Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Power. The increase seemed to catch Washington off guard. President Ford ordered an investigation by his Council on Wage and Price Stability. Acting Director William Lilley III asked National for production, cost and profit-and-sales data and said the market appears to be no stronger than last summer. COWPS, however, has no power to do anything except complain-and perhaps pass the buck to President-elect Jimmy Carter, who is committed to trying to get industry and labor to follow voluntary wage-price guidelines...
...yesterday's speech Wilson said that utility executives "are interested in making a profit" and "would not actively campaign for the establishment of nuclear plants until convinced that they would make money...
Guided by the new catalogue, students will shun pre-professional courses and embrace the arts, the humanities, the "impractical" social and physical sciences. Why settle for the cash value of an M.D., J.D., or M.B.A. when the return on truth is infinite? It is an Adam Smith dream: the profit motive, at play in the market place of ideas, will save liberal education...
...called "new left." Three times in this century the American left has tried and failed. But now there are those who say the conditions are finally right for acheiving the traditional goal of the left: a radically new society, based on the rationality of social need instead of profit...
...features and columnists, Schiff gave increasingly short shrift to news coverage. Her tightfistedness with the Post editorial budget extended to approving all out-of-town trips for reporters. Despite the paper's midday monopoly, circulation and advertising began to dwindle, and the paper has been barely making a profit...