Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some of his rivals whisper about Dole's age or electability, Gramm challenges Dole head on, blasting him as too willing to compromise on health care, welfare, abortion and tax cuts. As long as the race can be defined as a referendum on red ink, Gramm believes he will profit and Dole will suffer. "It's becoming clear to American voters that if they want a balanced budget, they are going to have to elect a President who is committed to it," he told TIME. Late last week, Gramm struck again: after Bill Clinton announced in his Thursday press conference...
...course Sun fully expects its profitless approach to turn a profit in the end. More than half the computer servers on the Internet are Sun machines; anything that increases Internet traffic (as Java surely will) is bound to add to Sun's bottom line. Even more interesting, from a business perspective, is the so-called intranet--the collection of networks that connect computers withincorporations--that both Sun and Microsoft have targeted as a rich area for growth. To help head off its chief competitor, Sun last week launched a new JavaSoft division, run by Alan Baratz, a former IBM executive...
Health Net collects premium dollars from employers and reserves money for its own profit, salaries, bonuses, marketing and administrative costs, as well as for two special reserve pools to pay for AIDS care and all transplants, including bone-marrow transplants. Last year alone it collected over $2 billion in monthly payments from 1.2 million subscribers...
...Hasan offered to acquire Health Net, but Greaves wasn't interested. He was about to convert Health Net into a for-profit company, a process that under California law required Health Net to establish an independent, nonprofit foundation and fund it with an amount equal to the company's fair market value--a way of paying back the state for all the taxes the company had avoided as a nonprofit. Conversion would pave the way for going public. In a tactical maneuver, Dr. Hasan filed a lawsuit to block the conversion, charging that Greaves had undervalued the company...
...rooted in right principles and capable of speaking a truth that goes beyond the mere facts of the Civil War. If we are always to be "enemy" and "victor" with no hope of transcending those designations that kill and divide, then it appears that we can take no profit from tragedy and that the future will always be held hostage to the past. A memorial is not merely an artifact of the past. By its very nature it is a key to the future, a means of moving on from beyond the shadows of the past. Not only does...