Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Companies can also profit from their good brand name by licensing it to other manufacturers. Levi Strauss capitalized on the success of its blue jeans by selling the right to use the Levi's name on boots, shoes and special models of American Motors' Jeeps. The familiar Playboy trademark appears annually on $120 million worth of products worldwide, including gold cigar boxes in Tokyo and men's toiletries in London...
...never tune in a 24-hour news channel in sufficient numbers to support Turner's expensive satellite system. Barely a year later, CNN has corralled a potential audience of 8 million, won applause for its live coverage of breaking news, and is on the verge of turning a profit...
...vital cities, there would be no civilization. Most cities were founded either as fortresses or marketplaces, Rouse points out, and nowadays he recovers the original impetus of modern cities by creating a marketplace-festival as the dynamo of downtown. He invokes a phrase he has made familiar among urbanologists: "Profit is the thing that hauls dreams into focus." Another familiar Rouse-ism: "It's not how many people live in a city. It's how many people...
When fully operational, the plant is expected to generate enough electrical power to meet the needs of 17,000 homes, giving the investors a return of 15% on their money, a profit that few utilities can match. Says Essex Chairman Jacek Makowski: "A hydro project can be viewed as an oil well with unlimited resources. Once you have the capital investment finished, you are good for 50 years, maybe longer...
...however, the company decided that it could not pay out that much in profit sharing and began buying back the managers' interests. Within six months, 50% of the managers had quit. And then the lawsuits began. Former managers claimed that the Fraction of the Action was actually a pyramid scheme that indirectly paid off top corporate officials with money put in by the restaurant managers. Charles P. Cattin, a former manager in Portland, Ore., sued Sambo's, charging fraud. Last month an Oregon court awarded him $925,000 in damages. The company paid settlements to resolve ten cases...