Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing for studio bosses, who will never replace the NEA as arts benefactors, is to make a profit. And that can happen when it's the directors and stars, eager to do good works and glean Oscar nods, who subsidize the projects by working for next to nothing. Branagh's sumptuous-looking Hamlet was shot for a mere $18 million. In its domestic release, the film need gross only about $12 million to break even. Why, Robin Williams, one of Hamlet's A-list co-stars, could earn that much on a single Jumanji-size movie...
...said that in the 17 years the Defense Fund, a non-profit organization, has been working to "monitor developments" and improve order in the Square, The Spaghetti Club remains the one "exception" among the group of bars whose record of incidents have improved...
...logic behind most capitalist business operations is simple: Provide what the customers want at prices they will pay while attempting to increase profit margins. This task is best accomplished by holding down operating and wholesale costs and raising retail prices and/or sales. The end of the process is profit; without that incentive, the owner of the business would not and should not be concerned with the business. True commercial co-cooperatives can easily be included among such legitimate businesses (at least until competing claims on profit or loss force its disintegration). Even nonprofit organizations (like the University) believe...
...Insignia items, for one, which are quite easily hawked to tourists with a psycho-erotic attraction to Harvard. Still, the Coop doesn't turn a profit. Don't you think J. August and the Harvard Shop might be willing to pick up the slack as replacement retailers for those products...
...acquiescence to turn over the management of its operations to Barnes & Noble provides a case in point. Within one year of privatizing operations, the Coop's costs of advertising, data processing and employee salaries and benefits have declined. Isn't it surprising that a firm interested in making a profit will prevent excess spending! Obviously, the Coop hasn't learned that lesson. And to judge from the its less-than-helpful permanent sales clerks, management isn't taking any pains to enforce capitalist dictates...