Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modernizations"-the upgrading of industry, agriculture, science and technology, and the military-formally announced by then Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping three years ago. In a radical departure from past practice, local farm and factory managers are increasingly deciding what to produce on the basis of what will make a profit. After filling their state quotas, they have been given considerable freedom to sell some of their products directly to other factories or on the free market, and they keep part of the resulting profits to use as they see fit, primarily to pay bonuses to workers and buy additional...
While the University opposes allowing Cambridge to regulate the expansion of any non-profit organization, it thought a special exemption for Harvard was "bad public policy," Schmidt added...
...Massachusetts Constitution has long been interpreted to give Harvard a privileged status on local regulations, but the extent of those privileges remained unclear. In 1979, the legislature decided to let Cambridge regulate the expansion of non-profit religious and educational institutions but exempted Harvard because of its unusual constitutional status...
...business district. Squads of Communist Youth League zealots searched every shop and warehouse. Merchandise was seized; stores were padlocked. Employers of more than five people were denounced as exploiters of the working class. Family-run produce markets were allowed to stay in business-but only if they held their profit margins...
Some of the ratings are a bit obvious. Since the average daily population of a cemetery, not to mention the total daily population and the peak instant population, are low, the department rated it the most desirable non-profit use for a neighborhood...