Word: profitable
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...million annual budget from foundations, many of them begun by ideological sympathizers like Pittsburgh Moneyman Richard Mellon Scaife and Industrialist John Olin. Another third is contributed by business corporations, though Heritage's rigid opposition to Government regulation and protectionism has angered executives of some major corporations that profit from such measures. The final third comes from 130,000 individual donors...
Although the government tolerates Peking's youthful money-changers, it cracked down on more flagrant speculators. The party newspaper People's Daily pointedly reported the fate of entrepreneurs in Xian who had managed a quick $7,600 profit by gouging buyers of woolen blankets; the merchants were punished with heavy fines. Storeowners in Peking who had hiked prices on 14-in. color TV sets to make an extra $100 profit were fined and reprimanded publicly. "This ill wind of arbitrary price rises must be resolutely checked," the paper insisted...
...defense of exit polling and early network projections, I consider my right to vote one of the great privileges of this democracy. The country does not profit from those who must either be begged for their vote or sheltered from early projections of the outcome in order to give us the benefit of their wisdom...
...take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialistic monopoly of economic and political supremacy at the expense of others." In the Newfoundland fishing community of Flatrock, the Pope condemned concentrations of economic power and said that key industries like food production could become "controlled by the profit motive of a few rather than by the needs of the many...
What makes the question all the more thorny is that it's not a profit-seeking utility seeking the license, but a consortium of hospitals, research centers and a medical school which serve 585,000 patients a year and consistently come up with awesome medical breakthroughs. Moreover, if MATEP is allowed to start up its six 9000-horsepower diesel engines, it can begin offering the seven hospitals and other clients electricity 30 to 35 percent more cheaply than Boston Edison...