Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that are racing to Eastern Europe could take a lesson from the patience shown by Minneapolis-based Control Data, which since 1973 has built disk drives and other computer products in Romania (pop. 23 million). The joint venture with a Romanian company, which took five years to turn a profit, exports half its output to the West. "The biggest problem was the lack of the business environment that we in the West are used to," recalls Helmut Koller, Control Data's marketing director for Eastern Europe. "We basically had to create our own suppliers...
Picking up where Robocop left off, Peter Weller returns as Alex Murphy, a former Detroit supercop killed in the line of duty and brought back to life as a crime-fighting cyborg ("half man, half machine--all cop") by Omni Consumer Products (OCP), an intensely profit-driven private conglomerate which runs the police department...
...cutter sees the toll that greed has exacted from the land. But it was not so apparent early in his career. "There was tremendous waste in those days," he recalls. "Profit was the name of the game. We thought we would never run out of timber. We started way too late on reforestation." Now he recognizes the need to protect nature from man. "We've only got this one old earth," he says, "and we better take care of it. I most certainly do not think 'environmentalist' is a dirty word. Anybody who isn't one has his head...
...jewels. He is trying to sell the Trump Shuttle airline, but his timing is unlucky. Reason: the rival Pan Am shuttle is up for sale as well. Because the Trump Shuttle has failed to dominate the market as he had hoped, Trump is unlikely to sell it at a profit. And real-estate agents in Palm Beach say Trump has been offering Mar-a-Lago, his 118-room Palm Beach estate, for an asking price of $30 million...
...Great White Way -- including many more new dramas and a much more varied range of revivals -- and commonly does them better. In recent years British superiority even extended to Broadway's signature genre, the musical. As a succession of London hits was packed up for export (and runaway profit), Broadway started to seem like just an early stop on the international touring circuit...