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...pressures of making a profit and working for a chain instead of for an independent institution shape the way that Gannett editors operate in the newsroom, some...
...course, The Princeton Review does have a touch of social conscience. The Princeton Review runs free programs in inner cities and reveals its trade secrets in books you can buy for under a grand. But The Princeton Review is a firm, and as I learned in Ec10, firms are profit-maximizers. They charge whatever they can get, and it turns out that they can extort obscene amounts of money from enough people to make unintentional class warfare worth their while...
...extent to which (contrary to stereotypes) their man has come to seem the candidate of the overbearing - big government, big unions, big minorities, big money, big Hollywood, big hype, and a million moms. The combination may work for Gore. But in a screwy way, George W. Bush may profit from a counterintuitive inclination of Americans to associate him with the little...
...advancement and future exploitation of genetic sequencing should be carried out on a purely not-for-profit basis, so the discovery can benefit the largest number of people. It's a chance to prove we can overcome a most basic and destructive human flaw: greed. JIMMY YEW Singapore...
Ellison is not a man to shy away from his own Smithian self-interest, and he believes the profit motive could be the best tool for solving the world's problems--more effective than government or private philanthropy. "Which did more for the world?" he asks. "The Ford Motor Co. or the Ford Foundation?" He shakes his head. "That's an interesting question...