Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ibiza, a picturesque Spanish island, where the forger has given up his life of crime for a jolly semi-retirement. (He no longer sells his fakes--Picassos, Modiglianis, Matisses and Van Dongen--but still occupies a villa provided by an art dealer who has turned a handsome middleman's profit on deHory's imitations...
Daley's Chicago worked for those who like to drive, and for the building contractors who profit from expressway construction. But it didn't work for the ethnic neighborhoods uprooted by his pet projects. Hizzoner didn't have much sympathy for citizens who prefer public transportation--a mess in the city...
...blanket the nation with small stores in new shopping centers; he crammed them with radio merchandise and backed them with intensive advertising. Most important, Tandy devised an incentive system under which store managers (average age: 25) earn low salaries but can make up to $30,000 a year through profit sharing and bonuses tied to sales. "I want people who live for and will die for this work," says Tandy, who talks with a kind of cultivated Texas swagger. "If they don't want to do that, then beat it. Let them work for Sears." The system has produced managers...
Bill Dillon & Company, an investment firm founded and run by Harvard undergraduates, earned a $17,000 profit last year, its first year of operation...
...student client said, "I'm very happy about my business with the company. Last month, my investment made a 4 per cent profit...