Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Hot Duel Over Dumping" [March 26]: dumping by Japanese exporters has been going on for years. Part of the trouble is the attitude of our State and Justice Departments, which penalize violators with $1,000 or $2,000 fines, even while they rip off mil lions in profit and hurt our economy tremendously. Congress, manufacturers associations and various chambers of commerce with their country club atmosphere are to blame as well...
...story revolves around Joey Evans, cheap nightclub dancer par excellence, who gives up Linda English, the girl he loves, to profit from the attentions of Vera Simpson, a wealthy matron willing to pay--quiet handsomely--for her pleasures. Joey quickly tires of Vera and look pleasures. Joey quickly tires of Vera and looks and Linda against...
...scheme for violating stock-purchase margin requirements and sent him to jail. Kenneally was named as an unindicted coconspirator. ISC had acquired $1 million worth of Holly's stock through a Uruguayan brokerage firm to avoid the margin rules, and then dumped its shares, for a $1.6 million profit, after dropping the takeover...
...purpose is not to make a large profit," Del Vecchio said, adding "We simply want to provide a cohesive service for students using the facility...
...influence one way or another "not directly involve it" in the consequences of its own decisions? South Africa may be the most notorious issue of the day on Harvard's campus, but there are many others. Several great urban universities, for example, are extensive slumlords or conduct for profit enterprises which have little directly to do with academic freedom. To argue that the profit purpose, pure and simple, excuses the decision-makers in a non-profit corporation from anticipating the ethical consequences of their decisions, is, it seems to me, to hold universities to a lower standard of ethics than...