Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money is allowing Just-A-Start Corp., a local non-profit organization, to purchase a 273-unit former expiring-use apartment building on Rindge Avenue...
Advocates of low-income housing also have proposed a new 1.5 percent fee on all sales of residential property and a major bond authorization, in order to fund the non-profit purchase of former rent-controlled buildings...
...says. "They butchered him on the stand." Found guilty of theft--despite the fact that both the ideas and notebooks were his--Taborsky was given a year's suspended sentence, a year under house arrest and 15 years' probation. And, the judge ordained, he was forbidden to use or profit from his notes or his invention...
...American Graffiti's unexpected success to renegotiate his contract with Fox for directing Star Wars--not for more money but for exclusive rights to sequels and licensing, evidence that he must have had some faith in the movie. And since licensing in the mid-'70s wasn't the huge profit center for studios it is today--Star Wars helped create that too--Lucas' deal was arguably even more farsighted than the resulting film. Today he is as much a businessman as he is a filmmaker: his shrewd skill in reinvesting his profits (among other things, he owns Industrial Light & Magic...
...siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan movies, and as a specialty, Westfall says, "Jiggs would always grin with his upper lip above his mouth.'' In retirement, Jiggs has become an artist--a simian Grandpa Moses--and sales of his paintings are to fund the Cheeta Project, a non-profit foundation that will aid other chimps and keep Jiggs on his daily diet of fruit, Purina Monkey Chow and the occasional Oreo as a treat. Tarzan's tree house was never like this...