Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filter has yet to make any money for Columbia. But the university's initial endorsement pushed cigarette stock prices so high that the University of Texas was able to sell 59,000 shares of R. J. Reynolds and 24,000 shares of American Tobacco at a handsome profit...
...however, what is wrong with the film is the Beatles. They are not in it. Except for the songs and a final sequence in which they appear live in some drab sing-along footage, they had nothing to do with Yellow Submarine. All but the most confirmed Beatlemaniacs can profit by their example...
...report's readability is also cut down by its inherent inaccuracy. Last Fall, Ford warned that the Faculty would run a $1.7 million deficit in 1967-68. By the time the expenses had been toted up, however, the loss had changed to a profit of more than $1 million. That dramatic a shift is unusual, but every year's budget ends up looking better in June than it had when predicted in October, because Ford is intentionally liberal in estimating costs and conservative in predicting income...
...Yogurt is a nice symbol for me," said Rossman, who claims that selling yogurt and fence painting grew out of his work in Soc Rel 136--a new course on the student's role in the University. "Why should a non-profit institution like Harvard make 96 percent on Yogurt when a grocer makes only 22 per cent...
...Graham Hurlbut Jr., director of University food services, said yesterday that the Dudley House cafeteria--like the House dining halls--operates on a non-profit basis. He estimated that the charge for lunch in a House dining hall is about 94 cents per day ($1.35 by the meal) compared to the 85 cents allotted to students for noon meals in Dudley...