Word: profit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earthwatch is a non-profit organization that depends on volunteers who contribute money to research projects and then work with professional researchers on those projects...
Just-A-Start, a non-profit organization which assists low-income Cambridge residents, paid off the $525,000 mortgage held by the building's previous owners and will now receive the tenants' rent checks...
...property has suffered from "land flipping," a phenomenon in which a building is repeatedly sold for a quick profit, five times in the last five months...
This sort of nitpicking, I'm sure, pleases Evans immensely. Now that titles like The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington are suddenly floating around the airwaves, making their way into circles of conversation and, no doubt, appearing in paperback at The Coop, Random House stands to profit. Indeed, the company plans to reissue 10 more novels from the list in the coming year. But is this dose of unabashed consumerism enough to make us want to sneer at the entire project? Not really. The truth is, Americans aren't exactly eating up literary fiction these days. If it takes...
...succeeded financially too. In August, when the list first appeared, Ulysses, Brave New World, Lolita and The Great Gatsby were all among the top 10 paperback bestsellers on Amazon.com, and the new paperbacks, with their admittedly attractive covers and layout, should bring in a handsome profit. Thought I expected the list to increase the popularity of the books for a short while, I find it remarkable that the public is quite so impressionable to a media stunt. As for myself, at least I know that only I can choose the books that I like, and that Harry Evans...