Word: profit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though sensational, were accurate. DE LOREAN NABBED IN COAST COKE BUST blared the New York Daily News. This was no dream. He actually was under arrest and in jail, charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to acquire 220 lbs. of cocaine in the expectation of making a $50 million profit. Federal investigators described...
Reductions in funding for non profit services and other federal agencies have sharply reduced the number of positions available for Harvard students interested in government and in public interest law, Gwinn explained...
Lennon's death brought the predictable slew of tributes. In American, tragedy usually also means profit, and manuscript after manuscripts chronicling the Beatle legend found its way into print. Most, hastily written, were garbage. Thankfully, the editors of the authorities rock magazine Rolling Stone took their time and only recently released a collection of interviews with and essays on the most controversial Beatles. The Ballad of John and Yoko is a captivating work, at once passionate and thought out, loving and objective. And it features some of the best writing on rock to be found anywhere...
...output of wheat and cotton is running below the levels of he 1970s. Further, production of such minerals as tin, lead, gold, silver and zinc las been devastated by miners' strikes, and only one of the state-owned mining group's 14 largest mines makes a profit. The inflation rate of 157% is likely to rise, foreign currency reserves total only $83 million, and by year's end the central bank is expected to be nearly $800 million behind in payments on Bolivia's external debt of $3.8 billion...
During the wide-ranging and occasionally unfocused two and-a-half hour public hearing at the Science Center, 11 ACSR members listened to speakers discuss topics such as whether Harvard should profit from nuclear-weapons, or production, the merits of a freeze in the building of nuclear weapons, or whether the University should consider shareholder morality...