Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because they are uninterested--it is because there is no organization by which to pursue student interests. Nobody has an incentive to work for anyone but themselves. The Harvard of the '70s has become a vegetable garden, turning unwitting achievers into little one-men corporations. We operate under the profit motive to maximize future profits and minimize current risk...
After years of dismal earnings, the major carriers registered a combined record $600 million profit last year, up from $343 million in 1976. Profits this year are expected by several Wall Street investment analysts to rise to the $700 million area. True, much of the recent increase has come not from flying but from plane sales, tax credits and hotel subsidiaries. Indeed, some carriers?Eastern, TWA, Northwest, Western?show declining operating profits. But the competition for passengers, especially nonbusiness travelers who make up 48% of the traffic, is certain to remain intense. So the number of low-cost fares will...
...Hollywood Lawyer Ronald Litz: "The custom in Hollywood is that you get away with as much as you can until you're caught." Litz won a $225,000 settlement from Columbia for Robert Redford and Director Sydney Pollack, who contended they had been denied their fair share of the profit from The Way We Were...
Jessica Herbert, the recently-appointed development associate of the Radcliffe College Office of Development and Alumnae Affairs, is a specialist in fund-raising for non-profit organizations and former president of the Boston Museum School's Alumni Association...
That seems a rather drastic devaluation. Kodak, which has spent more than $2 billion on research and development during the past decade, is still a prime moneymaker. In the first nine months of 1977 it earned profits of $417.3 million, down slightly from $429 million a year earlier, but Kodak's pretax operating profit is a lofty 26? of each sales dollar...