Word: profitable
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This summer's baseball strike, like all strikes, had its foibles, not the least of which was an average worker's salary of more than $140,000. But the perception of the players--that, somenow, profit-mongering magnates meant to deprice them of their rights--mirrors a sentiment spreading among American worker most of whom live closer to the economic margin...
Like other right-wing direct-mail operations, the Helms machine has perfected the techniques of turning fear into funds and piety into profit. Nearly every one of the 10 million to 20 million letters mailed from the club each year warns of the growing dangers of Communism and Government social spending. Cautioned Helms in a letter last summer: "In the face of the growing Soviet war machine, the ultra-liberals have virtually disarmed America...
With expensive legal advice from the Washington law firm of Covington and Burling, the club adheres scrupulously to federal campaign-spending laws. But its Jefferson Marketing offshoot is a private, for-profit firm and is thus not required to report how it spends money paid it by the Congressional Club. (A group disbanded last month called the Campaign Committee, which had provided workers for the political campaigns, had similar status.) That makes a detailed examination of the club's activities impossible...
...Khomeini to appear on television inside a court, with a jury of 36 million people, where he would be accorded all the rights he has refused to give us. The problem is not to kill somebody so that the change will come one day sooner. There is more profit for us in making the people understand why Khomeini is guilty...
...local bank by one percentage point. But all Boston savings institutions were outbid by Merchants Bank of Burlington, Vt., which promised to pay 50% on an annual basis-for one month. Said Merchants Bank President Dudley Davis: "This is one of the few opportunities to guarantee a margin of profit for the bank, attract new customers and provide a profitable return to the investor...