Word: profitable
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...America's sugar growers, how sweet it still is. The industry's profit-enhancing price supports are mostly still standing. The program keeps the cost of domestic sugar at nearly twice the world level, and critics say it takes a $1.4 billion yearly bite out of U.S. consumers' pockets. "When it comes to sugar, there is just no reform," complains John Frydenlund, director of agricultural policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "It's a colossal disappointment...
Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA) is a non-profit, student-run organization. Phillips Brooks House (PBH) is a department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Kidd heads that department and all of its staff report...
...Terner was appointed director of housing and community development for the city of California. He then established the BRIDGE Housing Corporation, a non-profit organization which has constructed more than 6,000 units of low-cost housing throughout San Francisco...
Bagel purveyors love their product for the same reason consumers do--it's tasty yet inexpensive. But they also see the bagel as the next great food platform upon which sandwiches and snacks--and greater profit--can be built. Outfits such as Bruegger's Bagel Bakery, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Chesapeake Bagel Bakery, Manhattan Bagel, Noah's New York Bagels, Big Apple Bagels (Do you detect a theme here?) and the Great American Bagel are rolling into communities that wouldn't know the real thing from a catcher's mitt. Says Jack Grumet, ceo of the Manhattan Bagel Co.: "What happened...
...industries it seeks to stabilize. For instance, by spending billions to insulate the nation's dwindling shipbuilding industry from cheaper foreign competition, the government may be temporarily salvaging high-paying jobs. But why put more ships into the water when the ones already afloat are having trouble making a profit? Still, this Depression-era program stands a good chance of being renewed this year--in no small measure because maritime unions and business PACs have contributed more than $17 million to congressional campaigns over the past decade, according to the watchdog group Common Cause...