Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour in steamy firetraps gluing the corduroy cuffs on that barn jacket Exploitation Shmexploitation. Where else you can find a trendy coat for one Alex Hamilton? Besides, by purchasing that fashionable item in the PRC, you're transferring a little bit of an evil big business' 2500 percent profit to an independent Chinese small-business owner, thus funding and nurturing the growth of the nascent middle class in post-Mao China, whose soon-to-be wealthy members, in turn, will spearhead the transformation of the corrupt, market-Leninist, cruel-repressive, authoritarian Chinese state into a free, liberal, shiny-happy, kinder...
...interview last week, Kathryn Brookinscharged that the University used its tax-exempt,not-for-profit status to convince the Boston citygovernment to give it special treatment in zoningfor a for-profit project...
...entrepreneurs large and small have seized on VR, hoping to turn Defense Department-bred technology into show-biz profit. Companies from the Hudson River to Tokyo Bay -- the brand names include Paramount Communications, AT&T, Viacom, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Matsushita, Edison Brothers, Hasbro and Time Warner -- are betting cumulative billions on VR. Christopher Gentile of Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, which is developing a home-VR system in Princeton, New Jersey, predicts virtual game shows by 1996. How about 3-D TV? Shopping by VR? The Home Sex Network? "If someone gets there in the home with the right quality and cost," notes...
Writing instructors could equally profit from such changes. Setting a clear dichotomy between the expository writing instructor and the discipline-specific writing instructor would create separate standards for each. In the first semester, the course could adopt a lecture format combined with weekly personal tutorials. The seminar-style classes in use discourages the instructor from really leading the class; the lecture format would permit him or her to play a greater role...
From White's, I headed to the Harvest Co-operative supermarket, which has a profit-sharing system which works like the Coop's is supposed to. There are more types of Basmati rice and oat-based grains on sale at Harvest than I ever knew existed. The supermarket also boasts a message board on which locals advertise for roommates ("Two Lesley Grad Students in expressive therapies and one creativity workshop facilitator seek non-smoker to share Central Square apartment with...