Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the room, we voted to try a middle course whereby we would hold regular workers' meetings and at the same time leave Steve in ultimate control, all the while retaining the option of taking up again at some later point the issue of a workers' cooperative and profit-sharing...
...land or offshore. The corporation would produce some fuel for Government stockpiles and sell the rest to independent oil firms-at prices that would aim to stimulate competition in the industry. The NESC would not market its oil and natural gas at below cost, but it would keep its profit margins low, in line with an overall mandate to reduce domestic fuel prices for consumers...
Though Gerald R. Ford may have been too dense to realize the importance, potentially at least, of getting Ruby to testify, he was astute enough to publish classified Warren Commission information for personal profit in his book Oswald: Portrait of an Assassin, despite the fact that he was sworn to secrecy. Ford did not, it should be noted, have any trouble getting his book published due to his position on the assassination, while simultaneously all the networks prohibited coverage of dissenting opinions and edited their programs on the subject to conform with the findings of the commission...
...spokesmen say, "about 5 per cent." But that kind of public stance seems naive or deceptive coming from a multinational corporation with $3.5 billion in annual sales. A company like Monsanto doesn't invest up to $2.3 million unless it has some expectation of making a profit...
...decision. The tragedy of Appalachia--which Vecsey seems to ignore--is that Dan Sizemore made the decision alone. "Nobody brainwashed him; nobody forced him into it. Certainly peer pressure had nothing to do with it." So up in his hollow Dan Sizemore read books, decided he was against the profit system, and prepared to keep his belt on when his kids began to sprout their locks. Fifteen years later the neighbors still hate the guy, and especially when they see out-of-state license plates (the people who bring him Philip Roth books?) flash...