Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, the Internal Revenue Service, the State District Attorney and Alper have been scratching their heads, checking their books and conducting audits and investigations, trying to figure out where International Seafoods, Inc.--the official name of the church's non-profit Gloucester fishery--gets its investments, how it bails itself out of trouble, and who buys property on Cape Ann at outrageous prices...
...gradually, Tong Il set up shop in Gloucester. ("Tong Il" was changed to "International Seafoods" in 1976, because of "terrible PR," the church's director for marketing services says "Tong Il" is also the name of Moon's Korean corporation which manufactures arms and weapons at an estimated annual profit of $2 million...
...children of the free-spending 1960s and beneficiaries of an educational system fattened by large infusions of Government money, the new generation of economists benefited from the heavy Government spending that they now so fervently condemn. They are content to deny to subsequent generations similar opportunities to profit from such largesse...
Other forbidden works included The Arts of David Levine, with a caricature of Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. When it was shown that Levine also lampooned American politicians, Ramaz Mchelidze, deputy general director of the fair, observed without irony, "We have different customs." Publishers may profit from the difference - which might explain their unwillingness, despite loud harrumphs, to pull out of the fair. In the '40s, getting a book banned in Boston was tantamount to a free ride on the bestseller list. Being maligned in Moscow may provide an equally large audience...
...similar proposals in other states, because it may increase the costs of administering the tests. After all, if the tests are public, the service won't be able to recycle questions, forcing someone to sit down every year to write new analogies. Considering the amount of money "non-profit" ETS clears each year, though, the added costs of questions, mailings and even Xerox copies shouldn't force them out of business. ETS's real fear may be that scrutiny will be to standardized tests as hurricanes are to the Dominican Republic. Public availability of the tests may well wreak havoc...