Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most impressive actor's portfolios in Hollywood. His are the kind of credentials the town likes best. The recent movies Nicholson stars in are generally well received, and he himself invariably is. His presence in a starring role seems to guarantee both prestige and a profit. That makes Nicholson the man most in demand, the dearest form of collateral when it comes to banking a picture...
...Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne...
Hardly a man to make Panglossian predictions, Greenspan foresees an 8% inflation rate in the fourth quarter and "turgid" industrial growth and slimmer profit margins in 1975. In order to begin moving toward stabilizing the economy by 1976, he says, decisions for doing so must be made now. To help make those decisions, Greenspan is willing to take his quarter-of-a-million-dollar pay cut. "We are at a major crossroad," he says. "The actions taken in the next year or two will have a significant impact on where...
Since the middle sixties Harvard has vastly increased the amount of in-lieu-of tax payments it makes to Cambridge, Allston and Boston. Although the University still resists local pressure to pay by formula--a precedent that could deal a deadly blow to many non-profit institutions not quite as well-off as Harvard--the amounts Harvard is now paying are much more satisfactory to its three cities. And in Cambridge (where the tension with Harvard has been most acute) the University has assured city fathers that it will not make any non-essential land purchases outside specific boundaries...
...intent on delivering cold truths. Mainly, that whatever speculators were hearing about the future of silver in 1969, it was largely piped misinformation from a handful of supersophisticated con men. In his novel, the lords of both the underworld and over-world put aside hurt pride to concentrate on profit by colluding to rig the market. All those dentists, airline pilots and what Erdman gleefully calls "greedy widows" who invested in silver futures never stood a chance. The odds of beating the professionals were about the same as a man in a wheelchair getting a football through the Miami Dolphins...