Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lucrative as it might be, partly because he seldom sells his pictures to network television (he hates the commercials) and because he would rather sacrifice money than lose the unlimited creative control he has over his work. "All Woody wants to do is make a dollar profit," Joffe reports. "He's always saying to me, 'If I make a dollar profit, then I can go on to the next picture...
...Campaign for Economic Democracy, a group started by Tom Hayden and his Oscar-winning wife, Jane Fonda. They are promoting rent control up and down California. As Fonda told a tenants' group outside San Francisco last week, "We're not trying to screw landlords out of their profits, but we have to find a way for people to get a roof over their heads while landlords make a decent profit. What we have to do is eliminate the greed quotient...
...policy of the government seemed to be: Don't push democracy too hard. At the same tune, Deng and his allies had a message for foreign businessmen hoping to profit from China's opening to the West: Don't push industrialization too fast. Japanese companies suddenly found themselves prevented from fulfilling 30 contracts worth $2.1 billion for plants and machinery, as Peking appeared to have second thoughts about its massive Four Modernizations campaign. The cutback also hit American corporations. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel, both of which were on the verge of closing multimillion dollar deals...
Wesley E. Profit '69, instructor in psychology at the McLEAN Hospital and another author of the letter, said yesterday the current dissatisfaction with Harvard's policy toward its South Africa related investments "shows that the University hasn't learned anything in the last ten years...
...Years of Afro-American Studies--Skip Griffin, president of Afro, 1969; Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies emeritus; Wes Profit, Afro member; Mark Smith, Afro member, and Dara Bowin; Science Center...