Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airline, which turned a profit of $6.1 million in 1973, lost $9.2 million last year. Pratte could explain the losses as at least partly due to the rise in fuel costs. But last April, Elmer MacKay, a Tory Member of Parliament, revealed that one of Pratte's appointees, Marketing Vice President Yves Menard, had authorized a curious payment of $100,000 as a "consultant's fee" to one of Montreal's top travel agents. The fact that Menard had resigned under pressure two months earlier did not prevent a scandal from growing, so the Canadian government asked...
...Having made what amounts to an art-film spectacle-something few directors since Griffith and Eisenstein have brought off-Kubrick now requires that his backers go out and sell the damned thing. Because of distribution and promotion costs, the film must gross at least $30 million to make a profit. Kubrick has his own ideas about how to proceed: a tasteful ad campaign, a limited-release pattern permitting good word of mouth to build, saturation bookings timed to coincide with the Academy Award nominations that the director and studio believe are inevitable. Warner salesmen wish they had something simpler...
...puts all of Warner Bros, money "on the screen," as Kubrick says, borrowing an old trade term. He feels he has done right by himself and "done right by the people who gave me the money," presenting them with the best possible chance to make it back with a profit on their investment...
Ironically we needn't cross class lines anymore to glimpse the meaning of our pasts and of what lies in store for us. As power becomes increasingly centralized in the service of corporate profit, more of us will find ourselves doing alienating work for large employers even as doctors, even as lawyers. Ultimately we are contronted with three choices: reaching ever higher, at increasing personal cost, for influence in the structures as they are; succumbing to a decadent privatism which depends upon the structures it disdains; or finding new ways to band together with others, and perhaps to attack...
...According to testimony taken by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, about half of last year's losses involved specialized or technical schools, most of them privately owned and operated for profit. Such schools have burgeoned since FISL began, in large part because the Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which administers FISL, has allowed many of them to lend to their students directly. Although many of these "proprietary" schools do a valuable job of educating, others victimize both their students and the Government. In too many cases, a high-pressure salesman working...