Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ibsen attacks this Janus-faced samaritanism and also takes on the dilemmas of pride versus resignation, of profit and progress versus human interest. If played straight, this show could be rather sanctimonious. The speeches about lives based on lies are heavy handed even in Cantor's production, but the superb cast and quick pace play up Pillars farcical aspects. Props such as loud ties, when sacal scenery and an office suspended in mid air, beguile the audience...
Hardest hit was Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., the seventh largest American commercial bank, which had made about $1 billion worth of loans in cooperation with Penn Square. Losses on the loans are now expected to wipe out Continental Illinois' anticipated $59 million profit for the current quarter...
...drive for profit very easily corresponds with and reinforces racism in the U.S. How much could the U.S. corporations possibly have helped Blacks in S.A. in the over 30 years of apartheid? Clearly Putnam must be referring to fears that the government of S.A. would collapse without U.S. business, taxes, technology, loans, capital equipment and military goods and supervision to suppress growing Black resistance...
...bribed doctors and hospital administrators with cars or free university educations for their children. One Ciba-Geigy rep in the Philippines courted clients with pornographic films and prostitutes. More typical is the practice of distributing free drug samples to physicians, which the doctors then sell to patients for a profit. "It's the most effective incentive for overprescribing that I've seen," said Silverman. 'These people hand out toxic drugs as if they were popcorn...
...neon whorehouse, was invariably called the Paris of the Middle East. It may have been more like Monte Carlo, crossed with Miami Beach and Zurich. The Lebanese were cultured and vividly commercial. They stood precisely at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern culture, and took a handsome profit by mediating between the two. They have the highest literacy rate and the only real parliamentary democracy in the Arab world...