Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an indelible image: a living room transformed into an explosive fireball by a match tossed in a wastebasket. Experts call the moment of conflagration "flash-over." Most Americans have never heard the term-indeed, most people who have seen flashover are dead. Yet flashover for fun, and for profit, has become the country's favorite act of God. Every hour 300 fires break out in the U.S., killing one and disfiguring three, more than in any other industrialized country...
...Conley, 30, of Herrin, is a pit committeeman for the union at Old Ben 25 mine in nearby West Frankfort. "Kerr-McGee will hire miners for Galatia out of state, where union tradition isn't strong, and pay better than union scale, scrimping on safety for their profit. With no union, anyone who complains about safety will get fired. I hate to see everything we fought for here go down the tubes. John L. Lewis would roll over in his grave...
...pursuit of pure knowledge be compatible with the pursuit of profit? Some observers are skeptical. Corporate funding provides a boost to research and is relatively free of the red tape that often entangles Government grants. Yet one ideal of a university, however fitfully adhered to, is the sharing of information. Most contract grants between business and universities allow the donor corporation to review findings before publication, ensure exclusive patent rights and sometimes keep key data secret so competitors will not get them. While many technological breakthroughs have resulted from purely theoretical research, corporations tend to be more interested in encouraging...
...profit organization, "will barely break even" on the tour, Janet Haudelman, the tour's manager, said yesterday...
...firms. The "public and private sectors of Lowell are now engaged in ardent embrace," he says. And so it may be, but the tax breaks that encouraged investment in Lowell meant the plant didn't go up in some other town. And, by the same token, any concessions to profit that can be made to keep industry in America means someone overseas will go without. Like many embraces more ardent than wise, this passion for industry will likely end up with someone getting screwed; if concessions must be made, they should be made cynically. It's all right...