Word: profitlessness
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...Profitless Prosperity. One of the chief offenders was Newberg, whom Colbert had groomed to succeed himself. Angry at the reports that Newberg had disregarded the ultimatum, Colbert put to work Chrysler's lawyers and auditors to make sure. When the evidence showed that Newberg was profiting from Chrysler's purchases from smaller suppliers, Colbert got the board of directors to fire him. The investigation has not stopped with Newberg, Colbert admitted last week. It could well be that Newberg is just the first and biggest offender to get caught...
...tidal bore of abstract art flows so overpoweringly these days that most critics find it profitless trying to swim against the current. But last week at the 30th Venice Biennale. 400 painters and sculptors from 33 nations exhibited some 3,000 works whose overall impression was so weird that the experts, almost to a man, rose in revolt. "It is not the world of art.'' said Turin's outraged La Stampa, "but a world of impenetrable moors and silent, sterile landscapes." Added respected Critic Leonardo Borghese, writing in Milan's Carriere della Sera: "Ridiculous, sad, terrible...
...Food production is still at the mercy of the nation's cycles of flood and drought. Huge, multipurpose economic projects start out magnificently and then gradually fall farther and farther behind schedule. The second five-year plan had to be abruptly cut back because it was creating a profitless drain on foreign exchange. "We are riding the tiger of industrialization and can't get off," said Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari. Severe restrictions on imports, and new taxes on wealth and expenditures wrung outraged cries from the business community. There were strikes and food riots from Calcutta...
...like the movement of a glacier, the progress of the Geneva talks was all but undetectable to the naked eye. If, after Herter, Couve and Lloyd returned from John Foster Dulles' funeral, the conference continued at the same profitless pace, the idea just might occur to everyone that little more could be achieved by talking to the head man himself...
...excessive profits of $10 million. Boeing President William McPherson Allen calls such a yardstick "callously fallacious." He and other planemakers argue that net worth does not reflect the greatest asset of any company: its know-how team of engineers, manufacturers and administrators. Moreover, it neglects the many profitless years of costly drawing-board development, design and prototype testing...