Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite distressing that society, and book publishers in particular, should allow Watergate criminals to profit from their crimes [July 29]. Jeb Magruder has already profited by writing his book. John Dean says that a publisher offered him $250,000 to write a book about Watergate. If these men have anything to say, let them say it in a court of law. They should otherwise not be allowed to profit from their crimes. Is this not a grave injustice...
...prices (see box next page) that gave fresh evidence of how difficult inflation will be to defeat. But brokers widely feel that the long-oversold stock market is about to enjoy at least a short-term psychological rise that might push the Dow to 830 or 850 before heavy profit taking pulls it back...
...automation in New York will begin slowly. The Times admits that its composing room is ten years behind some other U.S. papers. But, adds Operations Officer John Werner, "it won't take ten years to recover." After some lean years, both papers look forward to the added profits that automation may bring. The Times has specific reasons to hope. In the first six months of this year, its string of eleven automated papers in Florida and North Carolina showed pretax profit margins averaging 26.6%, while the nonautomated Times itself returned only...
...money manager. Father Sauvé has refused to talk about the fund, but it seems to have been a commonplace investment operation: church groups would raise money by borrowing or selling bonds, expecting that the return on the invested proceeds would be high enough to leave a profit over and above the costs of interest and amortization. Bishop Joseph Green of Reno saw the plan as a way for his poor diocese to meet rising expenses. He raised $3.5 million through the sale of bonds, some $800,000 of which went to diocesan expenses, $200,000 to pay for underwriting...
Freelandia Air Travel Club took off last fall in the midst of a press blitz that puffed its low fares ($69, Newark-Los Angeles), its organic chic (natural food, a water bed in its yellow DC-8) and its ringing slogan, "Not-For-Profit." Not-For-Real would have been more accurate...