Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RNNHVI solution is to sullen the laws on the resale of tickets. A harsh penalty could be levied on those individuals who resell tickets for profit. Perhaps they should be forced to go through the above ritual ad infinitum. Or maybe they should shown the real meaning of the term "scalp...
...could be adjusted to fit the severity of the crime. Since there is a $2 profit limit those making $2.10 would suffer a vigorous verbal rebuke. Those scalpers making a profit of $2.50 would be stripped, smeared in honey, and the with Harvard Food Service. Those scalpers making a percent of $200 would become the involuntary donors of rejected what organs...
...market indexes--for example, the New York Stock Exchange composite--at a fixed price at some future date. What it amounts to is a legal bet on which way the market index is headed. If investors guess right, they can cash in their options at a profit. About 95% of the investors in N.Y.S.E. composite index options are individuals, and the volume of trading has surged 60% since the beginning of the year...
...DeVry Institutes, a Bell & Howell subsidiary, are at the trade-school end of the spectrum. A profit-making enterprise, DeVry sells "education for the real world." It is a tough-minded, no-frills outfit with about 30,000 students, enrolled in eleven institutes across the continent, studying for bachelor's, associate's and technician's diplomas in various electronics fields. The school operates twelve months a year in three shifts, morning, afternoon and night. Along with their technical courses, degree students must satisfy some requirements in psychology, English, history and literature. But DeVry makes no bones about the fact that...
...Carnegie Foundation's Boyer is openly dazzled by satellite learning, saying that it may represent "the space-age model for the future." In fact, the report has a tendency to stand in awe of the whole phenomenon of corporate learning. While it acknowledges the difference between education for profit by a corporation and for life preparation by a university, there is a strong implication throughout that higher education should embark on a careful self- reappraisal based on the corporate classroom...