Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earn up to $500,000. Craft union wages are up 15% over last year. Even a middling movie can end up costing $6 million, which makes it a gamble: such a movie generally must gross $18 million before it covers overhead and distribution costs and even begins returning a profit. "The numbers are incredible," says Mike Medavoy, United Artists' production chief. "I sometimes wonder about the logic...
...almost identical to those of their foreign competitors-are being hurt by the rising cost of their exports. Grundig AG, a consumer electronics maker already fighting cheap Japanese products, reports a drastic drop in sales to Britain and Italy. BASF, the giant chemicals producer, is paring prices and profit margins to hold its international markets...
...plan will not be easy. Also, he is involved in a damaging dispute with Arab investors. In 1974 the Kuwait Investment Co. hired Sea Pines Co. to oversee a planned $200 million development on Kiawah Island, S.C. Fraser had counted heavily on receiving up to $300,000 annually in profits from the project for the next two decades. But last month the Kuwaitis abruptly canceled the contract and sued Sea Pines for $1.3 million, claiming overcharges. Sea Pines is countersuing for $13.6 million, asserting that the Kuwaitis used Sea Pines' reputation to get the Kiawah Island project...
...whole summer and graze them on at least 1¼acres of lawn that is free of chemicals. The fee: $7.80 per sheep per season. That barely covers insurance on the animals. But Anette and her partners. Mother Doris, 48, and Brother Tom, 18, expect to make a sizable profit in the fall by taking back the sheep-by then nicely fattened-and selling them to butchers and breeders...
...bind. To Flesh they give some kind of saving shape to the amorphous idea and energy of America. As he visits these franchises in his baby-blue Cadillac, he can hear them "speaking some Esperanto of simple need." His understanding of that need turns him into a poet of profit and loss. He knows, for example, how to turn a dollar from "the jetsam set," those people who lust for cut-rate, damaged merchandise: "Bang the canned goods, put little holes in the shirttails," he tells the manager of his Railroad Salvage store. "Dent the toasters, nick the toys. Give...