Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiations between McLean and three corporations come in the wake of a failed attempt last fall to sell the Belmont-based psychiatric facility to the largest for-profit health care company in the world. Hospital Corporation of America...
...makeshift medical schools that dot the Caribbean represent a last chance. Failure to get into graduate schools in the U.S. once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been turning to the Caribbean, where in the past half-dozen years 16 profit-making educational enterprises have flourished on the islands of Montserrat, Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Dominican Republic...
...winner by far did not have to wait in line: New York State, which stands to reap an estimated $11 million in education funds from that one giant jackpot alone. In fact, ticket sales are so brisk that this year the state figures to rake in $520 million in profit from $1.14 billion in lottery bets...
...phone near the Journal's newsroom in lower Manhattan to alert him to upcoming stories. For instance, on Oct. 26 Winans told Brant about a negative story that was due to appear on Commodore International, the home-computer maker. By selling the stock short, Clark made a profit of $134,671.79. Not all the trades were successful, though. When a favorable story on oil service stocks, including Schlumberger, failed to move the stock higher, Felis lost...
...trials of Seabrook and its backers underscore the fact that nuclear power is on precarious economic footing. The owners of Seabrook have already cancelled the second unit at Seabrook: it is 23 percent complete and apparently would have no chance of ever turning a profit. Long Island Lighting Co. is facing similar nightmares with its Shoreham nuclear plant: Lilco is desperately trying to finish the plant before it runs out of cash entirely. If construction drags on much longer, Lilco may face a situation much like that of Public Service...