Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blacks who try to organize against their employers or against the state can be sent back to the homeland without a hearing, their pass rescinded. It is this system that keeps wages in South Africa for semi-and unskilled labor so low that American companies investing there receive a profit rate of almost 20 per cent overall and 60 percent in some areas of industry...
...vital problem of increasing production to feed and support China's ever growing population (around 850 million), the moderates stressed practical approaches, including such "revisionist" devices as higher wages for more work and the notion that each state enterprise should be run efficiently enough to produce a profit. Recognizing the need for high technology in areas like oil production, computers and aircraft, the moderates have not hesitated to buy some goods from foreign countries-a policy the radicals derided as the "worship of things foreign." "In our Socialist state," said one article, "the development of production does not rely...
...probably only an outsider could, he consolidated some unprofitable operations, sold off others (including the then losing New York Yankees), and imposed rigid cost controls, all of which trimmed a case of middle-age corporate spread at CBS and led the company to 17 straight quarters of high profit. But some executives bridled at what they considered Taylor's arrogance, which apparently grew as quickly as the company's earnings. It is said that Taylor once stormed up to a man using a telephone booth in Washington and shouted at him to get out, announcing, "I am president...
...stick around to lift ABC's evening news Niel sen rating by a single point-a reasonable prospect-the network can hike its rates for commercial spots on the show by some $2,000 a minute, or $2 million a year-which would yield ABC a nice 100% profit on its Walters investment...
Sheiman declined to disclose details of the system, but he said it gave participants roughly a 60 per cent chance of breaking even or turning a profit. He estimated the chance of losing the entire pool in the lottery as "less than one per cent...