Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month, in order to end a takeover fight, Phillips Petroleum agreed to buy the 8.9 million shares that Pickens and his partners held in the company. That stands to earn the group an $89 million profit, and started speculation about Pickens' next target. "I think he is going to do the same thing again, and sooner rather than later," says Alan Edgar, an energy analyst for Schneider, Bernet & Hickman, a Dallas securities firm. Pickens himself remains tight-lipped: "We'll look at anything that makes sense," he says. "And that's the end of that conversation...
Iacocca, widely credited with orchestrating the federal government loans that delivered Chrysler from financial ruin in 1979, wrote in the book's preface that he never intended to profit personally from the self portrait...
...article noted somewhat whimsically that Deaver's wife Carolyn had become an "overnight success" in the public relations field despite no previous experience, gaining clients like the Republican National Committee. A friend of Deaver's, it was also reported, had arranged for Deaver to make a $10,000 profit on a money-losing real estate transaction...
...said David Goldstein, a member of the Law Review and one of the leaders of staff support for the move. "But we think it sends a symbolic message to the University that a mainstream publication like the Law Review--with liberals and conservatives and moderates--feels it should not profit in any way from South Africa...
...argued in my letter that the Final Clubs' role in the life of the College is inconsequential; that their discriminatory practices do no serious harm; and that it is puritanical, in that circumstance, to insist they change their ways or depart our midst. I implied that we all profit form having some among as who march to a different drummer. Laissez-faire. In his response, Stevens charges me with inconsistency, recalling, quite mistakenly, that three years ago I argued in favor of restricting the rights of homosexuals. Not so. Then, as now, I argued against restricting individual freedom of action...