Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teacher displayed a picture of a Marubeni executive in the classroom, labeling it "dangerous villain." Some wives of Marubeni workers have taken to shopping at night to avoid the cold stares of neighbors. Perhaps most insulting of all, Tokyo's Crown Record Company is trying to profit from Marubeni's misfortune. Next month it will release a pop-rock single that parodies the Lockheed payoff. Title: Peanut Song...
...work with Ocean Steamship convinced me that insurance people were less than imaginative when assigning rates," Pyle says now. And for the health plan, which experienced a $150,000 malpractice insurance hike in one year despite no comparative increase in the number of malpractice suits, a private non-profit insurance company was just what was needed...
...profit motive is the catalyst of our free-enterprise system. It "leads us into temptation," but the system corrects itself. Let's not knock "the goose that laid the golden egg" too hard, or we will end up with a dead goose on our hands...
...vote of noconfidence, he could wait until 1979. By that time, predicts one of his senior Cabinet members, the recovery of the economy should bring Scottish voters back into the Labor fold. It would not be the first time that the waiting game turned to Harold Wilson's profit...
...combination of higher oil prices, recession and consumers' lack of confidence depressed industry output 22%, to 2.8 million cars. Volkswagen lost $312.5 million, and German Ford $68.3 million; General Motors' Opel subsidiary, thanks to nimble financial management, was able to stay in the black with a profit of $2.4 million on sales of $1.8 billion. "The big producers were all stuck with high breakeven points [largely because of high labor costs and excess plant capacity] when the recession struck," says Lutz, who moved to Ford from Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in 1974. "Now the arithmetic is coming right...