Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mere 1% in 1974, and last year showed almost no growth at all. Pan Am, Eastern, American and Trans World Airlines plunged deep into the red. Not surprisingly, airlines ordered few new jets. Even United, the biggest U.S. airline and one that is still flying at a profit, could not justify more planes. Last fall it dropped plans to buy a fleet of 20 "stretched" versions of Boeing...
...that so many Harvard graduates work for private corporations does not necessarily mean that they ignore social causes. Most probably give sizeable donations every year to a wide range of charities, many speak out in moral outrage against "social injustices," and many serve as trustees and members of non-profit service organizations such as hospitals, and charitable groups. Besides, the argument goes, when one is a successful executive in a profitable company, he is doing a great deal to enhance all of society by helping to stimulate more jobs and to provide more income and commodities for everyone...
...this aside, it is a shameful fact of 150,000 graduates of the University who have been surveyed, only 860 describe their field as Social Service and another 2000 say they work for some non-profit institution (other than educational ones). Even the number of graduates involved in government service is incredibly low--about...
...want to overthrow those governments and our corporate influence, and showed how, if they succeed, the corporations will squeeze workers tighter here at home. "Either they put you in uniform and send you off to prop up dictatorships, or they take it out on your hide back here. Profit's the goal, not your wellbeing; the two don't go together as well as we've been told...
...hard. If blacks refuse to bear the brunt of the current depression, they become scapegoats for white workers unwilling to share it. That keeps the heat off employers and the upper class. Take away racism, "heroic" wars and pacification programs like welfare or unemployment compensation, and the corporate profit system has to admit it can't make room for everyone; then it must resort to outright repression, using techniques and technology developed since the sixties to cope with future uprisings...