Citations:bottom line

English citations of bottom line

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• 1980, Teena Marie (lyrics and music), “I Need Your Lovin’”, in Irons in the Fire:

  I need your lovin' and that's the bottom line / I need your lovin' or just a little time

• 1988, Richard Nixon, “The Superpowers”, in 1999: Victory Without War‎^[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:

  When Gorbachev totals up the balance sheet of Soviet strengths and weaknesses, the bottom line is not encouraging. Moscow has put itself into a unique historical position: It does not have a single ally among the major powers of the world.

• 2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

  The bottom line is this - England have little or no chance of beating quality international sides if they defend as shoddily and carelessly as this, if they give possession away as cheaply as this and are as easy to get at as Kosovo made it look.

Uncountable use

• 1980, Energy Management Partnership Act of 1979: Hearing, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Supply, page 96:

  There is less and less bottom line - we are down to a point where many commercial office buildings are only realizing $1 or $2 a square foot

• 1985, “Views of Budget Proposals for Fiscal Year 1986: Hearings ...”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget, page 214:

  Because my time is short, how much bottom line do you save, after you figure out that they are paying less taxes?

• 1994, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, volume 25, numbers 3-4, page 235:

  Maybe there's something a little soulless in the on-screen version of editing - too much bottom line, something at odds with the reading culture in which an editor thrives.

• 1993, Municipal Finance Journal, volume 14, page 75:

  They may not be making much bottom line, but there is a lot of commitment and you will find, in general, that there will be donations and contributions supporting the institution.

• 2009, Edward N. Kelley, Practical Apartment Management, page 188:

  This can further reduce what little bottom line there may have been.

• 2009, Mark Blaxill, Ralph Eckardt, The Invisible Edge:

  [Mrs. Boxer] […] The bottom line is that without IP, there's very little bottom line left. Ironically, most CEOs, even in those IP-centric industries like pharmaceuticals and high tech, fail to grasp the real source of their profits.