Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program--now in its early stages--pays an individual consultant to confer with the student officers of organizations, evaluating and advising on general bookkeeping and the more complex procedure involved with filing non-profit tax returns...
...Higgins novel has a theme of sorts--a crime with which most of the characters in the novel are concerned. In his first, and still probably his best. The Friends of Eddie Coyle, it was auto theft, in the 1981 model. The Rat on Fire, it was arson for profit: in The Patriot Game, it is gun-running for profit and the greater glory of the provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army. But whatever the crime of choice the novel is usually only an excuse to let the Higgins people talk...
...program-now in its early stages-pays an individual consultant to confer with the student officers of organizations, evaluating and advising on general bookkeeping and the more complex procedure involved with filing non-profit tax returns...
That is a boon to readers in the rest of the U.S.: these are emigrants from the best journalism academy in the land, and papers elsewhere could profit from their lessons. - By William A. Henry III. Reported by BJ. Phillips/ St. Petersburg
...rich." So rich that the venerable London firm of Francis Edwards now advocates a kind of leather-bound mutual fund. For a minimum of $1,000-plus a 2% storage commission-Edwards assembles a "portfolio" of rare books, often unseen by the investor, to be sold later for profit. A typical $10,000 Edwards holding might include such items as The Journals of Captain Cook ($200), Kipling's Kim ($80) and Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director ($2,500). Clive Farahar, one of Edwards' aggressive associate directors, encourages investors to leave their...