Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first. Western experts say his bank ran a classic Ponzi scheme, using new deposits to pay the interest on old ones. At the same time, diplomats say, Vasiljevic used his customers' hard currency to buy sanctioned goods like oil on the black market and sell it for a handsome profit. Vasiljevic denies all the charges. "The wonderful thing about sanctions is that they create real profit opportunities," says a State Department official. "When you have these rates of inflation, anytime you can use someone else's money for a short time you can get rich...
Earthwatch, a non-profit environmental organization based in Water-town, announced last week a sweep-stakes contest co-sponsored with Soho Beverages which is intended to promote awareness of environmental issues...
While staff members are currently non-paid, Shapiro said a profit-sharing plan will go into effect if the publication begins to make money...
Perot, whose November bid for the presidency claimed nineteen percent of the popular vote, founded UWSA as a non-profit organization to challenge the present political situation...
...Crichton's novel, eccentric zillionaire John Hammond funds a project to clone dinosaur DNA taken from bloodsucking insects that were trapped in ancient amber to "bring them back alive, so to speak." The experiment's success goads Hammond to exploit the made-from-concentrate behemoths for profit. He hatches the dinosaurs on a Central American island and builds a theme park around them. Before the scheduled opening, a few guests -- including craggy paleontologist Alan Grant, lissome paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and Hammond's two young grandchildren -- come to Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel...