Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alleged payoff is Crociani's inept handling of the public's business. Finmeccanica is one of Italy's many ventures in "mixed capitalism." With this system, which started under Mussolini in 1933, the state buys or creates firms to promote broad social goals-and make a profit. Today the government controls or has interests in companies that account for about 50% of Italy's industrial output. Finmeccanica owns pieces of about 50 enterprises that had combined sales of $1.5 billion last year. Crociani took over in 1974; in just one year he tripled the group...
Accordingly, these were not mobs in the modern sense-that is, collections of unrelated roustabouts looking for fun or profit. As University of Massachusetts Historian Pauline Maier has written: "The Boston mob was so domesticated that it refused to riot on Saturday and Sunday nights, which were considered holy by New Englanders." Indeed, often the "mob" served quite legal ends, as when the hue and cry was set up to apprehend a thief, or when measures had to be taken to deal with public health problems. Small wonder, then, that a member of a mob was rarely convicted...
...group seems to feel strongly that their work should be spread around to as many women as it can reach. The collective has taken the status of a non-profit organization, with profits from their book going back into other women's projects all over the country, projects in counselling and research as well as health care...
...called into question. But she says sadly she doesn't see much change in the basic health care provided women; and from her perspective, that exemplifies a need for other changes in society that will have to accompany women's liberation. "What we really object to is the profit motive in medicine, which keeps doctors treating their knowledge as a kind of special secret, rather than sharing it with women," she says. "And that doesn't show many signs of disappearing...
...future of a planned women's club at Harvard is now in question because of the apparent failure of a fundraising dance to make a profit, Susan Sturdy '77, one of the dance's sponsors, said yesterday...