Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Nicholson will not reveal profit figures, he says that BIW is doing much better than it was at the time of its last public accounting in 1979, when it earned $28.2 million during the first nine months of the year. The firm has a defense order backlog of $800 million...
Priscilla Chapman, who accepted the petition for the Sierra Club, said the non-profit organization expects to reach goal of 1,000,000 signatures and plans to send copies to President Reagan and various congressmen within the week. She warned, however, that the petition cannot force the administration to change its environmental policy...
...explanation of the indirect benefits of conservation. Mankind could lose valuable but as yet unknown drugs from plants, the esthetic beauty of the gnarled Bristle Cone Pines and the majestic blue whales, and the companionship of our pets. Crass, short-term harvesting of whales to make a profit or use of DDT to save time, or polluting to cut costs--all these deprive us of natural novelties which once gone can never be creat#d again...
Some software companies act as publishers, soliciting programs from authors, who receive a royalty of 15% to 25%. Increasingly, though, the software firms, which are concentrated on the West Coast, are preparing programs with their own staffs, which makes quality control easier and profit margins higher. Among the major software companies...
Producer-Director Hal Prince attributes Broadway's boffo box office to "a very few very big hit musicals. The moneymen tend to become cautious when they see how huge the profit is with those shows ?and how big a gamble trying anything else is." Producer Alexander H. Cohen puts it another way: "Broadway is too successful. Hit shows are running longer, and there are fewer theaters available than in the past. That makes for a major booking squeeze. With space at a premium, the theater owners may soon be closing shows that are making a profit in order...