Word: profit
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...annual festival is sponsored by the Booksellers of Harvard Square, a non-profit association of local booksellers dedicated to books and literacy. The Boston Phoenix, Bank-Boston and WBUR 90.9 radio station also sponsored the festival. All proceeds will be donated to the Cambridge School Volunteers...
...council could land a big enough profit from this one concert to fund another each year; the three or four year start-up waiting period would not have to be repeated. By selling discounted tickets to students and full price tickets to the Boston community, the council could generate enough revenue to make it an annual event, especially if the University would donate space for the concert, like Soldiers Field...
According to the HDA brochure from 1907, "The aim will be not to make a profit but to provide a greater variety of food prepared under the best possible conditions, and pleasanter associations to its members and their guests than could be otherwise obtained...
Fuad Al-Omar, vice president of finance for the Islamic Development Bank, described the Islamic investment process by which investors avoid firms that profit from forbidden activities, such as interest, gambling and alcohol, as well as firms with a great deal of debt, and seek "cleansing" through giving some types of income to charity...
When is $300 billion not a lot of money? It would make every resident of Buffalo, N.Y., an instant millionaire. It equals 40 years of profit for Exxon. But if it comes from the tobacco industry, well, for a growing number of folks $300 billion is a sum to sniff at. This is the nightmare that proponents of a sweeping congressional tobacco settlement most feared: a greedfest from plaintiffs' lawyers and the public now that tobacco executives have come to the bargaining table. Consider the state of Missouri, which so far has steered clear of the tobacco suits. "I expect...