Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pont operates Savannah River, near Aiken, S.C., on a non-profit basis for the government. Built by the chemicals giant in 1950 at the behest of the DOE's ancestor, the Atomic Energy Commission, the plant produces plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons production. Harvard owns almost $5 million of Du Pont stock...
...satanic disembowelment of animals, assault and dead-body dumping should not include the cultivation of a plant that is consumed by 25.5 million Americans and that one week earlier you noted was the fourth largest cash crop in America. The only crime committed by the marijuana growers is the profit accrued and the taxes not paid...
Rolland and his top managers have been buying a broad range of stocks that they expect will profit from dwindling interest rates. First they purchased utility issues, such as Arizona Public Service, Tucson Electric Power and Northern States Power. The borrowing costs of those companies will be declining, and that will help profits. Next they moved to housing-related stocks that would benefit if the lower interest rates encourage a pickup in homebuilding. Their favorites: Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific. Anticipating that consumer spending would increase, Rolland bought Sears, Roebuck and Co., MCA, Procter & Gamble and two drug companies, Syntex...
...deliberately, twice the 1979 rate. Since June 11, when 101 fires were reported in twelve hours, arsonists have caused $5 million in damage. Jim Coakley is one of 16 firemen on a special roving arson squad that includes police and federal agents. "It could be anything," he says. "Profit, vandalism, imitation... Some of it is because kids decide to set a fire and get some excitement...
...comparative newcomers for $17,500 and syndicated for $12 million. The Thoroughbred market of today, however, resembles the publishing industry: the blockbusters are fine, while the middling books are in trouble. The Wall Street Journal recently checked out 26 horse-investing partnerships formed in 1977-79. Twelve made a profit, nine lost and five broke even after taxes. Says Analyst Fierro: "The bottom of the market collapsed in November; the middle is experiencing some softening. If you don't like horses, don't come in." For those who love the smell of the liniment and the roar...