Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Schrager, a pop-culture junkie who combs through 50 magazines a week, is proving style and attitude are profitable. He has consistently enjoyed 80% to 90% occupancy rates at his properties; the industry average is about 65%. This year, with only six hotels now going at full speed, he expects to turn an operating profit of $120 million, and in a few years his company could be worth $2 billion...
...Tutors" tutor in a wide variety of courses and amount of work they do depends upon availability, $12 per hour; "Program III ESL Tutors" work on language skills primarily with graduate students for whom English is their second language, commit to a minimum of 40 hours per year and profit $600 per year...
...seemingly candid statements printed on the front of cigarette packages conceal a half-century-long intentional campaign to endanger the public for profit. Since a January 1954 meeting in the Plaza Hotel in New York City, several major cigarette manufacturers have been colluding in a heartless battle to deceive the public about long term effects of cigarette smoking. And the federal government has finally decided to take action...
...driven up the cost of guided passage to Phoenix to more than $1,000--triple the price a few years ago. But still they come. "The only real solution is in Mexico," declares Douglas Mayor Ray Borane. "Their government needs to address the flagrant trafficking of humans for profit." Indeed, the traffic has been an economic boon for Agua Prieta, whose 1998 population of 120,000 has swelled an additional 100,000. In the past two years, 15 hotels have opened or started construction, primarily to provide lodging for U.S.-bound job seekers. One of them, Jose Bueno Montano...
...executive director of a New York non-profit, McGruder says many of the white people he encounters do not expect to hear that he is a Harvard graduate...