Word: profit
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Barlow, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, country chair of the Wyoming Republican party and co-founder of the non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is an associate fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this semester, where he heads a study-group called "Cyberspace vs. Meatspace: Border Conflicts between the Virtual and the Physical Worlds...
Gross, who was working in the developmentaloffice at Dana Farber suggested that Silversteinvolunteer for non-profit organizations in thearea...
...event, which drew about 50 undergraduates, teaching fellows, and graduate students, was co-sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Standing Committee on Public Service and the Kennedy School's Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organization. The evening featured a panel of experts who gathered to discuss student activism on campus and in postgraduate vocational life...
...what seems like one-handed CPR. Musa, the revived trader, is not particularly grateful. His first thought is to sign up the young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would probably respond, "What's the catch?" By contrast, Crace's Messiah-in-training is a bit of a stick: an inept carpenter with a stuffy nose, a functional illiterate, the kind of cheerless guy who has to make camping out with snakes and scorpions even harder than it already...
Doling out freebies online is more than simple largesse, of course. The plan is to turn a profit real soon. Bohnett is, after all, an M.B.A.-packing capitalist. Like other entrepreneurs who have struggled with the How-Do-I-Make-Money-Online riddle, he figured that the first step was to attract a crowd. He started doing that in January 1995, when he got a friend to hang a camera out of the window of his Beverly Hills office and transmit to the Web live images of a bus-stop bench on Wilshire Boulevard. Oprah featured it and Bohnett...