Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Student spokesmen and UMass Amherst Professor Samuel S. Bowles called upon Governor Dukakis and the legislature to change government priorities from profit making endeavors to human service projects...
Both reports also fail to realize that rent control affects different areas differently. Harvard Square is much better able to absorb rent control because of the cushion provided by high rents. In Central Square, however, the landlord's profit margin is much thinner, and as a less affluent area, its housing deteriorates much more quickly with any cutbacks on maintenance. Ironically, rent control is hurting most the very groups it was designed to aid-the lower-income group tenant...
...last year or so the PBC, a non-profit public foundation, based in Washington, D.C., has begun to take on a life and a momentum of its own even though the foundation funding has fallen off. Most of this financial support comes from the book contracts with Bantam, Simon and Schuster and McGraw-Hill. Some more comes from liberal heavies who are sympathetic to the idea of either economic democracy or an alternative bicentennial celebration. Most recently, direct fund-raising efforts have started to bring in more cash. What also helps, of course, is that most of the labor...
...scandal. Richard might well consider putting the screws on the outraged Dowager Lady Southwold to increase his allowance in exchange for suppressing his earlier diaries. Richard's middle-class daughter-in-law Hazel would surely stick up for the servants' right to publish, and James would profit from the occasion by borrowing ten ners from a suddenly flush Hudson. As for Mrs. Bridges, it is obvious that the good woman's recipe book would be come an alltime seller, she would retire to the Cotswolds - and Upstairs, Down stairs would be in the soup...
Turning lost into profit, Bright, now 23, has made a career of designing mazes. Greg Bright's Maze Book, a collection of his designs, is a current In book in London, and will be published next week by Pantheon Books in the U.S. For those who can afford the real thing-say, an acre complex of tortuous passages between tall, dense hedges-Bright will produce an original design costing around $10,000 (materials and labor not included). His latest project, commissioned by the wealthy Lord...