Word: nonprofitable
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...these food police who would tell us so forcefully what to eat and drink? Perhaps the best known--and best behaved--is the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington. The CSPI earned its biggest headlines for its 1994 expose of movie-theater popcorn, a study that revealed the supposedly healthy snack to be swollen with calories and swimming in fat. Dieters were stunned, and many movie houses quickly switched to lighter oils in their popping machines--earning the CSPI kudos...
...campaign's effects can already be seen in some areas on campus. Campaign money has helped establish and support academic centers including the Hauser Center for the Study of Nonprofit Organizations, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Carr Center for Human Rights. Campaign-funded renovations include Widener Library and the Barker Center...
Once an accomplished speed skier, Skakel is amiable, a faithful member of Alcoholics Anonymous and an increasingly devout Catholic. He worked as a driver in Ted Kennedy's re-election campaign in 1994, then took a similar job with cousin Michael Kennedy's nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. In 1997, however, Skakel talked to police about his cousin's affair with a 15-year-old babysitter. (Michael died in a 1997 skiing accident.) Soon after, Skakel moved from Massachusetts into the Florida house owned by his father in an expensive gated community. Still, Robert Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times...
...What Judith brought was legal experience, experience with government and Washington, where Richard is a successful businessman, very successful in the corporate and the nonprofit world," said Joe Wrinn, University spokesperson. "Those are skills that are important in the governance of the University...
While the areas are already federal lands, Clinton's pronouncement will help keep them pristine by banning activities such as mining and logging that are commonly allowed on government property throughout the West. The news was met with glee from the environmental nonprofit sector, and with fierce grumbling from Arizona's anti-establishment ranching and mining contingent. Eager to supplement his list of environmental accomplishments, the President used Teddy Roosevelt's 1906 Antiquities Act to create the monuments - a move that enabled him to bypass Congress and a potentially messy battle with Republicans eager to protect ranching and mining interests...