Word: profitted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York City is a tough town for newspaper competition, but an upstart called Street News has a lot going for it. The monthly newspaper features writers such as pop stars Patti LaBelle and Gloria Estefan, and ads from Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Most important, the non-profit Street News has a highly motivated, 50-member sales staff: homeless people who work strictly on commission. To apply for the job, "you don't even need clean clothes," says SN editor Hutchinson Persons, a rock musician and founder of a coalition to help the homeless...
Despite contract disputes that delayed renovations at the Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks research facility in Washington, D.C., the non-profit center celebrated the opening of its new gallery Thursday night, five months after it was expected to be completed...
...dispute erupted in September, when Sony recruited Guber and Peters to head Columbia for $2.75 million in annual salaries plus profit-sharing bonuses. Sony also agreed to pay $200 million for Guber-Peters Entertainment, which the two men operate. Warner Bros. responded with a $1 billion suit against Sony for inducing Guber and Peters to break their Warner contract. Said Ed Atorino, who follows the entertainment industry for the Wall Street firm Salomon Bros.: "Sony didn't read the fine print. Warner made them...
...news coverage is just about the most profitable thing a station can do, in part because production costs typically are less than half those of entertainment shows. And since news stories can be used repeatedly on broadcasts throughout the day, stations can sell more advertising time a minute of material, further increasing their profit margins. Moreover, many advertisers will pay premium rates to run their commercials during news shows because such programs generally attract consumers with higher average incomes...
...FICA tax is unfair not only to workers, but to their employers as well. Every business must match the FICA contributions of the workers on their payrolls, whether or not it makes a profit. So when profits are down, the incentive is all the greater to lay off workers...