Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since the cost of making an hour-long 16mm sound film is close to $15,000, Backus says that the film society has applied for money from the Undergraduate Council and the Office of the Arts to defray the costs. He adds that the club hopes for "pure profit" from the screenings in the Science Center...
Cultural Survival Inc., a non-profit organization, was founded in 1972 by Professor of Anthropology David Maybury-Lewis and other Harvard social scientists concerned about the fate of tribal peoples and ethnic minorities...
...HREC has sort of an entrepreneurial flavor," Seltzer says, "although it's a non-profit organization and none of us are getting paid...
...only a vast effort by the industries that profit from the chemicals can get the waste mess under control. That would undoubtedly mean added costs passed on to the consumer, but the basic fact is that the effort must be made. Wondrous chemical potions have been a great aid to mankind, easing pain, alleviating disease, prolonging life, spurring food production and serving as the catalyst for countless useful products. But once discarded, many of these concoctions, or their by-products, turn killer, and the U.S. has no choice but to curb their lethal ways...
...Still, the Corps is a young outfit that needs the work. Jim, Ned, Alex and Richard are equal partners on an honor system that requires each to dock his pay if he does not think he has done his share. They allot themselves $14 an hour and split whatever profit is left over at the end of the project. In this case it amounts to only $3,000 out of a contracted price of $146,000. The Souweines seem to have got the better of the deal, but not without causing resentment. Part of the problem is that the contractors...