Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good management requires the ability-and willingness-to profit by a rival's example. Thus, after watching Pan American build its subsidiary chain of Inter-Continental Hotels into a highly profitable operation, Trans World Airlines decided to take similar care of its own globetrotting passengers. Last week TWA President Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. and Conrad N. Hilton, chairman and president of Hilton International Co., announced that they had reached a preliminary merger agreement...
...child. The costs run from $1,000 to $2,000; the adoptive parents usually pay the mother's hospital bills, plus a lawyer's fees for drawing up legal adoption papers. "Independent placement" is not illegal in most states as long as no baby broker receives a profit for arranging the deal, but it can produce painful complications. If, as often happens, the natural mother knows who the new parents are, she can subsequently turn up and try to reclaim her child...
Builders and small shopkeepers are the only significant urban groups that have not been nationalized. In Damascus and Aleppo, dozens of half-completed grey buildings stand forlornly in their wooden scaffolds, abandoned by builders who stopped construction because unrealistic rent controls would deny them profit. Though 90% of all "feudalist" land has been confiscated, the government so far has allocated only 20% to farmers...
Incidentally, O'Connor should have gotten rid of the two party hacks, Edso and Walshie, who float, without any apparent purpose, through the novel. O'Connor's main characters are witty enough and these two grotesques merely detract from the book. I suspect some profit minded editor at Atlantic-Little Brown urged O'Connor to thread them through All in the Family as a guarantee of high sales...
Radcliffe, which sent 101 girls into the job market (more than a third of the class), also concentrated on service jobs. The Peace Corps, Volunteer Teachers for Africa, National Teachers' Corps, and non-profit businesses attracted almost 20 per cent of those who are working. Non-scientific research was the second most popular field (18 percent), followed by teaching and communications (mostly publishing), with 14 per cent each...