector...