Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mokray, a Central Square resident and scholar of economic development; Sarah James, the principal of Sarah James and Associates, a Cambridge community-planning and development consulting firm; Jason Upshaw, a 19-year-old entrepreneur in Central Square, and Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Greater Boston director of Working Capital, a non-profit focused on assisting small business owners with training and peer lending...
...this the full extent of the exploitation of political prisoners. As the famed dissident Harry Wu has noted, the Chinese regime is so gain-hungry (as Deng Xiaoping's famous slogan runs, "It is glorious to get rich") that it ekes profit out of political prisoners even after their death. The sale of organs of executed prisoners to foreigners willing to put up cash for a quick transplant is an approved practice in China. In life as in death, Chinese citizens are treated as government chattel...
...rival offers, and BT could choose to raise its bid, although it can ill afford a bidding war. BT, whose shareholders were unhappy with the MCI deal, may simply decide to walk away. That would leave the company's global strategy adrift but provide a nice $1.3 billion profit on its MCI investment. "The player who benefits most from WorldCom's bid is BT," says Gary Stibel, founder of the New England Consulting Group, whose clients have included local and long-distance phone companies. Stibel calls MCI a questionable acquisition because its share of the $70 billion long-distance market...
Hart began publishing his pieces electronically--strictly for pleasure, not profit. Indeed, he warned readers that if he caught anyone trying to poach his stuff, he would "hunt them down like the suture-headed mutants they are." Two years later, his site was drawing a couple thousand visitors a day. Until, that is, the evil lawyers interceded...
More to the point, Holland is fiercely protective of her independence as an artist, citing how many maverick filmmakers "make one interesting movie, and then the next thing they do is some thriller made for profit." Holland did not, however, buy into the notion of a "revived" independent cinema that dovetailed with the success of The English Patient, Secrets & Lies and other non-Hollywood pictures late last year. Again, her multicultural background clearly affords her a unique perspective...