Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as Warsaw held the line against militant workers and farmers, there were signs that it was taking some reform promises seriously. The government last week published a draft program for sweeping economic change that would put greater emphasis on the profit motive, consult worker councils on management decisions and grant more autonomy to individual factories. It would also make concessions to the basic demands of the country's private farmers, who own about 75% of the land and produce 80% of Poland's domestically grown food supply. Among other things, the program called for higher prices...
...dollar. Miller also helped talk the United Auto Workers into what Union President Douglas Fraser called "the worst economic settlement we've ever made." The U.A.W. leaders accepted $622 million in additional wage concessions in exchange for a package of noneconomic gains, including a blue-collar profit-sharing program. But Fraser pointed out that "the only thing worse is the alternative, and that is having no jobs." Finally, Chrysler's suppliers will agree to $72 million in price cuts. The total package will reduce the company's yearly operating costs by $500 million...
Still pending is Dial's appeal for second-class, not-for-profit mailing rates, which could save it $380,000 annually...
...biographical sketches, he admires their energy and single-mindedness and the uncomplicated relish they took in pursuing knowledge, wealth and power. He understands the influences that gave their ambitions strength and direction: the Enlightenment and flowering of scientific curiosity; the Puritan ethic that placed religion in the service of profit; a vision of industrial progress that would free men from donkey work; a dream of dynasty in which rewards would be passed on to multiply through the efforts of one's sons...
...spite of its current financial position, Epps and Blumberg agree that the operation could be quite profitable. This potential for profit might induce HSA to take on the service with debt intact said Epps