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None of these arguments carry much weight among the oilmen. Phillips Petroleum, BP Amoco and ExxonMobil all hope to profit from ANWR leases. So do Halliburton--the oil-field services giant headed until recently by Vice President Dick Cheney--and Enron, a large energy marketer run by Bush buddy Kenneth Lay. For them, it seems, the only good oil field is a tapped oil field...
...BACCHUS and GAMMA Peer Education Network, a Task Force member, is among those leading the charge; interestingly, representatives of Miller Brewing Company, Anheuser-Busch Companies and Coors Brewing Company serve on the Network's board of trustees. The alcohol industry is profit-motivated, and it may have its own reasons for wanting to discredit the term "binge drinking" and the years of research conducted by leading academic and governmental research organizations...
...During the campaign, Bush called it the "excess benefits" tax - imposing an unspecified percentage levy on any legal fees beyond a "reasonable amount." At the time, he pointed to current taxes on golden-parachute severance packages and the salaries of non-profit-organization CEOs, which can run up to 200 percent (!) if the overhanging money isn't returned...
There's something dirty in the laundry rooms of Harvard College, and it's not sweat-stained DHA's or sullied socks. There's a profit being made off our grimy garments, and every time a student swipes a Crimson Cash card or drops a quarter in a dryer his loss becomes someone else's gain. From Eliot House to Adams House, from Hollis to Holworthy, our precious dollars are being washed away with the Tide. Ironically, our money is being laundered in a room full of Maytags...
...machines, and the cost of the energy and water consumption involved in using those machines. A rational individual would suppose that the money that students deposit into laundry machines goes directly and entirely towards paying off the aforementioned costs. After all, Harvard isn't in the laundry business for profit, right...