Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corresponding obligation between the younger, poorer and weaker and the old, rich and more powerful that runs from top to bottom in Japanese life. As Gibney compares and contrasts the two countries, he reflects on how our own industrial superpower-individualistic, given to philosophical absolutes and brusque manners-might profit from the example of a reluctant world power that is group-oriented, philosophically relativist and almost piously polite...
...china shop in this production, by the way, is a stark and handsome accumulation of steel scaffolding that is only employed in the first act's elevated bedroom scene. The rest of the night it just sits there, and the producers could have turned quite a profit if they had only sold air-rights to the structure for the last two acts...
...budgeted the flight to go with five empty seats on each of three planes. Blake said and made an unexpected profit when the planes were filled...
...take advantage of a person who's been in public office and still use him somehow," he said. "I think the government would profit from our participation...
...mutual aid, observing that it is in the self-interest of the wealthy nations as well as in the interest of those nations that are stricken with famine. Led by Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, developmentalists argue that the entrance of the Third World into the twentieth century can profit America's balance of payments. These men advocate the exportation of Western agricultural methods to the Third World. For these men, the markets of the Third World are as vital to the West as is food aid to the poor nations...