Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colombia, and importation is closely regulated. A 55-gal. drum of ethyl ether that sells for $500 in the U.S. fetches more than $12,000 in Colombia. Says Alfonso Barragan, president of the Colombian Society of Chemical Engineers: "The Colombian black market in chemicals probably has a higher profit margin than that of cocaine itself...
...Harvard Real Estate (HRE) Vice President Nancy E. Kossan said that cookies are not on their way. Instead, the University's for-profit arm plans to move Harvard's human resources division into the spot, Kossan said...
...Nursing opposed the plan, other health professionals reserved final judgment. Otto Chan, a junior doctor at St. Thomas's Hospital, is concerned that the emphasis on efficiency will hurt the elderly and the poor most, since they often require expensive drugs or repeated office visits. Says Chan: "The profit- making system is biased in favor of young patients...
...international motifs, including the Rose of Versailles, which features a white porcelain bowl decorated with pink roses and exuding the flower's fragrance, and the Fin de Siecle in Vienna, which offers a rococo bowl and whiffs of lavender. The builders, the Golden Tower Corp., hope to turn a profit on the $4 million project in about four years. So far, up to 2,000 visitors a day have flooded...
Once unequal partners, then fierce and feuding competitors, the leviathans of the Communist world have finally attained a measure of mutual respect. -- How the U.S. can profit from the new detente. -- In Paraguay, longtime dictator Alfredo Stroessner is toppled. -- Inside the KGB: rare photos of the supersecretive Soviet security agency at work...