Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidenced by the fact that "he would not accept much money" for passing Moscow's secrets to the U.S. This behavior, coupled with his commitment to remain in Russia to right the wrongs within the Soviet system, shows that he was the antithesis of Ames, a piece of profit-oriented garbage. Why is someone like Ames extended the courtesy of a life prison sentence? It would seem his very existence poses a security threat...
...bank designed to do good works, and not even make a profit, earn such a bad reputation? The World Bank, which is 50 years old this year, ought to be celebrating its career as the Mother Teresa of global finance. All told, the bank has extended $300 billion in loans to pay for 6,000 projects ranging from Japan's bullet train to a cataract-surgery clinic in India that will serve 11 million people. Instead of inspiring congratulations, however, the institution's golden anniversary has drawn damning accusations that the bank has damaged the environment, bolstered authoritarian regimes...
...other people's numbers, managed to rake in up to $200,000 in just six months before police raided the store in June. "They were basically operating their own phone company," says Bill Brush of the Secret Service, the agency involved in breaking up the ring. "It was pure profit...
...ventures: Special Report Network, a series of videos and magazines that was aimed at patients waiting in doctors' offices, and a publishing division that produced advertiser-sponsored books. To raise cash, the company is negotiating the sale to Wall Street's Goldman, Sachs of half the equity in its profit- making Channel One, the advertiser-backed TV news program currently being shown in 12,000 U.S. public schools. Also for sale is Whittle's 50% interest in the $55 million, Ivy Leagueish corporate headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee, which he built only three years...
...service industries, is alive and well and following the Grateful Dead around this land. If you get the chance, check it out when it comes to a stadium or arena near you. The love that Deadheads have for each other and for the society they have created keeps profit down and spirits high. And, as Jerry Garcia himself can tell you, without love in a dream it'll never come true...