Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once more presidential advisers arrived by another to explain new details in Hillary Rodham Clinton's commodities trading in the 1970s. Until that moment, the White House had stated that Mrs. Clinton had, in a 10-month period, turned a $1,000 investment into a remarkable $100,000 profit in one trading account and lost $1,009 on a second...
...White House disclosed that a second commodities-trading account maintained by Hillary Rodham Clinton during 1979 and 1980 produced a $6,500 profit -- not a $1,000 loss as the couple had previously maintained. The cost to the Clintons: $14,615 in back taxes and interest they agreed to pay voluntarily. President Clinton complained tartly to newspaper editors that it was impossible to recall precisely family finances of 15 years ago: "You think I should have shut the whole Federal Government down and done nothing but study these things for the last two months...
About 100 students, faculty and alumni from around the country attended the all-day conference, which took place at the Sheraton Commander Hotel. The FAC, a self-described centrist, non-profit organization committed to the protection of First Amendment freedoms on university campuses, sponsored the event...
...coincidence, Wall Street's big winners have been firms that are leaders in designing and selling derivatives. Record earnings at Goldman Sachs brought joy to its 161 partners, who each reportedly got $5 million or more in profit sharing, which they can withdraw when they leave the company. The results brought even greater glee to 10 senior partners, who are believed to have got more than $25 million each in profit sharing. At Merrill Lynch, which raked in $1.3 billion after taxes, directors awarded chairman Daniel P. Tully $9.6 million in salaries and bonuses in 1993, an increase of more...
America's lifting the embargo on Vietnam has people in both countries talking about reconciliation, even friendship. Let us be clear. Vietnam wants the U.S. in the region as a counterweight to China. The profit motive drives America's wish for relations with Vietnam. Anyone susceptible to the sentimental image of the U.S. and Vietnam as lion and lamb lying down together can be cured by a visit to the war museum in Saigon, where the propaganda about American atrocities is ham-handed and offensive, and where G.I. gear is sold at souvenir stands. A great deal of history stands...