Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oilman thinks that breaking his word is smart business. He even admires it." One catches, yet again, a faintly elegiac note, the hint of mourning for a more chivalrous, manly order that is collapsing. Raising beef in a nation terrified of cholesterol does not always retain either its profit or its romance. The rancher wonders (as he has for a generation or two) if the endangered species is not the man who rides the horse. -By Lance Morrow
Continental Air Lines, which has furloughed 1,500 people, sustained a $60.4 million loss last year. United ran up a loss of $123.3 million in the fourth quarter, a startling reversal of the $40.6 million profit it earned during the same period in 1980. Even Delta, long the profit-making model for the industry, was hurting. Its fourth-quarter earnings were...
...airlines are in trouble. Piedmont, which flies mainly in the mid-Atlantic states, doubled its earnings to $32 million in 1981. The income of Denver-based Frontier Airlines was up 38% last year, to $31.9 million. Ozark earned $17 million in 1981, its first profit in three years...
...closings for one year, although it retained the right to shutdowns because of model changeovers or slumping sales. In addition, the company said it would extend supplemental unemployment benefits from twelve months to up to two years for workers with ten years' seniority and promised to begin a profit-sharing plan in two years...
...shrug. But, save for the narrator (Joe Silver), he is supported by performers who believe that Yiddishkeit is suggested by saying already every two minutes. Nor is he aided by Director Milton Moss's attempts to create crowd scenes by bunching his cast in clumps. Doubtless the profit motive made the producers wheel a pushcart show to the Broadway stage. They might have recalled another Yiddish proverb: The longest road is the one that leads to the pocket. -By Stefan Kanfer