Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irritation to city officials, and in the wake of Proposition 2 1/2, the provision allowing Harvard et al to save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually has many city council members predicting a fast-approaching crisis. Nearly half of the total property in Cambridge falls under the non-profit institution exemption...
...city council is now waking up to the fact that a few concessions by Harvard and other schools represent only a drop in the bucket of the property tax funds Cambridge loses every year through the non-profit exemption...
MacArthur, who died three years ago, left most of his estate to the foundation, which awards grants to a variety of non-profit and governmental agencies, and to educators and educational institutions...
While rent control successfully slowed down the increase in rents that has already forced thousands of tenants out of Cambridge, it also created a tremendous incentive for landlords to convert their apartments into condominiums and sacrifice long-term income for a one-time profit...
...declines in industrial production and consumer spending, a September rate of housing starts that was the third lowest on record, a .6% third-quarter drop in total national output of goods and services and even an unexpectedly large $468 million third-quarter loss reported by that onetime paragon of profit, General Motors...