Word: profitable
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According to a report compiled by the Alan Guttmacher lnstitute, a non-profit group which does research on reproductive issues, the number of abortion providers decreased by 8 percent between 1988 and 1992. And of the abortions that do occur, 93 percent of them take place in clinics or doctor's offices, not hospitals...
...even tried to emulate Los Angeles-style interstate drug dealing, but he had been robbed of $35,000 while trying to purchase cocaine in Los Angeles. Now, however, Q guaranteed to ship him a regular supply of dope in return for half of A-Bone's sales profit. A partnership was born...
...risen above forgettable films such as "The Man With One Red Shoe" and "Bonfire of the Vanities" to carve a name for himself. There is no Tom Hanks action figure, but he is a recognized personality. He has made successful feelgood movies in an industry driven by profit-turning action flicks. His sympathetic performance in a formulaic dying-man role gleaned him an Oscar for "Philadelphia...
Lord Meltdown has an evil plan of his own: to take over Undergrad and build a giant, profit-making electrical plant--the Sir Noble Power Plant--in its place...
...buttonholes his way to political profit. In the last Congress Gingrich introduced three bills to suspend duties on drug ingredients imported by Solvay Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of a large Belgian company based in his Georgia district. In January 1994 Solvay contributed $30,000 to the foundation. In mid-1994, Gingrich pressed the FDA to speed the approval of a drug manufactured by Solvay. Last September Gingrich lobbied the White House and the FDA on behalf of Direct Access Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that was seeking approval for a home test kit to detect the AIDS virus. Soon after, Direct...