Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system designed by Harvard Physics graduate students for playing the Massachusetts State Lottery "Numbers Game" turned a $400 profit in its first nine weeks of operation, one of the students said yesterday...
...requirements for books and curriculum. Having put up the ante, 32 schools (enrolling 4,350 students) are doing business without accreditation by the American Bar Association or the state bar. According to John Gorfinkle, consultant to the state committee of bar examiners, "Seventeen of these schools are run for profit...
...substantive policy differences between the contenders. In foreign affairs, neither sees any alternatives to a strong NATO, close ties with the U.S., increased unity within the European Community and continued detente with the Soviet Union. In domestic matters, both Helmuts wholeheartedly support the free-market economy and profit incentives, while insisting that expansion of West Germany's already generous welfare state is possible only when there is enough money...
...embargoes on foreign grain sales, Carter assailed Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and used a subtle "we" to identify with his attentive audience. "I never met a farmer who wanted a handout," Peanut Processor Carter said. "I never met a farmer who wanted the Government to guarantee him a profit. But we do want to be treated fairly...
...outsider pictures the Texas economy as a montage of oil wells gushing instant wealth, horizon-to-horizon cattle roaming the King Ranch, self-made millionaires stomping about in stetsons, ready to take a shot at anything that promises a profit. The surprising fact is that so much of this view is essentially true-although the real business mosaic of Texas is of course vastly more complicated. The Texas economy is a thing unto itself, almost self-sustaining, ever on the move. Today, for example, Texas is expanding production of drilling equipment faster than output of oil itself. Besides...