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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your present salary, in the mid five digits, for quite some time, and the new management team, guys in their mid-30s, who came here from pasta, and are trying to bring pasta-type glamour and growth to the humble potato so that Amalgamated can turn a humongous profit and be sold and make top management dizzyingly rich, is cutting costs by decimating the drones, and now it's your turn to walk the plank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOU SAY POTATO... | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...Profit, though, is not without wry wit. Jim's mean father kept him in a box where Jim watched TV all day. And see how the boy turned out? As a grown-up he sits in front of a computer plotting against rivals. Indeed, technology can alienate--Profit is TV even the Unabomber could appreciate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SERIAL POWER MONGER | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...hard to imagine where Jim Profit might have received his M.B.A., but whatever the school, it was a place where he learned the art of downsizing all too well. Profit, an intensely focused executive at Gracen & Gracen, the 15th largest company in the world, eliminates manpower with the sort of effectiveness AT&T's CEO Robert Allen might admire. When Profit wants someone out of the way, he might have him framed for selling contraband chemicals to Saudi terrorists or set him up for the murder of a subordinate who died of a heart attack--or both. And no outplacement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SERIAL POWER MONGER | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...Profit, an incomparable thriller that debuted on Fox last week (Mondays, 9 p.m. EDT), is perhaps the first show on television to build itself entirely around a character so resolutely insidious. Even J.R. Ewing would be impressed by Jim Profit's cunning (and Dallas was more an ensemble piece). Played with a slippery chill by Adrian Pasdar, Profit is a young man of untrammeled ambition and unfathomable turpitude. What he's up against, the labyrinthian universe of Big Business, may be just as pernicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SERIAL POWER MONGER | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

Creators and writers David Greenwalt and John McNamara have done their best to imbue the show with a mythic ethos. The drama takes place in a gray, unnamed city (it's shot in Vancouver). Profit, a junior vice president, blackmails, murders and manipulates to remove obstacles and enemies, but his ultimate goal is unclear. While his urge to control is maniacal, he appears to want powers even grander than a mere title like CEO could bestow. The operations of Gracen & Gracen, "a family company," are shrouded in mystery. They simply "acquire"--businesses, information and, of course, souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SERIAL POWER MONGER | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

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