Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preservation has its indirect costs as well. The owners of protected landmark structures, prohibited from tearing down their buildings, are deprived of the potential profit of building something bigger or more commercially successful. Thus Preservationist Fitch suggests that governments subsidize owners "who are unfortunate enough to own properties of significance." According to Fitch, "If the state demands that they preserve the buildings, then they should be aided in that activity...
Thousands of Americans are now caught up in harvesting empties for profit. Charities, civic clubs and groups like the Boy Scouts regularly go at it. Since March, Dade County, Fla., fire fighters have picked enough cans to raise $4,990 for a burn center at James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital. On Chicago's South Side, some 20 neighborhood can pickers process more than 12,000 tons of scrap paper and metal each year at the Resource Center, one of the nation's largest nonprofit recycling operations. Ken Dunn, founder of the center, sees the collectors as successful entrepreneurs. Says...
...condom vending machines, which were installed in mid-October, dispense condoms in men's and women's bathrooms in each of the college's residence halls for 50 cents apiece. Ithaca receives no profit from the condom sales. No sales figures are yet available for the condoms...
...scholarships are administered by the New England Board of Higher Education, a non-profit regional agency whose purpose is to act as liaison between higher education, business, and government. The scholarship program "is a grass-roots initiative enabling New England colleges to support Black South African students," said Ellen Anderson, a spokesman for the board...
...acting in Dragon runs the gamut. The character of Mattie is handled adeptly. Though she sometimes stumbles on lines and can be soppy at emotional moments, Choi really conveys the portrait of the girl who's made it, a glitzy woman who turns her cultural heritage to profit. Mattie's brother Johnny (Yongjin Im) has fabulous lines like "Cantonese sweet 'n' sour goes straight to your scrotum, but Im is at times overly theatrical. And his accent does not exactly match those of the characters of his brother Johnny or his parents...