Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These expenses deprived Massachusetts of about $265.5 million in state aid which the lottery could have funded if it had turned a 40 percent profit, the national average...
Harvard Real Estate, Inc. bases its request for this increase on the following two factors: 1) they claim to have spent $83,000 last year on improvements to the exterior of the building; 2) they seek to double the already substantial profit margin on our building...
...Rent Control Board it is clear that Harvard Real Estate is well able to meet all its operating expenses for the building at the current rent rates; even the recent external capital improvements would be absorbed by the current rates. Why should any landlord, especially Harvard, a non-profit institution, be allowed to seek great and sudden increases in profit...
...deadline, probably some time next year. While she will have the advantage of setting the date, the Labor Party has consistently led in the polls for the past nine months. Last week's Liberal- Social Democratic rift over defense policy may have helped the Tories, who stand to profit more than Labor from centrist confusion. Kinnock's resurgent party nonetheless remains a formidable opponent...
...novel, It (Viking; $22.95), Stephen proves once again that he is the indisputable King of horror, a demon fabulist who raises gooseflesh for fun and profit. At 39, he seems to be the country's best-known writer. When he appeared on an American Express commercial to ask onlookers "Do you know me?," the answer was obvious: Of course, they did. His face, sometimes . bearded, now clean shaven, appears on most of the 20-odd books written under two names. More than 60 million of them have been in distribution worldwide, including two volumes -- Carrie and The Dead Zone -- that...