Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machines are currently operating at a $1600 deficit each month, said Law, and the only machines making a profit were located in the Science Center. These four units will be left in place so that students will be able to complete work they have started on the system...
Private prison companies charge by the inmate. They make a profit by spending less money per inmate than the state would in a state run institution. They neither train their workers as well nor pay them as well as the state. They have an inventive to do things more cheaply. The logic of profitability does not provide a basis for a just corrections system...
...crisis has forced a measure of reform. A limited free-market system is now in place, permitting farmers and fishermen to sell off surplus food for profit. As a result, one industrious vegetable grower in the North earns five times as much as her office-worker son in Hanoi. In 1983 Viet Nam managed to feed itself for the first time in years. Though owning pigs is illegal in Hanoi, many of the capital's residents raise swine with loving care; a single butchered porker can bring in as much as a well-paid salaried worker earns in a year...
...businesses which operate for profit are prohibited from advertising on campus, according to University regulations. HSA is a non-profit organization...
Although Marwell said that he and his roommate have made a "great profit" from their business, which prints thesis papers, resumes, music scores and similar items, he added that "now HSA is entertaining the same-idea...