Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...having it particularly rough. Its largest paper, the Los Angeles Times, has suffered through the hard economic times and weak advertising climate that have gripped Southern California since the early 1990s. And New York Newsday, one of four major papers in a city that many say can profitably support only two, had been gushing red ink -- as much as $100 million since its founding a decade ago. Times Mirror's profit margin has been 9% to 10%, well below the industry average. And Times Mirror stock has floundered, falling from $53 a share in 1987 to $24 before the Newsday...
...first time a link between Whitewater and James Blair, another old Arkansas friend of the Clintons'. Back in 1993, Americans had yet to discover that in the late 1970s, Hillary Clinton, following Blair's advice, had turned a $1,000 investment in the commodities market into a $100,000 profit. Making public in 1993 that Blair helped sell the Clintons' stake in Whitewater might have led reporters to Mrs. Clinton's commodities trading. When that story broke last year, commodities experts raised questions about how Mrs. Clinton could have invested so heavily without the legally required collateral. The issue still...
...Cali cartel now handles 80% of the world's cocaine traffic, with a $7 billion gross last year in the U.S. alone. "This is probably the biggest organized-crime syndicate there has ever been," says Thomas Constantine, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "For their impact, profit and control, they're bigger than the Mafia in the U.S. ever was." Santacruz lived as a cocaine baron should, throwing lavish birthday parties for his children, buying ranches and cavorting with his mistresses...
Nothing is more morbidly intriguing, more chillingly compelling than an account of a malfunctioning mind, as medical writers have learned to their great profit. The victims of mental disease or brain damage are fascinating, not simply as exhibits in a neurological sideshow but also as stark demonstrations of how fragile reality can be. Most people agree, within limits, on the objective character of the world around them. Yet while the victims of mental disorders are certainly conscious and aware, their worlds are profoundly different from those of most of us. What can it possibly feel like, we wonder, to live...
...Association has been slapped with the lowest possible credit rating by Dun & Bradstreet, a major credit-rating agency. The report of the gun lobby's failing financial strength and credit worthiness shows, "an organization that has dug itself a deep hole," according to accountant James Nesbitt, who audits non-profit groups. Following other reports that the NRA has run in the red since 1991 with a cumulative deficit of some $60 million, at least one NRA contractor is reviewing Dun & Bradstreet's four-page evaluation. Other banks and contractors might do the same, which according to Nesbitt, might curtail...