Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could defend myself by saying that my ethical failings are somehow not as qualitatively reprehensible as, say, dumping toxic waste for profit. But if the deeds are not equally heinous, the violations of principle are. Either you believe that right supercedes riches...
Like thousands of 60s leftists turned 80s salary-earners, I don't believe that money-making is inherently bad. But neither should it be a summum bonum. Individual profit-seeking must be weighed against a larger social good. That's why we condemn Ford Motor Company for its combusting Pinto and Frank Lorenzo for his union-busting...
...actually obey the standards that I righteously hold up for others is more difficult, especially since the rationalizations that I offer for my own actions are identical to those used by the profit-lusters I detest...
...vast majority of the immigrants, the whole point of coming to Alaska was to profit from the land. Red Swanson, who arrived in 1945, is a good example. For more than 40 years he has bulldozed Alaska, pumped oil out of it, cut down its trees and paved it with asphalt. Says Swanson: "The environmentalists have stopped Alaska from being great. They say hundreds of birds have been killed by this oil spill. But we have millions of birds. These things happen...
...conceived as a public relations gambit on behalf of a little-known Kentucky troupe and a for-profit health-care corporation. Blessed in its early years with remarkable taste, or maybe beginner's luck, the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville soon developed into a hallmark of the regional- theater movement and one of the nation's prime showcases for new plays. Half a dozen transferred to Broadway or the movies. Two, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, won Pulitzer Prizes. Then the festival fell on hard times. Of 37 works introduced from...