Word: profitable
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Despite these expenses, the Lampoon is still an extremely profitable non-profit organization declaring income of over $200,000 and assets of almost half a million dollars in 1980 for example. In fact, without such generous donations as those given annually to the College, the magazine could lose its tax-exempt, non-profit status...
...Center was established in 1928 by then-Fogg director Edward W. Forbes, as the museum's conservation department. Since then, the Center has expanded to become a national, non-profit cooperative. Each year, museums and private collectors throughout the country send more than 500 art works to the museum. The Center staff works to repair and clean works, and often checks the pieces for authenticity...
...tons of plastic explosives from the city's Intercontinental Airport to Tripoli in 1977. In Dallas, Smalley, 42, was charged with conspiring to smuggle 100 tanks to Iran and 8,300 antitank missiles to its foe Iraq. Both offered similar alibis: they were motivated by patriotism rather than profit and believed, their lawyers claimed, that they were involved in covert operations sanctioned by the U.S. Government...
...content of the original, which is the largest U.S. daily (circ. 2 million). A 50-member European editorial staff supplies features and news of regional interest; the paper's model is the Asian Wall Street Journal (circ. 25,000), which started in 1976 and turned a profit last year...
...created because somebody wants him. The essential difference between such a procedure and an opposite one like abortion is that in the surrogate situation someone does want the child, the desire being compelling. Indeed, everyone concerned wants the child; the prospective family and the surrogate parent too, either for profit or as an act of philanthropy. It may be argued that adoption is a cleaner and less cumbersome method, for all its bureaucratic impediments, but this is not an issue enhanced by taking sides. A couple wants a child. If the insemination is artificial, the parental attitude is real...