Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Emeritus, called nuclear energy "about the safest operation in the United States," and stressed that there have been no fatalities from peaceful use of nuclear technology. He added, though, that accidents like the one at Three Mile Island were inevitable because of the complexity of nuclear technology and the profit-seeking motives of the utilities that control...
Carter's anti-inflation and full-employment programs will fail because they are geared to private corporate-profit interests rather than immediate social concerns, he said...
Much of the information which the ACSR and Corporation use comes from the Investor Responsibility Research Center, a non-profit organization based in Washington that was created by universities and foundations in 1972 to investigate corporate practices and supply its sponsors with relevant information...
Opponents of rent control in Cambridge told state legislators last week that rent control was preventing landlords from making a fair profit...
Preusser said that if rent control was abolished or condominium conversion allowed to continue, landlords could price apartments and condominiums beyond the reach of young, old, fixed-income or working class tenants; thereby robbing the city of its diversity. "I suspect that in the minds of some, a fair profit margin means as much as you can get," Preusser said...