Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase the size of our pie and not have to make these sacrifices," Kaplan says. "There exists a mentality that it's wrong if we're making a profit...
Which wouldn't matter if not for the tendency of Loewen and SCI to raise prices after taking control. The consolidators increase revenue through a combination of price hikes and a deft reconfiguring, or "remerchandising," of casket showrooms to ensure that customers buy caskets with far better profit margins. At the same time, they cut their costs by buying caskets and other materiel de mort at volume discounts and by linking funeral homes in clusters that share hearses, embalming rooms and other services. You may deposit your late Uncle Harry in that luxurious if slightly creepy Colonial house...
...cemetery division. But often, two former officials agree, this means banishing a newly acquired home's usual lowest-price offerings and replacing them with more expensive substitutes, so that when the customer picks that third-unit target, he ends up choosing a casket that yields a much better profit...
...this happening more and more," says Patterson. "My hope and vision are that this will create a middle-class musician. Right now, a band has to become a superstar to make a living. But with Net distribution, any band can get its stuff out and make a profit...
...because I had contributed $2,000 to the election campaigns of President Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela. I have never requested to be included on a Commerce Department trade mission, and I have not made such political contributions. I am president of a not-for-profit relief and development organization operating in various countries throughout the African continent. My agency does not engage in business of the type promoted by the Commerce Department's trade missions, nor would our operations benefit from my going on such a trip...