Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December 18 court ruling affirmed the May decision of Leslie Carothers, EPA acting regional administrator, to exempt the $230 million power plant from Clean Air Act standards because it is a non-profit health and educational institution. Harvard requested the federal exemption after the diesel plant received approval from the state under strict operating conditions...
Residents of Brookline and Mission Hill--the towns nearest MATEP's Brookline Ave. and Francis St. Boston location--appealed the EPA decision, contending that an energy plant incorporated by Harvard as a for-profit institution failed to qualify for the exemption...
Judge Hugh Bownes, who wrote the decision, ruled that although MATEP itself is indeed a power plant incorporated under Massachusetts business statutes, "the meaning of 'non-profit institution' does not turn on whether a corporate entity exists or on how it might be classified...
...poverty. The manufacturers and investors claimed wealth as their right, since they built the factories and paid the workers' salaries. Marx and Engels argued that the workers were being deprived of the very thing that gave them worth in society-the fruits of their labor. For capitalists to profit from the workers' labor was theft...
...relative weakness and vulnerability." Richard Pipes, the hard-line anti-Soviet historian from Harvard who now serves as a specialist on Communist affairs for the National Security Council staff, stresses offensive over the defensive drives. "Militarism," he says, "is as central to Soviet Communism as the pursuit of profit is to capitalist societies," and this militarism has mixed with what he calls "Russia's traditional expansionism...