Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some think the tax on liquor is too low. "Heavier taxes make heavy drinkers more responsible for what they do," said George Hacker, director of alcohol policies for the Center for Science in Public Interest, a non-profit health advocacy group...
...make money in South Africa today is not just to profit from the economic opportunities created by institutionalized racism, but perhaps worse, is to contribute to the continued vitality of a regime of state terror. The movement urging the disinvestment of American capital from South Africa, and divestment from corporations that continue to participate in the apartheid economy, was not initiated in the Adams pool, or after a Quincy bong-a-thon. All the legitimate voices of the South African liberation struggle: Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress, Archbishop Huddlestone and Rev. Carstons...
...that there is a civil war in progress in South Africa. Continued investment in South Africa is an act of collaboration with the police brutality against children in Soweto and with starvation in the Homelands, without which there would be fewer frightened job-hungry people, and less chance to profit...
...than one day's interest on the ballooning debt of the nation's farmers, which is currently $213 billion and climbing. "Willie can sing and pluck all night long," says Don Murphy, who sold his 240-acre farm in Henry, Ill., last year because he could not turn a profit. "But he's not going to make much headway with farm debt. We're in too deep...
...Confused? In need of guidance? To aide the crowds that mill around Harvard every day, Cambridge has constructed its answer to the Johnston Gate Guardhouse: a Disneyland-style information booth in the heart of Harvard Square. The $35,000 pink and blue structure, funded and operated by a non-profit group called Cambridge Discovery, is primarily aimed at helping tourists with their information needs...