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...said that any organization which provided such limited information to donors would never raise money in an actual non-profit setting...
...think that Americans are indifferent to the obscene amounts of money that companies like Halliburton are making in Iraq with no-bid contracts. Of course we are concerned about terrorism, but that doesn't mean we're not frustrated by seeing the Halliburtons of the country make a profit from American taxpayers. Woe to those politicians who continue to underestimate the intelligence and awareness of the 2004 voter. JANE VINSON-KAFURA Lac du Flambeau...
...there on the track, I'm fearless," he says. Fearlessness has been a useful asset for Hori. As executive chief engineer responsible for the gas-electric hybrid Prius, he spent years battling the idea that environmentally friendly cars would never appeal to consumers or make a profit. Today he stands proudly on the wreckage of that conventional wisdom, having helped create the first eco-car to decisively leave the drawing board and storm the streets of suburbia. More than 110,000 units have been sold worldwide since the first-generation Prius was introduced in Japan in 1997. "Our challenge...
That's remarkable compared with minuscule profit growth in 2002 and a 17% decline in 2001. But investors shouldn't focus merely on the bottom line. They need to look beyond the numbers on the balance sheet to assess the quality of earnings and determine whether a company's profitability is sustainable...
...trying to score tickets to take his girlfriend to The Lion King. Frustration led to innovation after Baker figured out the math of the secondary market and turned it into a business. StubHub moved an estimated $60 million worth of tickets in 2003 and also turned its first profit. "StubHub's concept centralizes a big, fragmented market," says David Kirsch, a University of Maryland business professor who studies both the suckers and the survivors of the dotcom era. "It's a company I'd take...