Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the council did vote to allow construction of the bridge, it also censured Draper for using its technical non-profit status to avoid paying city taxes on the lab. "It's a strange type of non-profit to help defense contractors make money off the future deaths of millions of people," said Wylie...
Maybe nothing will come of Saturday's game. Maybe the Harvard football team won't profit from the experience they got while UMass earned its first victory of the season, 21-7, at the Stadium...
Television is a business and like any other management has to do what is in the interests of its profit margin. In many cases, that means hiring and firing because of looks in search of good ratings. What makes Christine Craft different is that she had those good ratings, but still had to endure sex discrimination. Her case makes clear that actions based on appearance must be strictly limited to business. It, however, should not be interpreted to limit television stations from having the same ability to hire and fire as any other business...
Still, the demise of the program underlines the difficulties still facing Ph.D.s and suggests some ways Harvard might redirect its efforts to help them. Alumni of the program said its too-narrow approach may have hurt it by focusing only on business rather than including non-profit concerns as well. More telling, though, is the criticism that Harvard did not make strong enough efforts to publicize the program either inside or outside the University--dooming it, perhaps, to poorer enrollments and a lower reputation among such programs than it deserved...
...final impetus for change has been the realization that Harvard itself could profit, both from the new case provided by developing nations and from constructive criticisms of the exported methods...