Word: profited
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...benefits of the GATT have been widely acknowledged. It will help to reinvigorate a stagnant global economy. This translates into a profit of about $120 billion, one half of one percent of today's gross world product. Since its inception, the GATT has proved remarkably successful in orchestrating the reduction of world tariff rates, which have fallen from an average of 40 percent in 1947, to four percent today...
...Chicago-based Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, a private, not-for-profit organization, accredited UHS in 1992. The health service received generally high ratings in the accreditation report, although commission spokesperson Stephen L. Davidow says the report also identified "one or more areas" in which UHS care was sub-standard...
When Ira Magaziner was still only a multimillionaire management consultant, General Electric asked him to figure out how to wring a profit from its giant TV-manufacturing unit. Many a hired gun might have sized up the problem by looking at production flow charts or pricing tables. Not Magaziner. He hit the shop floor and began taking apart TV sets with his bare hands, assessing the cost of the components, piece by piece. His conclusion: GE's profit margins could be found not in producing the set's electronic components but in building its plastic-and-wood casing and picture...
McNeal also said the recent trend in healthy eating habits has contributed to the grill's steady profit losses in the past few years and that this year, the grill's managers are barely breaking even. A reopening next year is still tentative...
...would also profit by providing concessions for the tens of thousands who would attend. The strenuous activity endemic to a Dead concert--dancing and the intake of substances both legal and illegal--tends to induce a huge collective hunger. The U.C., if equipped properly, could meet and profit from this demand for food. And Dead-heads' tastes are simple. They only desire plenty of peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, bagels with cream cheese, and lots of orange juice; they're here to listen, not to eat. With a jumbo-sized trip to the supermarket and a small amount of preparation...