Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard knowingly sanctioned a purchase of a stock whose sole profit making function is pornography, we certainly don't agree with that," said Melissa J. Gambol '99, treasurer of RUS and a spokesperson for the RUS board...
Really. "This is the most important thing that will happen to the Web next year," says Bob Glushko, Tenenbaum's point man on XML and director of CommerceNet's for-profit spinoff, CNGroup. "XML," says Eckart Walther, product manager for browser leader Netscape, which, along with archrival Microsoft, has already climbed aboard the XML bandwagon, "is going to be as big as the Web itself...
That money, and the desire for more of it, figured in the decision should startle few people. But the profit motive does not fully explain the reasoning behind the new Joy. A number of experts feel that the 1975 version, published when Gerald Ford was in the White House, has been overtaken and outdated by contemporary events. "That was the era of Linus Pauling and vitamin C and the common cold," says Marion Nestle, chairman of the department of nutrition at New York University and a Joy contributor. "Frances Moore Lappe's book Diet for a Small Planet had just...
...mines and, en route, to plant a few. The smile of journalist Merton Densher (Linus Roache) carries a soft ruefulness, something that understands failure. And in the smile of Maude's niece Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter), there is a sly gravity, a love of intrigue for revenge or profit. Kate is up to some serious mischief...
Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation and on-air commentator for the MSNBC network, criticized the media for putting profit-making before accurate and unbiased news coverage at a brown-bag lunch yesterday at the John F. Kennedy School's Taubman Center...