Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should not want to make a profit at the expense of the community it lives in. Other non-profits limit their profit-margin...Harvard should be doing the same," said Robinson, a Cambridge resident...
...administration doesn't see students as its priority, what doesn't as its priority? Harvard claims to serve both students and Cantabrigians alike, but the Harvard Corporation actually functions to profit at the expense of both communities. In conflicts between the interests of the University community and the Corporation, the administration sides with corporate interests almost without fail. While corporate concerns can be hidden in the relationship between the University and students, they become painfully evident in relations between the University and its workers and tenants...
...Cambridge last year, residents have not been able to rely on Harvard, one of the city's largest landlords, to provide long-term affordable housing. Rather than living up to its officially touted goals of supporting the Cambridge community, the Harvard Corporation is currently pursuing a detrimental but profit-maximizing strategy which would keep only eight of its 700 housing units reasonbly priced. Local leaders have demanded that Harvard sell its buildings to the city, which would still give Harvard a substantial return. Instead the Corporation plans to reap larger gains while driving long-term neighbors from their homes...
...character of Caliban (Jack Willis) also goes against convention. Instead of a quick-tempered, bestial brute, Daniels casts Caliban as a calm, wry cynic. He thus lends a shrewd, cynical edge to lines usually spoken in anger or resentment: "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse; the red plague rid you for learning me your language...
...Judge Leon Higginbotham of the Kennedy School of Government testified on the subject of affirmative action before a United States Senate subcommittee on the Constitution. So did the president of the United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC), Susan Au Allen. USPAACC is a national non profit organization representing Asian American men and women in business and other professions...