Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secret Project. Not much of the Hughes Aircraft profit has gone to the medical institute. From 1964 to 1973, Hughes Medical received $21.6 million from the company; in the same period it gave back $8.8 million to Hughes Aircraft as repayment of a loan and spent only $8.8 million for medical research. Until now, the IRS has not compelled it to conform to the 1969 Tax Reform Act, which requires private foundations to disburse a fixed percentage of their assets. In the wake of Hughes' death, the Government may take a much closer look at the medical institute...
...Blanche and Lumley pursue the loot they discover that the Rainbird heir is a prosperous young jeweler named Adamson (William Devane), who combines his passion for gems with a taste for kidnaping. Ransom for his victims is demanded-and delivered-in the form of precious stones. The profit margin is high, and Adamson's personal life flourishes too: criminality sharpens his carnal appetites, which are centered mostly around Fran (Karen Black), his partner in bed and crime...
...contrast, Jackson also has listened to Kenneth J. Arrow, a Harvard professor and co-winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics. Arrow last year signed a declaration condemning capitalism for producing "primarily for corporate profit" and calling for a search for alternatives to prevailing Western economic systems...
Sexism and its cultural and tradition-linked contradictions emerge in highly charged exchanges between an intense, riveting Arthur (Jeffrey Rubin) and Ala (Diana Silver). Arthur argues for a practical marriage based on "pleasure and profit" while hypocritically undermining his criticism of loose mores with a blunt display of sexual aggression...
...suffering seriously from the calm in food costs. Farmers may be getting less for what they produced than in 1972 and 1973, but they are still doing well. Says Agriculture Department Economist Dawson Ahalt: "What they have lost in prices they are making up in volume." Moreover, profit margins for processors, wholesalers and retailers remain healthy...