Word: profitable
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Pepsi is also lagging in the critical category of profit. Coke pockets 30' for every dollar's worth of product it sells outside the U.S. Pepsi earns less than 7', a figure it hasn't been able to improve. This difference is enormous when you consider the sums of money these two companies have been investing across the planet. Coke for instance, is doubling its investment in Russia to $500 million next year. In China it has plunked down another $500 million. This year the company will invest some $1.5 billion worldwide. "You cannot jump-start things in this business...
...crowding competitors off shelves and best-seller lists with his flotilla of Green Mile installments. Others in the industry see more pandemic ills, citing a trend toward increasingly larger advances paid to authors, and the increasingly larger printings that are subsequently ordered in an eager effort to make a profit...
...require dealers to offer their customers better prices often available on electronic trading services like Instinet Corp. Customers are hailing the reforms as groundbreaking changes, the like of which have not been seen at the Nasdaq since the 1970's. The rules will save investors money (while cutting dealer profit margins), both by lowering fees and eliminating price-fixing. The reforms, instituted over howls of protest from Wall Street dealers, are not surface changes - the agency is changing the structure of Nasdaq, says TIME's Bernard Baumohl. "This is a positive development. It minimizes the chances that an individual investor...
...Fresno, California, where he spent a week helping fight the flames in the Sierra foothills, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt reflected on how a second Clinton Administration will approach the art of thinking small. On healthcare, the Administration takes credit for triggering the "reform" that was carried out by large profit-making managed care firms that bought up doctors and hospitals across the country and cut prices. On environmental issues, instead of carrying the big stick, the feds will advise empowered states and local communities on how they can address such questions as air and water pollution issues "and then...