Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record thus far, regarding information about microwave and radio-frequency radiation, suggests that a lot of powerful people in this country are sufficiently caught up in considerations of national security and corporate profit so as to feel no urgency to settle the bio-hazard issues. Nor do they have much compunction about bringing economic and political pressure to bear upon anyone who might feel that urgency...
...Krim says, U.A. suffered all sorts of indignities, including the imposition by Transamerica of a computerized profit-forecasting system that Krim considered "a joke" in the instinctive movie business. But most galling of all were the consequences of the fact that under Transamerica's umbrella, U.A. had become an "invisible company," with no stock exchange listing of its own. Although shares of other moviemakers such as Columbia and 20th Century-Fox have been shooting up on the strength of box-office hits, Transamerica's stock has hung listlessly in the $13-$16 range. The U.A. executives...
...increase in general crime was inevitable. In 1977 reported crimes in Italy rose by 7.5% over the previous year-from 1,900,000 to 2,090,000. An average of eight out often of these crimes, or 13% more than in 1976, remained unsolved. Kidnaping, more often for profit than political motives-but occasionally for both -reached a record total of 76 in 1977. Since 1970, kidnapers have netted $175.5 million in ransom money...
...followed the coffin from the hospital mortuary to Chamorro's home and then to La Prensa's office. The angry marchers moved on to burn a Somoza-owned textile mill and a commercial blood bank that Chamorro had exposed for selling Nicaraguan blood abroad at a lucrative profit. Some stoned a police station; the cops responded by lobbing tear gas into La Prensa's building. The crowds shouted "Death to Somoza!" and "Down with Yankee imperialism!" Among a score of buildings set afire was an American bank. To forestall further rioting, the government pressured Chamorro...
Disini, of course, is not the only Filipino who has been known to profit from a personal relationship with Marcos. Since the President imposed martial law in 1972, his relatives and cronies, as well as those of his glamorous wife Imelda, the governor of Manila, have been amassing huge fortunes. Their blatant influence peddling has prompted one amazed diplomat in Manila to observe: "It's incredible what they've taken over." Marcos' sister Elizabeth Marcos Keon, for example, is governor of Ilocos Norte province, and Benjamin ("Kokoy") Romualdez, Imelda's brother, who owns the Times Journal...