Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...price war erupted, sparked by rival Fujitsu. Apple had climbed to No. 2 in sales in Japan, a remarkable accomplishment for an American company, but then switched local managers and virtually self-destructed. In just a few months it cut prices so dramatically that it could not protect its profit margins in what was supposed to be its best quarter of the year. And even then, Apple wasn't able to sell all the computers it produced for Japan...
...seven divisions except Chevrolet. GM's truck-transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio, has operated every hour of every day for the past five years, and industry experts calculate that if GM could add two more truck plants, it could sell 450,000 more units a year, for an added profit of $3 billion...
...even this year's giddy sales numbers don't exhaust the good news. Cars are so complex and expensive to build these days, in part because of the demands of fuel economy, that there is not much profit left except in the luxury models. Trucks and truckoids, even with the power windows, CD players and pleated leather seats that suburban buyers are asking for, are still simple enough, many with rear-wheel drive and huge, iron power plants outmoded 20 years ago, to return $4,000 to $6,000 in profit per vehicle. And so far, buyers have absorbed sizable...
Though addiction specialists concede that some scamming went on in the for-profit recovery business, they nevertheless caution that for some patients, one month in a placid, nurturing environment, away from all the temptations of their old routine, is the best medicine. Dr. Frederic Schiffer, who recalls treating cocaine addicts at McLean, says he saw his patients four times a week for four weeks. "They needed the time to be held in a kind environment," he claims. "The grounds were very therapeutic. We would walk the grounds and talk...
...democratic society can hold: that life is not worth living and that all our efforts will eventually lead to pain and disappointment. The most frustrating aspect of this is that often such thought is not expressed genuinely but rather because it will shock and entertain and earn a profit...