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ICANN is a private, non-profit corporation which is charged with the oversight of domain name registration, the system by which Internet users are able to receive names such as harvard.edu or amazon.com. Formerly controlled by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the domain-name registry was transferred several years ago to a for-profit corporation, Network Solutions, whose high profits and monopoly control prompted the government to transfer control once again to ICANN. In coming years, the group will decide on the creation of new, publicly available top-level domain names to augment the familiar .com, .net and .gov. However...
...Living Foundation, which is not affiliated with Harvard, described itself to SAA as "a non-profit organization aimed at education and service for human development and social rehabilitation...
...most recent and, if it were not such a serious issue, most laughable, attempts to profit via morality was the transformation of Republican presidential hopeful Steve Forbes from 1996 to 2000. In the 1996 election, Forbes's name was synonymous with one idea--the flat tax. He trumpeted it everywhere, and earned a small but devoted following. He was a one-issue candidate, much like Arizona Senator John S. McCain was this year...
...suit claims the University failed to provide adequate supervision for the program, allowing the other defendants to profit illegally by investing in the Russian economy...
...become the beneficiary of the largest-ever American privatization of an oilfield, when it purchased 78 percent of the Elk Hills oilfield near Bakersfield, Calif. Gore spokesman Jim Kennedy says the vice president never specifically pushed for the sale of Elk Hills or made any effort to profit from it. But in 1995 Gore had indeed called specifically for the privatization of Elk Hills, which had been the Navy's strategic reserve, arguing it was no longer needed. And he was merely repeating what Republican presidents from Nixon to Reagan had maintained - that the Navy no longer needs...