Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughter gets older, I might choose to work full-time, but I want that to be my choice--not something necessitated by the administration cutting my benefits to enhance its profit margin," Tuttle said...
Clinton is more willing to let corporations figure it out themselves. His argument is that in an era of fast technological change and slimmer government, business will profit by embracing a broader mission. In a speech at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, last March, the President said, "What is the role of business in this new era? It should, first and foremost, do well, make money so you can hire people and contribute. But it should, whenever possible, do well in a way that strengthens families and grows the middle class...
...good." The executives heard from a dozen companies the President spotlighted as good corporate citizens that have excelled at creating family-friendly workplaces, offering generous health-care and retirement benefits and upgrading worker skills. Clinton is trying to support the needs of American workers at a time when corporate profits are skyrocketing and wages are stagnating. The issue came to the forefront in January, when AT&T laid off 40,000 workers, and promptly saw its stock price rise. Just this week, ConAgra's stock rose nearly 18 percent the day after announcing 6,500 layoffs. TIME Business Editor Bill...
...staff gladly compliments the administration where no compliment is due. Loker Commons was never meant to be a for-profit restaurant, nor could it be under what we assume to be the charitable nature of the gift of Katherine Bogdanovich Loker. Harvard deserves no congratulations for complying with local laws which seek to protect Cambridge's tax base of profitable businesses...
...that people where I work are experiencing post-merger. The nirvanic green world that beckons out there is a place from which many of us unwittingly withdrew years ago. Now Big Business waits quietly in a dark cloak carrying a scythe. It stalks the very elements that made it profitable and yielded it market share--its people who have labored so hard. The parvenues of "new management" will wring out every last drop of dedication from the drones in the name of profit. But as Keillor noted, there is an appealing green world, and no one is permanently marooned. TERESA...