Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profit & Loss. Militarily, the apathetic but now secure south could be a plus for the Allies, the restless north a burr beneath the German saddle. But, economically, cobelligerent Italy looms as a headache...
...application of a competitor," But in a broader sense the Court ruled for the A.P. For the Court held that the A.P. not only may but must have the right to pass on the character of its membership. The Court took from the A.P. its possibilities of monopolistic profit. But the Court took from the A.P. none of its responsibility for maintaining the highest standards of integrity in news...
...drastic results of heavy, middle-aged drinking, and the leering onset of sex in very small Boy Scouts ("Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands a newspaper to his butler: "I'm through with the paper, Roberts. Take it out and sell it." Other Darrow scenes...
...days were gone forever. After an appropriate wait, while the State Department harrumphed and other U.S. oil companies stood on their legal, unenforceable rights, he made his own direct deal with Mexican realists. For $8,500,000 on the barrelhead, plus enough crude to net Sinclair a tidy profit, Mexico could have the whole Sinclair properties with no legalistic strings attached. Last week's check from good Don Francisco was the final payment...
...apiece. They were mostly middle-aged business and professional men (including a gravestone manufacturer, a dentist, a candymaker) and spent most of their spare time at the job; a few became so enthusiastic that they quit their jobs to make prisms fulltime. Their pay: expenses, a small profit, and an incentive to ride a hobby as hard as possible. Cried one fanatic: "To hell with the money...