Word: profiteer
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...means by which an individual projects inner feeling and character. As such, fashion is a sensibility with which it is important to stay in tune. However, it seems that increasingly fewer individuals outside of the elite circles dictate or are even truly conscious of their tastes. In the practical, profit-driven implementation of retail and commercialization, fashion is becoming an increasingly supply-side phenomenon that creates its own inevitable demand, driven by the forces of marketing and brand management...
...audiences—and millions of dollars—to a single company. The bribery involved in this subjective designation led to the firing of an Education Department official and three senior financial aid officers at different universities last April. The four had owned—and made enormous profits from—shares of Education Lending Group, a preferred student lender for their respective employers. The new Education Department regulations will ameliorate this anticompetitive state of affairs, but only to an extent. Among other things, regulations will prevent these educational oligopolies by imposing a minimum of three...
...your seat till the end of the credits? That's because moviemaking is an extreme team art form, requiring a throng of people with specialized skills to gather for a few months, often in a strange land, and spend long hours in the frequently divergent pursuits of creativity and profit. The director is their aesthetic leader, but the producer is their boss. And the bosses everyone wants to work for in Hollywood are a married team: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall...
...problem, as epitomized by the tech boom, is that the Street never knows when to turn off the money spigot. A good idea once is a good idea a million times, to the point of excess. In the hunt for ever more profit, everyone gets carried away, ethics and laws are at times breached, and then, ultimately, the collapse comes...
...makes it clear that the event is purely altruistic on the part of the station, which had to resort to selling more advertising time and using cost-cutting methods to pay $3,000—half of the sponsorship costs. Because there will be no door charge, and any profit the Pub turns during the event will go towards paying the staff, it will be very difficult for WHRB to recoup its losses.“Unless people are willing to buy our 150 t-shirts, we will probably lose money,” she says. “This...