Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than a mile. But it is worth waiting for a spot because, after paying a fee of $1.33, the drivers go into the used-car business. Most of the car owners are already government-sanctioned smalltime capitalists-garage proprietors, auto mechanics, private doctors-with a well-cultivated taste for profit...
Those included what was described as a confidential company report prepared by Barton outlining a system for making "special payments" out of Switzerland to British Leyland distributors and agents. Among the abuses mentioned was a practice of overbilling distributors so that they would appear to have little taxable profit; secret cash payments would then be "suitcased" to them-literally carried in satchels-or deposited in numbered bank accounts in Switzerland or Liechtenstein...
...once a society does choose a film, other complications arise. Bargaining with film distributors to get a price which will leave room for profit requires a good deal of knowledge and a little bit of trickery. Hitchcock films generally cost about $50, while $100 will rent an old favorite. But prices vary with the season, and Halloween has a way of making Frankenstein much more expensive. A recent movie costs still more: companies demand a percentage of the profits, sometimes as much as 80 or 95 per cent on films as popular as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. When...
...diplomats insist that there is no specific Carter plan, although the Israeli outline is generally correct. From Jerusalem's viewpoint, the scenario has several flaws. First of all, Israel sees no profit in recognizing the P.L.O. or being recognized by it. Second, Israel will under no circumstances recognize an independent state on the West Bank, although it would accept some kind of Palestinian homeland federated with Jordan. Third, Israel considers Jerusalem nonnegotiable, and will never return to the "indefensible" 1967 borders along the Golan Heights and in Sinai. Says a spokesman: "There must be no difference between our political...
...lower than they were before the 1974 spiral started. Amstar, the leading U.S. refiner, suffered the largest 1976 sales decline of any company on the FORTUNE 500 list; its revenues fell almost 34%, to $1.1 billion. At that, refiners are lucky; they have continued to make a profit ($43 million for Amstar last year) because their cost of buying raw sugar has fallen as fast as the price at which they sell the refined product. Growers in the U.S. and abroad are losing money. Moans Cane Grower J.R. Roane: "Louisiana will be out of business in another two years...