Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profited more from the killing frenzy than Arkan. Since the paramilitaries from Serbia were paid mainly in what they could steal, theft provoked many atrocities. Arkan reportedly had a price list for "liberating" a town: say, 2 million to 3 million German marks ($1 million to $2 million), plus all the loot from the police station and bank, plus right of passage for 30 cars, plus everything his men could carry. The Tigers' plunder attracted "weekend warriors" from Belgrade's underworld who would pillage for profit. Arkan brags he does not consider himself a war criminal. An indictment...
...wrong in and of itself. To figure out if the students deserve sympathy or scorn, we need to look further than coarse categorizations of drugs and drug dealers. Were they disruptive influences in the community, whose own lives had been ruined by their drug use and were reaping huge profits selling drugs to otherwise clean students, making so much money they needed to use violence to protect their stash? Or were they two students who were part of a culture that accepted these drugs (both were known to enjoy raves; one even wrote his senior thesis on raves), and sold...
Lili Allen, the director and spokesperson of the non-profit CCS, works with many of Cambridge's less fortunate residents every...
Employees at Cultural Survival, Inc., a non-profit human rights organization, situated at 46 Brattle St., worried that the fire might delay an upcoming festival of women's indigenous films...
...profit, but now we're really going to be non-profit," another employee added...