Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard references to a broad range of new economic initiatives, including previously forbidden ideas such as competition, market pricing and profit. An important figure in the Soviet establishment characterized the old system of censorship as irrational and outmoded. Perhaps the most vivid example of change was the chance we had to talk with Andrei Sakharov, a meeting that, as % he noted, only two months before could not have taken place. He and his wife were gracious hosts -- he braving the cold and the gaggle of waiting reporters and photographers to greet us outside their apartment building, she serving...
Nonetheless, after ten years of declining sales, condoms are experiencing a boom in the U.S. Revenues have increased 10% in the past year. With the promise of profit comes an infusion of ingenuity. Japanese manufacturers offer a wide variety of styles, from condoms embossed with flowers to multiscented brands. For homosexuals there is a new, more durable brand in the works...
Industry observers were hard pressed to see the merit of such a merger. But in announcing its interest in Piedmont, the railroad may attract other bidders for the airline. Norfolk might then walk away with a handsome profit on its investment without ever having flown into the turbulent airline business...
...comes at a particularly difficult time for Thompson. Like all other agencies, it has recently been buffeted by a spate of mergers that has intensified competition in an already brutal business. But Thompson faces special problems. While the agency is admired for its creative flair, Thompson's pretax profit margins are estimated to be only about half the industry average. One likely reason for the poor performance: Thompson has been slow to cut costs and lay off workers...
...greedy curiosity. On the other hand, one may consider this book, 1980s-style, as an advance for the lot of women. We must reason that since Marylyn Monroe's body long ago entered the public domain, an enlightened feminist, such as Steinem, should hardly be prudish about reaping profit (monetary or literary) therein. It stands to reason that if men can gang-rape a woman, women can also gang-rape a woman--it's a free country...