Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Councillor Kathleen L. Born spoke about the profit that some faculty make using university research facilities that are supposed to be used exclusively for education...
...groups have no official ties to the campusthrough other student organizations or the Dean ofStudents' Office, which will not recognizefor-profit student organizations. They havesimilar origins, started several years ago bystudents who went into business...
...until just a few years ago--it is now the crown jewel in the financial giant's strategy for growth. That strategy calls for Citibank and its parent, Citigroup, to reduce their reliance on cyclical corporate and real estate lending, which tends to be high risk and relatively low profit. It will emphasize the lower-risk, higher-margin business of consumer banking--and especially one-stop financial shopping for the world's booming population of the newly rich...
...affirmatively. It is a wish intensified by the fact that he is in the midst of a contentious legal battle against Disney chairman Michael Eisner, the man who didn't think Katzenberg was good enough to be his second-in-command. Katzenberg claims he is owed 2% of the profit from every project he put into production during his 10 years at the company--an amount that could reach $250 million or more...
...peoples the London of 1593 with the usual suspects--Christopher Marlowe (crafty Rupert Everett), Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench, a sly dominatrix)--and some ageless show-biz types: the poverty-pleading producer (Geoffrey Rush), the backer with a lust for limelight (Tom Wilkinson). Director John Madden works in jokes about profit sharing and credit hogging, and a climax in which the real star steps in for an indisposed leading lady...