Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragedy. But let us profit from this as a nation. It wasn't just Watergate. It is violating the traffic laws, it is cheating on exams. There is too much of this beating the system...
...lead. For the moment, the two biggest carmakers are promoting sales through standard cash incentives. These are bonuses awarded to dealers for selling a certain number of cars per week or month; they enable dealers to quote bargain prices well under list to customers yet still make a respectable profit. But if Chrysler's variation helps the company cut down its 127-day stock of unsold cars-by far the largest in the industry-other carmakers might be tempted to cut prices or offer rebates...
Even so, the sale was at least a partial success for the Treasury. The gold, worth only $32 million at the $42.22 per oz. "official" price (used between governments), went for $124,841,256 in the auction-a tidy 300% profit. More important, as Washington had intended, the sale helped to dampen further the hopes of speculators that great numbers of Americans would rush to trade dollars for the yellow metal after it became legal for them to own bullion on Dec. 31. Bullion bulls in Europe and the Middle East were only temporarily distressed by the American disinterest, however...
...these proposals are wrong. Because the tenants do not own the land they live on, and can never hope to profit from it, the full tax-burden should not fall on them alone. Tenants should not be required to pay all additional fuel costs because they already share that same burden at their jobs, where workers are being laid off and salaries are being frozen because of diminishing energy resources. The cost of living raise--the most equitable sounding measure of the three--should not be granted because no similar raise has been guaranteed the tenants. As long as there...
...from private investors and the box office. And much of the dirty work that Prince complains about could thus be eliminated. The contradiction between artist and businessman would be resolved simply by acknowledging that it is impossible to create a show in the same way you would finance a profit-making venture Although this seems the most obvious point that emerges from this somewhat confusingly written book, it is something that Prince never seems to grasp. He just accepts the contradiction. Maybe he figures that's just show business...