Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekly study session and speeches; for years they've been ignored by all but regular readers of Workers Vanguard. But last week they picked a topic explosive enough actually to draw some interest; their contention that Poland's Solidarity union should be busted before it replaced socialism with the profit system drew the fairly spontaneous and very angry crowd of protestors. After all, almost everybody in America (save the Sparts, who almost never agree with the masses) admires Solidarity...
Cooperation between public and private sectors in the form of a "non-profit quasi-governmental organization" that would issue permits for condominium conversion might be the "most promising" method of easing the city's bans on condo conversion, adopted...
...missed the essence of Musashi's philosophy. He advocates clearing the mind of thoughts of life and death so that the fencer can concentrate on strategies that become spontaneous. Similarly, Japanese businessmen forgo short-term profit so that they can concentrate on product perfection, long-term maneuvers and economic victory. We read the book some time ago, and have found the principles most effective in representing our Japanese clients in the U S. market...
Dale Crawford will clear $11 on each of the horses he brings in, not much profit for a month of grueling work. He has written to President Reagan, as he did to Jimmy Carter, suggesting a partial return to the days of old, when hunters could stalk horses and sell them to meat factories. "As it is," he says, "thousands of taxpayers' dollars are being poured down the drain." But out on the Colorado range, matching wits and stamina with the proud mustangs, the bottom line seems a faraway concern. "The excitement of bringing those horses in," says Crawford...
However, some researchers allege that the shift in Hughes' plans was a tax dodge. In fact, Cahill admitted that the Institute's status as an educational, non-profit organization is not secure. "Right now, we are considered an institute," he said. "But it's a year to year thing, and the IRS could change its mind any time...