Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be nothing compared with what we could see," warns First Amendment Lawyer Abrams. The prospect of Reagan appointees is not reassuring on this score. The President has said that the publication of the Pentagon papers was "no different from receiving stolen property and selling it for a profit...
Mondale hecklers offend the voters' sense of fairness; the size of Reagan's lead triggers "a perverse feeling in people"; and "media that profit from heightened interest in a contest" play up "the first reports of narrowing gaps in the polls," helping to make it a closer race...
...with almost no loss in renewal rate; more aggressive pursuit of national advertising for liquor, tobacco, automobiles and other consumer products; upgraded paper and a color cover to be more attractive on the newsstand. Next year Peretz projects achieving the all but unthinkable for an opinion magazine: a small profit...
...compute what percent rebate to offer members, the Coop called in auditors to total its 1983-84 profits. The directors of the Harvard Cooperative Society then decided what percentage of profit to return to members. Argeros said this year's rebate represents a 100% return on the eligible profit from member sales...
These Harvard personnel have visited Central America in the past year as members of a group called the Faculty for Human Rights in El Salvador and Central America. The non-profit, California-based organization consists of faculty members in universities across the country who are concerned with human rights and U.S. policy in the region. Among its directors are Thomas Professor of divinity Harvey G. Cox Jr. and Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack...