Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keys to Sambo's initial success was a potent profit sharing plan called Fraction of the Action. This allowed a restaurant manager to invest $20,000 to buy 20% ownership of his operation. When the plan was started in 1967, it attracted a small army of businessmen willing to put in long hours in return for the promise of making it big. Recalls John Puccinelli, who was a restaurant manager for three years in Concord, Calif.: "They recruited us by saying that if you'll stay with Sambo's for ten years...
...anti-Hugel faction at the CIA, sometimes using members of an "old boy" network of former agents, pushed for a quick Casey kill. It fed Goldwater the dubious information that Casey had emerged from Multiponics' bankruptcy in 1971 with a profit of some $750,000; he insisted he had lost almost his entire $145,000 investment. The same CIA sources apparently spread a false report that Casey and Hugel had planned a covert operation aimed at the "ultimate" removal of Libya's Strongman Muammar Gadaffi from power. Misinformation was leaked to Newsweek that the House Intelligence Committee...
...which is turned in upon itself, in which the bride and groom simply gaze obsessively at one another, goes sour after a time. A marriage which really works is one which works for others ... If we solved all our economic problems and failed to build loving families, it would profit us nothing, because the family is the place where the future is created good and full of love-or deformed...
...masters of venture money, however, must be patient. Since 1972, Kleiner, Perkins has been bankrolling Andros Inc., a small company that hopes to market an artificial heart. So far, the young firm has shown no profit...
...sales and a 1.7% slice of the ice-cream pie. At the other end of the range, often with thoughts of rising fast, is the beefy red arm offering a just-scooped cone to a customer through a candy-store window. Sometimes the arm can write some impressive profit figures. The Baskin-Robbins chain (whose promotion of bubble-gum ice cream means that discriminating adult coneheads write off its 2,600 shops as hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California...