Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...founded last month to raise funds and concern for the ailing African nation, say they hope for a sellout crowd when the committee brings dancers, a symphony orchestra and gospel singers to Sanders Theater on January 13 and 20. All proceeds will go directly to Grassroots International, a non-profit emergency relief agency based in Cambridge...
...degree of the guilt, even under conventional insanity law. That is why the law must stop the abortion from happening in the first place. As for the abortionist, there is an easy answer to that question, YES. He is knowingly taking human life, often on an enormous scale, for profit. The question for me is not whether he should be tried for murder but whether the whole abortion community should be tried for war crimes against a generation, which I think they should. They exploit for profit (those $150 fees add up) women at perhaps one of the most vulnerable...
...trying to do." Later when the enormous Olympic surplus of $215 million was announced, Ueberroth and his committee were accused of poor mouthing about a possible shortage of funds. Of course, just weeks before the Games, Ueberroth's insistence that there would be at least a $15 million profit despite the Soviet boycott was greeted with great skepticism. For months Ueberroth had suspected that a large profit was possible. But the threat of catastrophe always hovered over the Olympics, and he was always planning for the unexpected...
...history's biggest merger. Late in the year Pickens and two partners bought about 6% of the shares of Phillips Petroleum and announced a bid to take control. After several skirmishes in court, Pickens agreed to sell the shares to an underwriting group organized by Phillips for an estimated profit of $89 million...
...shareholders will benefit from his actions because the value of their stock will rise. The most venerable greenmail victim of 1984 was Mickey Mouse. Saul Steinberg, a New York City financier, bought 12% of the stock of Walt Disney Productions and then sold it to the company for a profit of $32 million...