Word: profitable
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...filters, shampoos, vitamins--to friends and relatives; signing up new customers for a long-distance telephone company; even investing $5,000 in a scheme to provide leasable race cars to weekend thrill seekers, which has so far produced only two takers. All these businesses have yielded more loss than profit...
...also works in a field related to ESPP, doing environmental research regarding policy and business decision-making for Tellus Institute, a non-profit organization...
...Allen placed a conference call to investment analysts to issue a progress report. What he said promptly knocked $9 billion off the company's market value: it dropped $5.625 a share to $51.50. The reason: the phone company, still the biggest piece, is likely to earn about 10% less profit in the third quarter than analysts estimated. Allen said that net in the fourth quarter will also be below forecasts. That means profit will be down from a year ago too, perhaps as much...
...Risley attributes such problems to the delayed delivery of new planes in the face of soaring passenger demand. The 16-year-old New Mexico-based carrier operates 2,000 flights a day to 166 cities in 30 states. Borne aloft by the industry's good times, Mesa had strong profit growth in the second quarter. Yet Risley concedes that "we fell short of customers' expectations," and he vows to do "whatever it takes" to improve service. Apparently, it takes an FAA order...
From 1988 to 1990, Stowe consulted the Washington-based non-profit "Citizens Network" on agricultural and agribusiness projects in Russia, Ukraine and Uganda...