Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Would not Bosnia--I hear it's lovely this time of year--profit if tens of thousands of tourists were to descend with dollars and cameras? Would the Heisenberg gaze of strangers shame the ethnic purifiers and spoil the snipers' aim? Would commercialism defeat tribalism? Or maybe Disney could take over the war and give the fighters blanks and dummy mortar shells to fire: they would enact their hatreds daily as a permanent tourist attraction...
...Grady is yet another victim of the media, which are trying to make a profit from his ordeal. You have pushed him into playing the role of hero, but deep inside he realizes he is not one and is being used. We have lost perspective on what a true hero is. We have many of them, quite a few unrecognized -- especially our veterans from Vietnam. Peter Bruchhausen New York City...
...anymore, instead of enjoying the stage you are in?" asks Dr. Nada Stotland, 51, an HRT dropout. Stotland, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago, says she is "extra skeptical, because there are powerful forces that aim one toward prescribed hormones, but there is no profit motive in not prescribing something...
...Edmund de Rothschild and RCA's David Sarnoff. They put about $1 million into his company, but after growing nervous about Vesco's grandiose expansion plans, they allowed him to buy them out for only $12,500 (all except Rothschild, who stayed in and after 18 months made a profit of more than $1 million on his $250,000 investment). By 1965 Vesco had incorporated his company, and by financial sleight of hand, he took his International Controls Corp. public without sec scrutiny. He bought controlling shares of a public company, merged it with ICC, and renamed the resulting company...
...seniors organization. "We are here not only because AARP has drifted from its stated mission of representing senior citizens," Simpson told the Senate Finance subcommittee he chairs, "but also because I believe the evidence is clear that AARP has also drifted considerably from any reasonable description of a non-profit organization." Perhaps as testimony to the financial muscle of AARP, no other Republican members of the panel showed up. Just two Democrats -- Sens. David Pryor of Arkansas and John Breaux of Louisiana -- stood by Simpson. At the end of the day, AARP released a statement accusing Simpson of trying...