Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Skow's story "In Missouri: A Beastly Display" [Jan. 19]-was beastly in more ways than one. His description of the animal auction was grimly reminiscent of slave sales in the antebellum South, conducted for much the same reason: "pleasure" and profit. Today more and more concerned people hope that the slavery of animals eventually will be viewed with the same disgust, and condemned with the same moral righteousness, as human chattel...
...shake-and-break Ten. The headless, vinyl-and-steel contraption was developed as a teaching aid for rodeo cowboys by New Mexico Inventor Joe Turner, who sold his patent to Saloonkeepers Mickey Gilley and Sherwood Cryer for $70-000 in 1979; it has since cleared at least $1 million profit for the partners, who have sold 400 of the critters...
...attempt to get new business, the two men submitted bids on ten remodeling projects of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. But during the three-or four-month delay in obtaining HUD approval, their costs skyrocketed because of inflation. The result: most of the profit on the jobs was lost...
Rozelle's admission has led to revelations that team owners, officials, coaches and players throughout the league have been selling their complimentary tickets to scalpers at huge profits. Each of the contending Super Bowl teams receives 22½% of the available tickets for its fans (a total of about 16,000 seats in New Orleans' 71,330-seat Superdome), while the remaining 26 teams split some 40% of the tickets (the rest go to corporate sponsors and TV networks). As much as six months before the game, scalpers will visit training camps to line up a "ticket captain...
...most colleges, students are failed forthwith when caught submitting ghost work as their own. But few are caught. Only a handful of states (including Maryland and Pennsylvania) have specifically outlawed campus ghostwriting for profit. New York has one of the toughest laws, threatening fines and jail terms of up to 90 days for ghostwriters who help college students with assignments. So far officials have found the law difficult to enforce. New York prosecutors first won a court injunction against Collegiate Research Systems Inc., the target of last week's raid, in 1978. Company President John Magee, 29, responded with...