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...THAT DOES NOT excuse the University from looking for less dramatic, more subtle ways to fight tuition increases and to provide students more for their money. Morvay's salary paid for his $700,000 financial-aid find, and the seed sowed for Abernathy & company's energy study should reap many millions of dollars in savings in the next few decades. Financially, the University can afford to finance future deficit budgets by announcing more years of 13.2-per-cent tuition increases. Ethically, Mom, Dad, and Johnny deserve more than a term bill stamped with caveat emptor...
...make a $2,500 profit if the interest rate was 8% when he bought the contract and 7% when it came due. Conversely, he would lose money if the rate went up. Similarly, an investor holding a one-month contract to buy 125,000 German marks at 56? would reap a $1,250 profit if the value of marks rose to 57?; he would lose if marks fell below...
...flocking to put their money into banks that pay the highest interest rates. While the economy remains tenuously balanced, Martínez de Hoz told TIME'S Buenos Aires bureau chief George Russell: "We never expected quick results, but in the '80s we are going to reap the fruits of all our measures...
Dedicated Detroit automen have learned a single purpose in life: to design, build and sell cars that will reap the highest return on the company's investment. Profits traditionally have come from volume and from trading customers up to larger, more expensive "prestige" models. Traditionally a Cadillac cost several hundred dollars more to make than a Chevrolet, but it returned GM a profit of several thousand dollars more. Detroit denies that it rejects new ideas because they are "not invented here," but the industry has been slow to adopt such innovations as disc brakes and radial tires, both extensively...
...hundred years ago. Japan puts pressure for a continued greater supply of oil on Exxon, which puts pressure on the president to reduce its obligations to the domestic market, and he in turn pulls the necessary strings in Washington to allow the company to sell where it can reap the greatest profits. The American government, Barnet writes, is controlled by businesses to a much greater extent than the public wants to believe...