Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operation elsewhere, but HCHP was, and still is, the only plan of its kind in Boston. Like a conventional health insurance plan, HCHP collects a monthly charge from its members, who need only reside in the greater Boston area to join. But unlike those conventional plans, HCHP is non-profit, and is itself responsible for providing the health care that its monthly charge guarantees. Members go to one of two HCHP facilities for all basic services, which are provided either at no additional charge or in some cases at merely a nominal charge...
Much of the profit is going to Latin America's already café-riche class of exporters, brokers and large plantation owners. But in some countries, coffee is also grown by peasants who farm minuscule plots. Since a frost in 1975 shriveled more than half the coffee trees in Brazil, buyers have been bidding for extra beans at prices that have raised some farmers above the subsistence level for the first time in their lives. In Haiti, where malnutrition is as common as sunshine, the peasants scratch out a hardscrabble living raising coffee in tiny backyard jardins, drying...
Plantation Profits. There are some very big exceptions. In Colombia, surging coffee revenues have been accompanied by a riptide of 26% inflation. There, the oligarchic semiofficial Fedecafe sets coffee policies and controls 42% of the trade, while 28 private exporting companies dominate the rest of the market in high-quality beans. The nation's 130,000 backlot growers cannot afford soaring prices for fertilizers, fungicides and equipment. Except in Central America and Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias...
...disgusted that some American businessman would do anything to make a profit out of detente," Kuchment said. He specifically cricitized Donald M. Kendall, president of Pepsi-Cola...
...world's finest cities." At the White House and at luncheons with House and Senate foreign relations committees, Callaghan pressed hard for the Concorde's admission. Aides said he was "throwing all his prestige" behind the jet for "national dignity" rather than mere profit...