Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free enterprise. Upon her arrival, she rushed from one street vendor to another, buying up an assortment of modern-style dresses, blue jeans, sandals and high-heeled shoes. Twelve days later, Liu was back in Peking. Within a couple of days, she had sold her wares, reaping a hefty profit of 400 yuan ($235). It would have taken her one year as an apprentice worker to earn the same amount...
...years ago, Liu's activities would have landed her in jail for profiteering. But that was before Mao Tse-tung's death in 1976. Under the economic reforms introduced by Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, most efforts to turn a quick profit are being encouraged...
Reed vigorously denied the allegations, but in December 1981 he signed an agreement with the SEC putting his profit in escrow pending the outcome of private litigation; later he promised to donate the funds to charity. In January 1982 his old friend William Clark, President Reagan's National Security Adviser, gave Reed his first consulting assignment...
...Chevy in 1975. Finally, on April 21, 1976, what was then called the last American convertible rolled off the Cadillac assembly line, with Detroit Mayor Coleman Young as a passenger. The car was a white Eldorado with red-and-blue pinstriping, commemorating -and attempting to make a profit from - the Bicentennial. Two hundred of those cars were made, each selling for about $11,000 ($25,000 in today's dollars). Edward C. Kennard, Cadillac's general manager, said at the time: "Like the running board and the rumble seat, the convertible is an item that history has passed...
...well is the desire and stamina to keep on going, rejection after rejection. At times, the work is emotionally straining and humbling, but gradually after accruing confidence and skills-the welling process becomes easier and more rewarding. Basically, there is little reason why anyone should not earn a reasonable profit with sufficient effort...