Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's clear. But if the auto companies aren't selling their gas guzzlers, why are the oil companies making huge profits? Exxon just made $1.9 billion in three months, a 101.6% increase over its obscene profit in 1979's first quarter...
Though the details are still sketchy, CBS plans an aggressive campaign to capture part of the rapidly growing cable market. It will not compete with pay TV networks like Time Inc.'s Home Box Office, but will make its profit by selling the new CBS channel to cable systems around the country and to advertisers...
...motive in showing in film makes no difference; the Founding Fathers knew that profit motivates much in America, and they intended protection for more than the altruistic. And the level of support within the House should not be a factor either--the First Amendment is absolutely drawn, and guarantees the rights of even the smallest minorities. If one student wants to show Deep Throat, he should have that freedom without the fear of legal prosecution. And it challenged, he or she should go ahead and show the film--to uphold the First Amendment for others...
...statement released by the committee after the arrest of two students for showing "Deep Throat" said the protesters do not advocate censorship. "What we ask is that our peers not promote this depiction of violence against women for profit. As fellow students, we have no power to enforce censorship nor do we seek it," the statement says...
...form of snuff films. In these films, the leading woman (inevitably an aspiring young actress) is beaten, raped and murdered--in the film and in reality as well. It is now illegal to make such films in the U.S., yet they are still imported and shown and turn a profit. As Linda Lovelace commented, referring to her period of sexual slavery, "I thank God today that they weren't making snuff movies back then." In this case, as in every other, the huge profits from the pornography go to the people in charge--the pimps...