Word: profit
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Americans do believe in property rights--including the right to profit by selling. So the farmers and ranchers who feel squeezed out when tract housing plunks down next to their pasture often think about cashing in. "You get people waving millions," says Ben Wurtsmith, 67, a rancher in Colorado's Eagle County, not far from the exploding area around Vail. "Some days you just think about taking the money and taking off." One way to solve the problem, being used in parts of Colorado, is "development rights," which let builders put up houses more densely near town in exchange...
Though most large university presses are unsubsidized and not-for-profit, the presses are churning out unprecedented numbers of trade books--books that have high general interest sales...
Furthermore, because non-profit university presses routinely assume deals that might incur losses, they often do the work that commercial publishers "won't even touch," Adams says...
...Yale University Press, also not-for-profit, a body of professors sits on an editorial board that oversees the press to keep academic concerns at the forefront. Nevertheless, economic realities have also forced Yale to be money-conscious...
While he has no experience working in higher education, Metzger spent 16 years at Somerville Hospital and has served as the director of finance for a non-profit employment and training program in Boston and as a senior accountant with Coopers & Lybrand...