Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What can it profit either a Christian to profess faith without the benefit of belief in the Resurrection, or a Jew to believe in the Resurrection without the benefit of Christian faith? Perhaps one should, as Lapide has, enter theological study of the New Testament without the shackles of Christian faith. On the other hand, it could also be argued that there can be no meaningful theological study of the New Testament without the benefit of Christian faith...
...enforcement office of the DOE's Economic Regulatory Administration was receiving 500 complaints a week of price gouging. But after auditing 2,000 stations' books, federal officials concluded that most of the nation's 171,000 gas station owners had not raised prices beyond the profit-margin limits imposed by the Government...
...items are sold by "distributors," who are in effect door-to-door salespeople and earn a 30% profit on volume. Usually people with other jobs, they join Amway for extra income. They buy their wares from higher-level "direct distributors," who also sell door to door. Regular distributors are urged to become direct distributors themselves, and they do so by recruiting, training and supervising new salespeople. Though the direct distributor is not paid for signing up these recruits, he does make additional money by selling Amway products at a slight mark up to the distributors under him. To keep sales...
...Rockefeller has not only appealed to the snob, he has appealed to the investor. His "limited editions" imply that there might be some resale market for the cunning purchaser, that a buyer today might be able to go out and resell his copy for a profit in the future. Don't count on it. Once the promotional steam clears, no one will be interested in a fake Rodin...
That's the beauty of our free enterprise system--we can do whatever we want to, regardless of social needs or social costs, with only the profit margin to guide...