Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World of Profit, Auchincloss (7) 10. And Other Stories, O'Hara...
...very cordial, and gave me a guided tour around the campus. By the end of the tour the first set of Cambridge guidelines started to topple. We had hoped to select students for the program by their personality, or something we saw in them that hinted they might profit more than someone else from attending school outside their home town. Obviously this was a very subjective judgment but we had set a minimal objective criteria based on grades, class standing, and test scores. However, a large number of those taking the test at this project had never taken an objective...
...signaled the change with some curious additions to and omissions from his four-hour keynote speech. He praised, of all people, Pope Paul VI, say ing that he entirely agreed with the Pope's view that too much of the West's economy was based on profit motives rather than social obligation. And Lon go, in the course of 20,000 words, never once "invoked the name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...
...York and Texas, are proprietary hospitals, frankly operated for profit. Excluded from these figures are all psychiatric and federally supported institutions...
...Profit on the Seas. Even then, the Skouras armada will not exactly threaten that of the more golden Greeks, Aristotle Onassis (more than 100 ships) or Stavros Niarchos (65). Still, it will do what few of its American rivals have done in recent years: turn a sizable profit. Last year Skouras' Prudential Lines earned an estimated $1.5 million on revenues of $14 million; Grace earned a little more than $3,000,-000 on revenues of $100 million...