Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordering more than 50 welders. Today GM has 270 robots, and there are more than 3,000 at work throughout the U.S. The biggest manufacturer, Unimation Inc., of Danbury, Conn., was founded in 1959 and cost its parent company, Condec, at least $12 million before making its first profit in 1975. It now produces 40 Unimate and 15 Puma robots a month, and will have estimated sales this calendar year of $42 million. Its chief competitor: Cincinnati Milacron, which makes the sophisticated T3 robot and expects 1980 sales of $32 million. It will soon open a new plant in Greenwood...
Research vs. profit at Harvard
Would Harvard University help form a commercial company to profit from the research of Harvard scientists? For a while the answer seemed to be yes. President Derek Bok floated just such a proposal last month. The centerpiece of the plan was a gene-splicing technique, developed in the labs of Molecular Biologist Mark Ptashne, that can be used to make interferon. In the future, sale of interferon and other genetically engineered products could bring in millions of dollars, so the idea of creating a company to develop and eventually market such products seemed attractive to the managers of Harvard University...
...Chicago a whopping 76%; Katzman pre dicts an 80 share nationwide. For him and Capice, this means vindication. For CBS, which pays Lorimar a reported $650,000 to air an episode and sold a commercial minute on last week's Dallas for $500,-000, it meant a profit...
...essays, with student's permission to give the administration next week. "I don't think we, as scientists, can never be insensitive to the social needs that technology can cure for society," Mendelsohn said, adding "but we have to be careful when these needs are determined by commercial profit, and not by a broader view to social good...