Word: profitable
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...According to Huang, "The 'real stuff'--shows unmangled by censorship and poor English dubbing jobs--was available only by a few small commercial companies at relatively expensive prices or through fansubs, which are subtitled translations done by fans for fans, not for profit. In the past years, the commercial scene has grown tremendously as the market has blossomed...
Harvard is the one of the richest non-profit institutions on the planet. Second only to the Vatican, its endowment, which, after an energetic five-year Capital Campaign, recently exceeded $14 billion, far outweighs the financial resources of any other university in the world...
That Harvard does not currently pay its employees enough to live in the community where they work--where many, indeed, were born and raised--reveals its blatant disregard for the people of Cambridge. We would do well to remember that, given its status as a non-profit institution, Harvard is not required by law to pay taxes...
...think the problem is that to recruit students the way the big i-banking and consulting firms do is just beyond the means of smaller companies," Rahn says. "An educational non-profit can't fly people out to Harvard to recruit the way a Silicon Valley technology firm...
...does Harvard really want to further the climate of antagonism and distrust that rules contemporary sweatshop debates? This would be the result of a policy that reveals factories to independent organizations, yet bars them from the decision-making process. Harvard, as a rich, non-profit institution, can afford to take a chance on an idea that puts the lauded "openness" of our global economy to work for those who are still waiting to see its benefits...