Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prime time, profit entertainment programming is dedicated to pleasing the majority of viewers and by and large not serving that minority of people whose tastes are more highly developed ... We find that there is too little experimentation [on network television]. We find too much concern for playing it safe. We find a need for more diversity...
...Swiss, have been suspended and could face criminal charges. Lloyds officials uncovered the losses only after a chance phone call from another banker, curious about the heavy volume of currency trading being done by the small Lugano branch. It appears that the branch officials were seeking to turn a profit-whether for themselves or the bank is not clear-by speculating in Deutsche Mark and dollars without reporting their trades on the books. Apparently, after losing on some initial misguided trades, they wagered more and more of the bank's money trying to recoup, and the losses snowballed...
...practice to fire off 20 artillery rounds for every one round fired by the Communists, thus generating a salable mountain of brass shell casings. With the reduction of American military aid, the Saigon command usually limits each big gun to four or five rounds a day. Still, there is profit to be made, and some artillery officers are most likely to offer fire support to battalion commanders who pay. The going rate is $1 or $2 per round...
NONFICTION 1-All the President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward (1) 2-The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn (2) 3-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (5) 5-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (4) 6-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (8) 7-The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Marchetti & Marks (6) 8-The Wall Street Gang, Ney (7) 9-Chief!, Seedman & Hellman 10-An American Life, Magruder
...Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne...