Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...framework of strictly adhered-to non-racist guidelines would benefit the South African population as a whole. Continuing business contacts based on more carefully defined "Sullivan principles" might get the all-important business community involved in reform--indeed, it is from this very community, whose bottom line is profit and therefore a stable, efficient, economic system, that some real attempts at liberalization have come. And cutting off economic and military aid to the regime itself would get the message across that we will have nothing to do with a racist state. And yet maintaining non-governmental ties would avoid...
Harvard has operated the farms, an old part of the estate, since Berenson left I Tatti to the University in 1950. The crop yield raises a small profit for the villa, helping subsidize the salaries of several office workers there...
...Managua daily La Prensa. On Jan. 10, 1978, Chamorro, 53, was gunned down on his way to the office by Sonioza henchmen. The apparent motive: retaliation for a La Prensa disclosure that a blood bank owned in part by Somoza was selling much needed blood abroad at a profit...
Forty-three independent but "tasteful" licensees, peddling all manner of Olympic-embossed merchandise, are expected to return $20 million to the committee. If there is a profit on the Games, and the jauntiest guesses run to $50 million, the money will be shared by the U.S.O.C., youth groups and amateur sports federations...
Those who care about the national parks should redouble their efforts to fight Reagan's policies. With Watt's departure the environment could cease to be a high-profit issue. Certainly, environmental issues should continue to command public attention. But somehow they will look different without the glare off of Jimmie Watt's cranium...