Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marshall R. Pihl '55, associate director of the Summer School, said yesterday Harvard's summer program made a profit last year after several years of running deficits...
That kind of collective work?with no profit, or any kind of individual reward, in prospect?made me feel that I belonged not merely in my immediate family at home, or even the big family of the village, but in something vaster and more significant: the land. It was that feeling that made me, on the way home at sunset, watch the evening scene with a rare warmth, recognizing an invisible bond of love and friendship with everything around me?smoke rolling down the valley, promising a delicious meal at the close of a village day, and perfect calm...
...what he got?though some owners, like Siwek, experienced delays getting their cars repaired because parts for Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Buick engines did not always fit the Chevy motors. The $40 million will hardly be a severe financial penalty to GM, which has earned as much as $1 billion profit in a single quarter...
...cheer for Bert Lance. First, Saudi businessman Ghaith Pharaon said he would pay $20 a share (more than 33% above the going rate) for 120,000 shares of the former Budget Director's stock in the National Bank of Georgia. The $2.4 million deal should leave a fat profit (a third of a million or so) in Lance's stocking. Then there was a gift from Wife LaBelle: a family portrait by Atlanta Artist Comer Jennings. LaBelle especially liked how Jennings painted her diamond pendant-the "broken heart," as she calls it, that Bert gave her after...
...otherwise dreary stock market. Marshall Field stock last week rose from $22.75 to $29.25 a share, still short of C.H.H.'s offer of $36. National Starch shares jumped more than 20 points in a single day and closed at $65.50; even those who bought at that price will profit by selling to Unilever at $73.50. That situation points up the big gest reason for the takeover trend: prices of many stocks have sunk so low that a cash-rich company can offer a tempting premium and still pick up corporate as sets for less money than it would need...