Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions as the basis of further exploration. Using a question-and-answer format that is generally successful, they argue that the real source of world hunger is the social framework in which it occurs. "Once the livelihood of millions of self-provisioning farmers," they write, "agriculture is becoming the profit base of influential commercial entrepeneurs--traditional landed elites, city-based agricultural speculators, and foreign corporations." Studies show that large landholders who use traditional labor-intensive techniques tend to be much less efficient than their smaller counterparts, who draw as much as possible out of the soil. Large landowners who mechanize...
...Third World, and gear their production to high-income consumers overseas. These corporations, a spreading phenomenon, concentrate on growing luxury foodstuffs for the consumers of the western world rather than on feeding the poor peasants who live next to the plantations. Examples of the effects of such profit-maximizing morality abound, and Lappe and Collins use them unsparingly in their effort to persuade their readers. In Mexico, land that once grew corn for peasants' diets is now used for strawberries and flowers for the U.S. while the people there starve. In Senegal, California-based Bud Antle grows vegetables...
Some builders regard the M.I.T.-Harvard study as excessively gloomy. They contend that income is not the only measure of whether a family can afford to buy; huge numbers of people own houses that they can sell at a profit and use the equity to help buy another. The median-priced new house is out of sight for millions of people, but by definition, half of all houses are priced below the median. Even young first-time buyers can usually find something in the lower price ranges, though often it will be much less house than they dreamed about...
...they can make?better than a savings account, better than bonds, far better than the sagging stock market. The price may be a shock and the monthly payments a severe strain, but many families think the value of their home is bound to jump. Even if it does, the profit is only on paper until the house is resold, and most families will then have to buy another house at inflated prices. But they do get a big break; profit on the sale of a house is not taxed at all if it is reinvested in another home within...
...expects to expand to 24 by next season. Says he: "It's the best investment in sports. Right now, all you need is $250,000 cash and the ability to cope with some initial losses." He seems to be right; half a dozen owners may have turned a profit for the first time this past season, pushed into the black by the sport's growing audience. No longer confined solely to ethnic groups nostalgic for the old country, U.S. soccer crowds now include large numbers of women (40% of fans are female) and suburban, upper-middle-class executives...