Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that two-thirds of premature deaths (those prior to age 65) are due to smoking, excessive drinking, improper diet, lack of exercise, violence, environmental abuse or dangerous sexual practices; in other words, behavior choices that are preventable and that in many cases are influenced by marketing ploys of major, profit-driven companies. Stopping people from making these unhealthy choices is not easy because of the complexity of emotions, intelligence and societal influences that shape decisions of individuals and populations at large...
...Since no profit-driven system is likely to serve or finance all the basic needs of the sick and elderly, we are finding more and more that religious groups can fill the gap between those things for which a health-care system can pay and the many services it will never provide. Thousands of congregations have found that this is an exciting and gratifying way to practice what we profess to accept from our Holy Scripture...
...Charles River Watershed Association, a non-profit citizen's group, will sample river water for levels of fecal coliform bacteria tomorrow as part of a five-year study on Charles River contamination...
Sweeney further notes that Radcliffe, as a not-for-profit organization, is not subject to the same standards of fiscal responsibility as for-profit groups. Radcliffe, she says, might reasonably engage in deficit spending if such a policy benefits its students...
...they right? It's hard to know whom to believe in this cloak-and-dagger debate. Civil libertarians tend to gloss over the fact that the world is full of bad people with crimes to hide. The software industry--which makes 48% of its profit overseas--is clearly less concerned with privacy than with losing foreign sales. And it may be no accident that the Administration chose to start making concessions the same week an influential software CEO--Netscape's Jim Barksdale--excoriated Clinton's cryptopolicy and endorsed Bob Dole...