Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Profits from pornography are immense. For publishers of sex magazines, profit margins run as high as 50 per cent of retail cost...
...CBUA, a non-profit organization, chose the seldom-used Roxbury site for the festival in 1968 to draw members from all of Boston's communities...
...Invest Your Money and Profit from Inflation, Shulman
...memos and business letters in which a former ABC lawyer reportedly claims that ABC officials and a Hollywood production company participated in a scheme that deprived Screen Stars Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner of more than $500,000 to which the couple were entitled because of their 45% profit rights on Charlie's Angels. If the district attorney eventually brings a case, it will be the first major criminal fraud charge ever filed as a result of the kind of fee accounting practices that, some insiders claim, are too common in the entertainment industry. The allegations were first reported...
...Rifkin himself admits the change is virtually unnoticed. One spectacular example is Billy Graham's conversion from nuke-the-Russian-Antichrist-cold-warrior to disarmament-peacenik-one-worlder, but Graham knows he is in a very small minority. Is the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship likely to abandon the profit margin for a few more trees and whales just because Rifkin thinks the charismatics should pick up this redefinition as their marching banner? If anything, the Pentecostal revival is a reaction against the new values, against social innovations and moral liberalizations and for the American way of life...