Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...administration more professional and more competent. There are signs of a rosy economic future filled with jobs and tax dollars for a city that was hit hard by the southward industrial exodus. Tenants, once strained by rising rents, are protected by rent control, and landlords, increasingly, are guaranteed fair profit. Even the thorny problem of desegration seems to have been handled smoothly...
...century, most of the city's territory had been developed, and the residents had noticed that Harvard occupied a lot of land, which could neither be used for factories nor taxed. Harvard knew its non-profit status was vital and tried to discourage the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from moving across the river from its Boston home, fearing that the new school would focus attention on the property tax issue and endanger Harvard's exemption. But MIT still moved--in 1916, with the president and trustees aboard the good ship Bucentaur, it ceremonially crossed the Charles into Cambridge...
...administration more professional and more competent. There are signs of a rosy economic future filled with jobs and tax dollars for a city that was hard hit by the southward industrial exodus. Tenants, once strained by rising rents, are protected by rent control, and landlords, increasingly, are guaranteed fair profit. Even the thorny problem of desegregation seems to have been handled smoothly...
...loans totaling $1 billion. These are stopgap measures. Polish economists agree that further belt tightening and a program of profound economic reform will both be necessary. One proposal: decentralization of economic decision making so as to give plant managers more responsibility. This will even include the introduction of a profit motive. Most experts also believe that the pricing system will have to be made more responsive to supply and demand. However, the Polish workers have resisted that reform ever since 1970. Would Polish workers accept such policies? Some opposition figures, like Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron, respond that the workers will...
...belong as a respectable sport in this country . . . I think it's a black day . . . There is no American Dream. It's a hype, an elusive nothing." A hyperactive executive regards zero growth as the sin of sloth: "If we don't grow and get more profit, there isn't more money for raises . . . 'Enough money' is always a little bit more than you have. There's never enough of anything...