Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desktop fax came in with the yuppies, with greed, with quick-profit materialism. They pushed courier services and Federal Express overnight delivery almost out of the market...
When fax machines became "affordable"--current prices range from $1000 to $6000--overnight mail was apt to lose business. But who could have predicted how many others would profit from...
...speculation on Wall Street is the possibility that Japan's tighter credit will trigger a major slide in the Tokyo market, which stands at 36,874, up from 13,000 in late 1985. Some Wall Street brokerage firms recently began selling a new product: warrants that allow investors to profit if the Tokyo market falls. But most investors do not fear a crash so much as a long, stubborn decline. If the January mood persists, the long-running bull market will go out not with a bang but with a long, drawn-out whimper...
...even Sykes says that Harvard academics have several reasons to use their own books in courses, explaining that profit is an unlikely motive in most cases...
...once dubbed the "Mouth of the South." The raffish and unpredictable outsider has become an industry leader, and the critics who once forecast his demise have for now been silenced. The Turner Broadcasting System, which three years ago was close to collapsing in debt, showed an operating profit for the first nine months of 1989, the first time it has emerged from the red since 1985. Turner, meanwhile, has become an advocate for a range of liberal causes. In an industry in which executives are careful to keep political views to themselves (except perhaps for flag waving during Bicentennial celebrations...