Word: profit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general, Johnson said, "ETS is finding thatthe GRE CBT is more user-friendly, and they'remaking a better profit...
This alleged personal profit involved using inside knowledge of the Russian economy for personal gain, in some cases to guide investments in government bonds...
...becoming homeless because of two words--profit and greed," he said...
...America--not in Salt Lake, but in Los Angeles. The 1976 Montreal Games had dutifully lost millions of dollars, and the 1980 Moscow Games, boycotted by the U.S., didn't make a ruble. The Winter Games, always staged in nice little Currier & Ives villages, had seldom turned a profit. Therefore, naturally, no sane city wanted to play host to the Games. Then, in 1984, Peter Ueberroth and his Los Angeles organizing committee put on a splashy, TV-friendly, penny-squeezing Olympics that netted $220 million. Suddenly suitors were turning handsprings before the I.O.C., each performing citius, altius, fortius than...
...partners were able to net nearly all of the gains, since the deal was so highly leveraged. Additionally, they avoided paying taxes on the profit by rolling their gains directly into new properties...