Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideal of capitalism is to generate long-term wealth for the general welfare. Unfortunately, in everyday practice capitalists extract as much short-term profit as possible. As America concentrates more of its wealth in fewer but larger corporations, we will forsake our moral strength and ethical honesty. Novak may believe what he has written. However, his theory abandons all values save that of the dollar...
...Someone signing a 25-year mortgage for $65,000 at 15½% interest, for example, could receive as much as $12,754 in federal aid over five years; the buyer would be required to pay back the money only if the house were sold at a profit. The full Senate is virtually certain to pass its bill this week, with the differences expected to be hammered out in conference within the next month...
...hauling out Cryts' beans. When the farmers were finished, they repaired the sheet metal, repainted the elevator wall and neatly swept the grounds. Farmers around the country have since sold the beans on the open market, sending Cryts the proceeds. It seems unlikely that he will earn a profit: all the cash is going to pay his legal expenses, which by now are huge...
Moon, 62, was convicted of failing to report as personal income $112,000 of interest on $1.6 million in his Chase accounts, as well as $50,000 worth of stock in Tong II Enterprises, a profit-making import company that Moon controlled. Convicted with him was his top financial aide, Takeru Kamiyama, 40, who was charged with helping the evangelist prepare false tax returns to conceal the income, attempting to block the subsequent Government investigation by submitting phony backdated documents, and lying to a grand jury...
...novel Congo. "A deal is a work of science fiction," Spielberg says. "I wasted three months learning how not to make one. Eventually, Brian and I walked away. The whole 'movie game' is just one more useless experience." He wishes the studios would put some of their profits into development of new talent: "If each studio would take $1 million profit per big movie and invest it in film schools and writing programs, we'd have the industry that David O. Selznick and Irving Thalberg created." The director has given $500,000 to the U.S.C. film program...