Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those polysyllabic German jawbreakers, pollsters claim that the voters are displaying a higher degree of Risikobereitschaft, or willingness to take risks. Brandt's reform-minded Socialists, with their advocacy of revaluation of the German mark, bridge-building to the East, and greater worker participation in management and profit sharing will be the direct beneficiaries. Their constructive role as a partner in the Grand Coalition has helped them overcome the old fears that the "Sozis" would run wild if they gained power...
Similar U.S. attempts in the past have proved frustrating, largely because drug smuggling is a high-profit, low-risk trade. The new treasure of the Sierra Madre is a traditional sideline crop for thousands of small Mexican farmers. They get up to 40 times as much for a kilo of the prized "Acapulco Gold" as they do for a kilo of corn. In Guerrero state, eager peasants using fertilizer and irrigation can harvest four crops a year. In Tijuana, enterprising merchants package marijuana in 1.8-kilo bricks -gift-wrapped at Christmas time-that cost $35 and contain enough...
...debacle of Hitler's Reich and the Allied mopping-up operation can make for depressing reading. Unhappily. FitzGibbon's book will probably find few readers from the one group in the U.S. that could profit most from its perspectives-the more violent and mostly youthful would-be revolutionaries who fail to see that indulging in millennial fantasies of total cauterizing power is likely to be followed by immediate realities of sheer hell...
will rent or sell the land. The Mt. Auburn St. site will be developed by the Cambridge Corporation, a non-profit organization established by Harvard and M. I. T. to aid local low-income housing, while the West Cambridge site will go to Starrett Brothers and Eken, a private housing development company...
...time he departed five days later. Kosygin flew to Calcutta and was en route to Dushanbe in Soviet Central Asia when the Chinese leaders finally approved the meeting. Though Kosygin's long detour was interpreted as a loss of face for the Russians, Moscow should ultimately profit from having demonstrated its willingness to forsake protocol in the interests of peace...