Word: profitable
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After deducting the cost of canal and aqueduct construction, the net profit for Minnesota will be $17.5 trillion, or $3.8 million per person. Placed in a trust fund earning 6% interest, divided fifty-fifty between individual citizen and state treasury, the sale of Lake Superior would provide an annual sum of more than $100,000 to every Minnesota resident...
...Mikhail Gorbachev and the rapid unraveling of Soviet authority. With no federal checks on local power, according to Yablokov, these laws became the legal basis for the devastation of natural resources. Local politicians are quite happy with this situation because it gives them a free hand to turn a profit...
When that moment comes, neither the problems nor the solutions will be Russia's alone. Those who are pushing the clanking machines toward the forests' edge and those who will profit from the Siberian harvest need to be responsible and restrained. The high technology and efficiency of the West can help reduce rampant waste and pollution, but they can also speed destruction...
...month-old company that has never earned a profit and has given away most of the software it has created. Not bad for Netscape co-founder Jim Clark, who, by day's end--when the stock price finally settled at a more reasonable $58.25--was worth $565 million. And not bad for fellow co-founder Marc Andreessen, the 24-year-old programming tyro, whose stake made him a millionaire 58.25 times over...
...mammogram," saysTIME's Christine Gormanabout a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study says that women who begin mammography before the age of 50 may not be increasing their chances of early detection of breast cancer. The American Cancer Institute -- a private, non-profit organization -- continues to recommend regular mammographic exams starting at age 40. "The problem for patients," saysTIME's Janice Castro, "is that if there is no scientific basis for early mammography, insurance companies will refuse to pay for it. Any woman who feels she needs it may have...