Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there aren't other rocket companies waiting to shoot yours out of the sky, as is happening to the discounters. Of all the newer crop of start-ups (those in business since the early 1990s), one of the few winners is Reno Air Inc., which posted a net profit of $2 million last year. The five sizable publicly traded discount airlines lost a combined $58 million in the first quarter of 1997, while most big carriers enjoyed sky-high profits. "You have to find a niche and stay with it," says Bob Reding, Reno's president...
...change, they say, when the two automobile companies with large plants in Bedford start requiring employees to shift to managed care and when Medicaid and Medicare begin pushing recipients into HMOs. At that point, if Dunn is to survive, it may have to sell out to a large for-profit chain. Should that happen, Bedford's medical civil war will simply rage on with even greater firepower...
...study estimates. Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores tossed out 5.4 billion pounds of food. While publicly aghast at the spoilage, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman is mostly satisfied with providing a food recovery hotline (1-800-GLEAN-IT)and such non-profit organizations as Second Harvest to distribute the bounty to the needed...
...study estimates. Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores tossed out 5.4 billion pounds of food. While publicly aghast at the spoilage, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman is mostly satisfied with providing a food recovery hotline (1-800-GLEAN-IT)and such non-profit organizations as Second Harvest to distribute the bounty to the needed...
...Grant kill in their careers as Hollywood heroes? Precious few, because life--even a villain's life--was held more precious then. Maybe the old movies were naive, but we'll take naivete over the thoughtless, numberless carnage that makes the modern action film a Bosnia for fun and profit...