Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows that Edison could stand to lose the same millions that MASCO hopes to gain if the institutions are allowed to drop their accounts and build their own power plant. And Edison, having tax problems itself with the city, is infuriated by the tax package that the non-profit institutions are negotiating in which MASCO would make in-lieu-of-tax payments of about $1.5 million annually to Boston. Edison claims it would have to pay at least three times that to the city just to deliver the same power...
...requirements because the proposals reduced the chances that an outside company or individual would attempt to gain control of a corporation's stock by buying out shareholders at a price above the market value. The banks, quite simply, oppose the idea of giving up a chance to make extra profit from their stock. They also say that these two types of proposals help to entrench managements and make it more difficult for shareholders to bring about changes in managements they consider irresponsible...
...foundation and industry fund-raising attempts are difficult. Industries doing business with the Soviet Union, the main recipients of center requests for support, may listen politely to arguments about needed information on Russia that only the center can provide. But corporate executives may not want to risk their profit lines by supporting an institution whose members have been labelled "bourgeois falsifiers of history" by Izvestia...
...also the foundation of a family empire established by A.E. Owen in 1893 that now includes some 20 companies in seven countries. The Darlaston plant alone accounted for more than $56 million in sales last year; the group as a whole grossed some $200 million, but made a pretax profit of only $7 million...
...life of me why there is no common interest. Maximum efficiency is good for both management and the unions because it produces greater profit. By all means let's argue how much of that profit is distributed to the work force, but for goodness' sake let's produce. The trade unions must accept, with all the power they have, some responsibility...