Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gets the feeling down along Grand River Valley that many of the farmers and merchants are entering a critical economic season. If interest rates break by the end of the year, there will be renewed hope and even some profit from the long labor of growing. But if interest rates do not yield to Reagan's schemes, there is the fear in Adair County that agriculture will begin to weaken and falter, even in the midst of its greatest triumph...
...soon as John G. McCoy took over from his father in 1958 as head of the City National Bank and Trust Co. in Columbus, he asked the board of directors to spend 3% of each year's profit on research and development. The directors responded: "This is a bank. Why do you need research?" Explained McCoy: "I don't know. That's what I want to find...
...minute performance. The monetary incentive is one reason that 60% of the litigants approached by the producers agree to appear on the show. It is also the source of some criticism: a party who created a dispute through wrongful conduct can end up benefiting from it. Such a profit, however, may be more than offset by the adverse publicity, so some businessmen resist the temptation to argue their cases on national television...
Along with diet books, cat books and advisories on how to make a profit from the coming apocalypse, there is a growing shelf concerned solely with mastering that infuriating, six-sided, six-colored, 27-part boggler with 42.3 quintillion possible combinations known as Rubik's Cube. The latest entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet...
Publisher N.S. ("Buddy") Hayden, refusing to be discouraged by the demise of two other afternoon dailies, the Washington Star and the Tonight edition of New York's Daily News, predicts that his paper will turn a profit by 1984. "Philadelphia is big enough and vibrant enough to support two viable metropolitan newspapers," he says. The Charter Co., the oil, insurance and publishing conglomerate that owns the Bulletin, plans to pump in up to $30 million over the next four years. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Phillies Batting Star Pete Rose is doing some pitching for the Bulletin in radio spots...