Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stamp Act ("Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell"). Standing near the doorway of the House of Burgesses was Thomas Jefferson, then a 22-year-old law student. He listened as the passionate Henry paused before mentioning the name of the British King ("Let George the Third profit by their example"), then heard the cries of "Treason!" that reverberated through the colonies. While Thatcher could ponder her myopic forebears, Mitterrand could indulge a Francophile chuckle. On the fateful day that Henry spoke, there was a still unidentified spy from the French government among the listeners. He reported...
...York Air, Midway Airlines in Chicago and Muse Air in Dallas. These newcomers have sparked a string of fare wars that along with the recession have crippled the entire industry. People is one of the few carriers that has been able to keep costs low enough to turn a profit. The airline earned $2.1 million in the first quarter, while the eleven largest carriers suffered a combined operating loss of $619 million...
...autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, he spoke of Berenson "perched on the pinnacle of a mountain of corruption." In return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work without conflict of interest in an art world that even then was a shady, manipulative place, if not the deep swamp it has since become...
...time the delegates in Vienna spend scrutinizing Israel's role in this trade would be far better spent in checking the U.N.'s own figures. There, they will find that the nations that criticize South Africa the loudest are often those that profit most from covert trade with her. Statistics from the International Monetary Fund reveal that Israel is ranked as South Africa's 20th largest trading partner, accounting for 4 percent of her imports and exports. On the other hand, Black Africa, which officially maintains a total boycott of South Africa, has economy links with the apartheid regime amounting...
John Anderson has been charged with embezzling $400 in a minority resume project in which he allegedly made a profit of $675. Anderson charged $25 a book, which Associated Students (AS) officials believe belongs to the student government...