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...branch in downtown Boston. The store is located in the same building where a new Harvard Club of Boston exists and is designed to serve the alumni (one of the groups the Coop has served since 1898) and their needs. The downtown Boston store, because of the absence of profitless textbook sales, provides a higher margin of profit and benefits everybody's rebate...
First Chicago's board concluded that the executive storm had become a profitless rain dance. The board took just an hour and a half to decide on firing both executives. Says Executive Committee Chairman Ben Heineman, president of Northwest Industries: "It was all clean, simple and painful...
Hell as well as Heaven. Absent is a brooding Satan or a slick Beelzebub to direct the traffic of the damned. Elkin's Hell is an anarchic ghetto, "the ultimate inner city" in perpetual and agonizing meltdown. "Its stinking sulfurous streets were unsafe," he writes. "Pointless, profitless muggings were commonplace; joyless rape that punished its victims and offered no relief to the perpetrator. Everything was contagious, cancer as common as a cold, plague the quotidian. There was stomachache, headache, toothache, earache. There was angina and indigestion and painful third-degree burning itch. Nerves like a hideous body hair grew...
...private sector attempts not only to pass the tax costs of public services onto working people, but also to restrain costs by cutting down on profitless social services such as welfare and unemployment insurance. Monopoly capital is better prepared to pass streamlined social welfare costs along, and has historically been ready to accept moderate expenses in order to maintain a stable work force. But smaller, more competitive capital continually presses for cuts in social welfare spending...
...definitive The Art of Golf recognized the strengths of the unorthodox stylist: "Do I maintain, the reader may ask, that everyone ought to have the same style? By no means; on the contrary, for you or me to model ourselves on a champion is about as profitless as to copy out Hamlet in the hope of becoming Shakespeare...