Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 1,500 public agencies in Iowa. A beneficent act of Congress requires that federal excess property be offered to state and local agencies, virtually free of charge, before it is put on public auction. That means before all those cigar-chomping characters who excel at turning a profit from reselling Government castoffs can lay hands...
Cultural Survival, Inc., a non-profit organization which provides financial assistance to indigenous tribal groups, and the Anthropology Department are sponsoring the concert in collaboration with the Boston-based Anthropology Resource Center...
Despite all the reports of Chrysler's troubles, Ford appears to be the automaker with the most serious woes. So far this year, it has lost $1.2 billion, a stunning red mirror image of its $1.2 billion profit during the first nine months of last year. Even Ford's once prosperous overseas operations lost $26 million in the third quarter, in contrast to a $402 million profit...
...poor third-quarter company reports were centered primarily in some of America's oldest industries. Data Resources estimated that steel companies' earnings fell 96%. U.S. Steel profits were down 12.7%, and the company would have lost money except for the sale of $77.8 million worth of its cement division and some real estate. Bethlehem Steel lost $32.3 million in the third quarter, as contrasted with a $74.8 million profit during the same period a year ago. Chemical giant Du Pont reported an earnings decline of 61%. Since the housing industry had been especially hard hit by high interest...
Even the once seemingly impregnable oil companies, which last year at this time were posting profit increases of about 100%, had more modest earnings growth between July and September. Profits for the industry as a whole were up just 7.6%. Exxon's earnings grew by 18%, but Gulf Oil's fell...