Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...philanthropic organization allegedly obtained funding for donations, including those given to the B-school, from other high-profile charities and non-profit organizations by telling them that their contributions would be doubled in six months by unnamed wealthy donors, the Herald reported...
...widely respected head of Nickelodeon, who was hired away by Disney last month. Others cited disappointing financial results at Blockbuster; cash flow fell short of projections last year, as the video chain was faced with aggressive discounting by competitors. Early this month several Wall Street analysts lowered their profit estimates for the company...
...megadeal might, like her stage show, be partly smoke and mirrors. Record contracts, like movie deals, are often larded with clauses and subclauses that make interpreting the value of a deal a brain-wilting affair, as mystifying as the recent reports that Forrest Gump hasn't turned a profit. "When you read the fine print, you find lots of changes," says record-industry attorney Don Engel. "Some of these contracts are 80 to 100 pages. There are various ways a record company makes a $60 million deal worth $20 million or $30 million." For example, many contracts come with performance...
...acquired by Sun Microsystems, which makes workstations and Internet servers. Apple, the upstart company that made computers "user friendly" to millions of ordinary people has had an unenviable year, culminating with a loss of $69 million during the critical Christmas fourth quarter, while IBM was showing a 41 percent profit for the same period, that caused its stock to drop 10 percent. "Apple Chief Executive Michael Spindler is going to look more and more like the little boy with the finger in the dike if he tries to stop a merger or takeover," says TIME's David Jackson. "Despite Markkula...
Coming Feb. 1, if you order toll free now: O.J.'s own, never-heard-or-seen-before, for-profit, and unsworn, video explanation of his side of the sensational murder trial. A boycott of the $29.95 tape is already under way, and even O.J.'s interviewer admits some of the celebrity's explanations "may not fit very well...