Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...isle urge? It goes deeper than the fortress mentality of those who fear assault or long for solitude. While most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions. Off Nova Scotia there are so many islands-some of them mere specks on the chart-that they are almost beyond count...
...Saudis are torn between supporting the cartel and sustaining their hard-pressed international customers. Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani has publicly advocated a cut of $2 per bbl. or so on the grounds that the oil producers are part of the Western economic system and they could not profit by bankrupting their customers. After conferences with King Faisal, Treasury Secretary William Simon returned from Jidda two months ago with encouraging news: the Saudis in August would hold an auction that would let the market set lower prices. The auction was canceled, which led some U.S. cynics to accuse...
...Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne...
Each actor currently makes around $105 per week--about $87 take-home pay--for what the group calls "unlimited working hours." Albert says he can afford only a $20-per-week pay increase, because, he says, Proposition Workshops, Inc., is a non-profit corporation that is operating on a deficit-spending budget...
Each actor currently makes around $105 per week--about $87 take-home pay--for what the group calls "unlimited working hours." Albert says he can afford only a $20-per-week pay increase, because, he says, Proposition Workshops, Inc., is a non-profit corporation that is operating on a deficit-spending budget...