Word: profit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Participants from more than 30 countries paid $1295 to hear this all-star lineup, though spots were available to students and representatives of non-profit organizations for discounted rates...
Nesson said the conference tried to attractrepresentatives of four major groups: establishedcapital, venture capital, non-profit organizationsand academia...
Romano's gourmet smorgasbord has mouth-watering numbers too. EatZi's has sales per sq. ft. of $1,500, easily outdistancing the $200 at regular grocery stores. Even tastier are EatZi's profit margins. At 12% to 15% of sales, they are more than four times the 2% to 3% that most grocers bag. Having tinkered with the concept for a couple of years, Romano is taking EatZi's national. Already in Dallas and Houston, EatZi's opened last month in Atlanta and will stock shelves in Westbury, N.Y., and Manhattan by the end of this year. "Women come...
...celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze Our Lady falls through. Lurking on the sidelines are a sleazoid journalist with a bent for blackmail, and Seville's worldly archbishop, whose diocese will profit if the church is destroyed...
...government and the courts vs. Big Tobacco [WASHINGTON DIARY, May 4]. Americans often act out in protest: we pile up the shoes of gunshot victims, bemoan drunk drivers, mad bombers and pornography. Why not bring to justice the monstrous, lying hypocrites who have, in the name of egregious profit and bloated salaries, poisoned the lives of millions? RICHARD GRAHAM Qingdao, China...