Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard, realistic, profit-minded basis, any advertising agency that had at its disposal the millions of dollars the Republicans spent, the scads of top echelon organizational brains, and four years of "scientific" advance planning, yet could only bring forth a neck-and-neck race, would be headed for extinction...
...Communists, whatever their feelings about the invasion of Czechoslovakia, managed to turn a profit by it. But for Poland's aging, doctrinaire Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, Russia's tanks and troops performed an invaluable eleventh-hour salvage job. As one who has recently based his career on being Moscow's company man, Gomulka rates especially warm treatment from the Kremlin during times of Communist stress-and the Soviets have never needed him more. As a result, Czechoslovakia has enabled Gomulka to overcome- for the present-the most serious challenge to his leadership in his twelve years...
...monolithic uniformity in ritual and belief has been the unique glory of Catholicism-at times, even, its salvation as a definable entity. Even Protestants dissatisfied with what often seems to be the spiritless confusion of their own churches would contend that Catholicism should profit by the Reformation but not use it as an example. For better or worse, millions of Catholics like the church...
...notable journalistic coup was its re cent interview with the shadowy Alfred Winslow Jones, father of Wall Street's current investment sensation, the hedge fund (whose profit-at-high-risk philosophy aims at taking advantage of both upward and downward swings of the market). Touches of humorous erudition are sprinkled throughout. A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals...
Wesley E. Profit '69, president of PBH, suggested during the question period that Cambridge might set up an intern program to invite students to become part of the city government. Under such a program, Profit said, the students would work directly with city councillors and other officials in an effort to lend student talent to the City and at the same time learn about city government. Mrs. Ackermann said she would take up the proposal with the city manager...