Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THIS IS THE AGE OF PRIVATIZATION. All across America, communities are hiring for-profit firms to perform the tasks that have traditionally fallen to government--educating children, running prisons, even building and maintaining highways. There is one job, though, that seems to be an unlikely candidate for outsourcing: executing the foreign policy of the U.S. If that is not the business of the Federal Government, what is? In Bosnia, however, the U.S. has a problem: there is one particular aspect of its mission that is crucial but that it is loath to carry out. So the very 1990s solution...
...always to be 'enemy' and 'victor' with no hope of transcending those designations that kill and divide, then it appears that we can take no profit from tragedy and that the future will always be held hostage to the past," he added...
...runaway medical costs engendered under the fee-for-service approach, in which doctors have an interest in doing everything their patients might require, and possibly more than that, provided an insurer is paying the tab. But Himmelstein and other physicians believe the bottom-line philosophy of for-profit HMOs has pushed the pendulum too far in the opposite direction...
...gives people a longer high," notes Ed Mayer, head of the Jackson County, Oregon, Narcotics Enforcement Team. For decades, its manufacture and distribution was a low-level enterprise dominated by motorcycle gangs. The current surge is driven by powerful Mexican syndicates, which have found that meth offers far greater profit margins than cocaine or heroin...
LAST-MINUTE SHOPPERS Procrastinators profit from sales meant for the sticker...