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Word: profitably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Considering inflation and the risk of serving 10-to-20, a $100 stickup is not what it used to be. And why chance it when a little dognaping can turn a bigger profit? According to Duncan Wright, director of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, there has been a marked increase in "demands for ransom to return animals." The ransom bite usually ranges between $150 and $200. Sometimes those seeking ransom do not even have the animal; they pose as dog finders when they see the phone number of a grief-stricken owner in "Dog Lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Pooch Poaching | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Since the company was banned from recruiting on campus in the fall of 1974 because Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, felt its on-campus recruitment meetings could endanger the University's non-profit status, Southwestern recruiters have taken to other methods of attracting students' attention than they once used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Keeps Turning Up | 4/30/1977 | See Source »

Epps banned Southwestern from the campus in the fall of 1974 following a company recruitment meeting on University property, which, Epps said, would compromise the non-profit status of the University...

Author: By William B. Trautman, | Title: Southwestern Holds Recruitment Meeting | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

Harvard called in Howland's 50 member, non-profit firm last week after its contract negotiations with the Harvard Patrolmen's Association stalled over the union's complaints that recent organizational changes had "completely destroyed morale" in the department...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Police Expert Will Evaluate Harvard Force | 4/26/1977 | See Source »

...numbering 4,230-rang up sales of $3.1 billion, 24% more than in 1975. Most of that was kept by franchise operators, but their rent and royalty payments, plus sales of company-owned stores, gave McDonald's $1.2 billion in revenues; the company converted $110 million into profit, about 27% above that of a year earlier. That was enough to permit the company, which had plowed all previous profits back into expansion, to declare its first cash dividends (2½? a quarter). In early May McDonald's signs will be changed to read: OVER 22 BILLION SOLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Still the Champion | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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