Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden everything is changing," remarked one well-to-do Vietnamese company manager. "The people are afraid of the V.C., they fear the soldiers at loose like this, and they hate the government, which has only tried to profit out of the people. It's going to happen here, just like Danang...
...number of collectors began to multiply, Bill Sloan, a rancher from Saginaw, Texas, decided that he could profit from the hobby. He began by selling $5 barbed bracelets, then abandoned that scheme when he received barbed remarks from women with knit dresses. But he has sold 14,000 sets of six swizzle sticks ($12.50) fashioned out of 24-karat, gold-plated barbed wire...
World's revenues have been rising in recent years, but high fuel and operating costs have held down profits. Last week the line reported a record 1974 gross of $112.2 million and an operating profit of $5.3 million; it also earned a handsome $15.9 million on the sale of a Los Angeles bank that it had owned for a while as an investment. The operating profit marked a considerable improvement over 1973, when World lost $1.25 million on airline operations, but was still well short of the record $14.5 million earned...
Virtue believes in "the ancient verity of thrift" and wants to use the bank as a community resource. Vice (who comes equipped with a frigid wife and an effete son) cares only for profit. It is he who pushes a dangerously large loan to a multinational corporation at the expense of municipal bonds and local construction projects. Meanwhile, as background, Hailey provides a bank theft, a counterfeit-credit ring, extramarital affairs, race problems and a Robert Vescoesque corporate swindle...
...hairdresser we get a glimpse of one path members of the drop-out generation may have taken as they grew older and realized that there was more to hair than a faddish protest, that in washing it, setting it, curling it, and cutting it there was a substantial profit to be made. Gone are the blue jeans, love beads, marijuana pipes, and Jimi Hendrix; In are velvet pants, platform shoes, sports coupes, and Jim Beam. Yet there remains the glibness of the cultural representation, be it theater or cinema, that attempts to sum up in a concise, marketable statement...