Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...porno peddlers who profit from ignorance and lust [April 5]. Fie on the libertines who raise phony cries of censorship. And fie on the decent folk whose self-righteous apathy has permitted this appalling advanced case of acne to creep across the face of America...
...early light is worth $1 million a year to them at night. Most industry analysts seem to think she is. For one thing, ABC executives hope that her departure from NBC'S Today show will deepen that program's recent ratings slide, to the pleasure and profit of ABC's competing Good Morning, America. NBC may well move fast to replace Walters. Some candidates: Candice Bergen, Betty Furness. Bess Myerson and Shana Alexander...
...another, her presence on the Evening News could make it one of the most profitable news programs on television (though the networks claim to lose money on their total news operations, their accounting systems make it impossible to be certain they do). Television networks can charge advertisers higher rates if a program's audience increases, and a single additional ratings point for the ABC Evening News could be worth as much as $2.7 million a year in extra ad revenue. That alone would mean a 170% profit on the Walters investment. Some television industry experts believe that Walters could...
...market, costs the oil-rich Russians just $20 a ton. Nor are the state-owned Soviet ships saddled with the interest and financing charges that can account for about half the costs of running a Western vessel. Beyond that, the Soviet merchant marine does not have to show a profit; the state can absorb losses until Western lines cut service, or even abandon unprofitable routes. If that happens, warns A.E. Lemon, director of the British & Commonwealth Shipping Co., "the Russians will be able to raise rates to whatever level they wish...
Sevendays, now being sent to former subscribers of the now defunct Ramparts, will be published weekly beginning this fall and sold through subscriptions and newstands--but without advertising. (The Institute is a non-profit operation.) The current edition runs to 32 pages of news, analysis, features, and reviews, which makes it much smaller than Time/Newsweek but leaves about the same amount of copy since there aren...