Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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General Manager James A Argeros said a profit of $2,723,000 will be distributed to an estimated 103,000 members The 9 8 percent figure is up 1/10 of a percent from last year's 9 7 percent...
According to the indictment, crimes indeed took place. In 1980 and '81, Rich's domestic company and two Texas firms, West Texas Marketing of Abilene and Listo Petroleum of Houston, carried out an oil-laundering and profit-hiding scheme. In the first step of the process, Rich allegedly went to domestic producers and bought crude oil that had Government-controlled prices as low as $5 per bbl. Rich then supplied the oil to the Texas firms at the legal price. The Texas companies, according to federal officials, laundered the crude through a series of purchases so that...
...Brien says he saw the search for new sources of profit as almost a necessity. "A few years ago, it seemed [the Management Company's] strategy might not give us the revenue we needed," he recalls, but adds, "It's not a problem anymore. I think we're innovative...
There are even more esoteric branches of the options market, such as "covered calls." Here, through distortions in the market, an investor can occasionally own the rights to buy a security at one price and sell it at a higher one--a guaranteed profit which Cabot calls "premium stripping." Harvard makes some efforts to find covered calls, but relies mostly on an outside consultant, Princeton/Newport. This firm uses computers and other sophisticated techniques to isolate covered calls and other premium stripping opportunities. The Management finds even more of these through its own program, called "Cash and Carry...
...should somehow make them pay their fair share," added Graham. "It's not right for non-profit companies who get millions of dollars in federal grants, which after all come from taxpayers' pockets, to get away with paying nothing in return...