Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...News hasn't even been able to profit as much from the boom in sports coverage. Because it comes out in the morning, the paper is locked into a format that features mostly game stories rather than the analysis, inside dope and rumor-mongering that pervades the Post. The only big success the News has had recently is its rather pathetic imitation of the Post's "Wingo" called "Zingo." "Zingo" has added 100,000 to the circulation, putting the News back to 1,483,333 everyday, but that is still nearly 450,000 below the 1976 level...
...Right now we're applying for non-profit status to save on various costs. We never stared the business thinking we'd make a big killing on it." Magder said...
...Originally the design satisfied our investment concerns," Schmidt added, saying that because of changes forced by the historical commission he is now unsure whether the office and condo complex would earn an acceptable profit...
MATEP qualifies as "non-profit," Bownes wrote, because it is "wholly owned by a non-profit institution, Harvard" and because the EPA "could reasonably conclude that the facility will not make a profit on its sales of electricity, steam heat and chilled water" to six Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in addition to filling the complete energy needs of the Medical School, Dental School and School of Public Health...
...addition, "the bare possibility that MATEP may sell excess energy to Boston Edison in the future does not affect the plant's non-profit status, "particularly when there is little likelihood that such sales will occur," he wrote...