Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the price of a five-pound bag rose 20 cents during one week, that's when I said I don't want to buy sugar any more," Koe said. "When there are people who make as much as 120 per cent profit on sugar I don't think I should...
People who are making money on the stock market have to pay tax on their profits if they sell their stock. If, on the other hand, investors donate their profitable stocks to non-profit institutions like Harvard, their profits are not taxed and they can claim deductions on their own income...
...brakes. The industry's supply of unsold cars last week stood at 69 days, a record tempered only technically by the fact that the figure is based on current small daily volume and could shrink rapidly if the pace picks up. Ford, with a 50% third-quarter profit decline and an early November sales dropoff of 36%, is also reducing its work force; layoffs could reach 54,000, including at least 3,000 white-collar staffers in Dearborn. GM's layoffs now total 53,000, and last week the company said that it would close nine plants...
...join out of sympathy for the working class, but their numbers are small: less than 10% of the editors belong to the National Union of Journalists, the labor organization that represents most of the country's newspaper workers. In recent weeks, however, an N.U.J. drive against the high-profit, low-wage provincial papers outside London has threatened to change that situation. What began as a pay dispute on the "provincials" has ballooned into a national row over newspaper economics, editors' rights and the specter of censorship by labor...
...supplementary fuel that could lessen U.S. dependence on high-priced foreign oil by as much as 150 million bbl., or about 7% per year. Everybody thus benefits from the efficient use of solid wastes, especially the municipalities that can turn the headache of garbage disposal into the pleasure of profit...