Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeannie?) The easygoing suburban blandness that Nick at Nite dines out on was owing to the fact that network TV was once the massiest mass medium ever invented. It still is, of course, but thanks to the increasing sophistication of audience-measuring "science," networks have learned they can profit by delivering smaller-niche audiences to advertisers. Which means that Seinfeld and Mad About You don't have to appeal to everyone in order to make money; they need only reach 18- to 49-year-olds with lots and lots of disposable income to spend on bmws and Nikes. It thus...
...with Meyer's other films, like "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," the main feature is one or more heroines with impossibly ample bosoms and improbable sexual appetites. Yet, like other shocking films before it, audiences voted with their wallets. The film, shot with a $76,000 budget, made a profit of $6,000,000 and brought Meyer to the attention of Twentieth-Century Fox. The film's success gave rise to legions of imitations, thereby putting a great deal more nudity and sordidness on the screen in the form of scores of low budget, low merit films...
Simpson is out an estimated $6 million to $10 million, most of which goes to his lawyers. While he has recouped a hefty amount from the sale of various O.J. products, it's still not clear whether his bout with justice will turn a profit. The question remains: Can he write off the trial as a business expense...
While intensely embarrassing, the hidden deals won't shatter Daiwa, the world's 13th largest bank (Barings ranked 474th). Its $197 billion in assets can easily absorb Iguchi's losses. Even after writing them off, Daiwa expects to report a $70 million profit for the six months that ended on Sept. 30. Yet Daiwa's 30 or so top officers, in a form of self-imposed wrist slaps, will take pay cuts of up to 30% for six months and will forgo their annual bonuses. The bank itself sold $336 million worth of real estate in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima...
...redemption money from these bins will be donated to the Charles River Watershed Association, a 30-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to the upkeep of the river," Spitzer said