Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ironically, the Japanese press is largely owned by wealthy conservatives such as Mainichi's Chikao Honda, Yomiuri's Matsutaro Shoriki, and Asahi's Nagataka Murayama, who secretly sympathize with Kishi and the Conservative cause. But they are journalistic eunuchs, interested mainly in profit, who have literally surrendered their papers to the hundreds of young liberal "intellectuals" in Japanese newsrooms. Espousing no cause but that of full-throated antagonism to the party in power, these leftists not only incite to riot but often themselves join the rioters. Last week, when a part of the mob broke...
...anything, the second buy was a better bargain than the first. The Denver Post has been barely scraping by on the balance sheet, but the three Springfield papers-the morning Union (circ. 80,968), the evening News (99,998) and the Sunday Republican (112,352)-produce a cool net profit of $1,000,000 a year...
...styling, although Cadillac will stick with its fins. The new look will feature rolled edges and soft curves, with the trend away from bigness and sharp-flaring, winglike fenders. The public is expected to be pleased-but the industry also has its own economy in mind. Detroit makes less profit on the compacts than on standard-size cars, and sells fewer additional gadgets on them. By reducing the big cars in size, and using fewer materials in them, Detroit hopes to add to its profits...
...fenced into the U.S. market. They argue that the move overseas is one of the new and unavoidable realities of a growing free-trade world market-and that the trend is bound to continue. To keep the shift abroad in proper balance-so that customer, company and labor all profit by it-the U.S. needs to employ aggressive salesmanship, product development and efficiency that will make more and more U.S. products attractive to overseas buyers...
...real villains of the novel are the unscrupulous distillers-who make cheap whisky by adding prune juice to grain neutral spirits-and the temperance wowsers. The author writes of these malefactors with great eloquence and contempt, accusing the former of betraying mankind for profit and the latter of sexual irregularities...