Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pickens, chief of Mesa Petroleum Inc., is known for his frequent attempts to seize a controlling interest in a company and then to sell-out at a profit once his threat becomes apparent. Such tactics are known as "greenmail...
Developing funding for Radcliffe's many programs is Stevens's primary responsibility. "The role of development in any non-profit organization is to maximize unrestricted funds. Our main business is to help the non-profit world stay afloat," she said...
Harvard has no policy on whether professors can profit on the sale of texts to students in their classes. The University leaves that decision to the individual instructor, according to faculty officials...
...course administrator for Moral Reasoning 22, Wera I. Hildebrand, said that the large size of the course--912 students--influenced Sandel's decision. "Sandel does not want to feel accused of assigning the book to make a profit," Hildebrand said...
Wilson said he wanted the approximately 250 students in his course to feel that he had assigned the book "for its intellectual qualities" rather than for profit...