Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refund is very expensive to run, and we cannot afford to do it," Powell said. "It is not a profit center...
...president of HSA, Harvard's multi-million dollar student-run for profit corporation--the world's largest-- Cheng has set himself up well for future employment in the business world. Past HSA managers have gone on to the nation's top business graduate schools and to work in Fortune 500 companies. Presidents of HSA are virtually guaranteed admission to the prestigious Harvard Business School...
Items on Fine's list include renewed compliancewith Federal and state non-profit tax-exemptionguidelines, the installment of a copy machine foruse by all student groups and the creation of atask force to study alternative methods fordistributing non-Harvard newspapers...
...earned $1.6 billion in the fourth quarter, bringing annual earnings to $4.9 billion, twice what the company made in 1993. TIME Detroit reporter Joe Szczesny notes that while the earnings are very good news, they are not quite what GM insiders had expected. "GM is now making an average profit of $100 a car in North America, " he says. "Chrysler is making ten times as much. GM still has a long way to go in matching the competition for efficiency...
...Gates really control the Internet? For a variety of reasons-some structural, some cultural-that may not be as easy as it seems. "Microsoft would have a better chance at controlling the weather," says Brad Templeton, president of ClariNet, which makes a nice profit selling news wire services to Internet users. The Internet, he explains, has no central network operating system that Microsoft can patent and control. Moreover, the Internet is devoted to open-that is to say, nonproprietary-software systems. A week after the Internet community discovered that the gif (Graphics Interchange Format) system used to exchange pictures over...