Word: profiteered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paul Mellon wanted those very Rothkos so ardently, Lloyd testified, that Marlborough bought them back from Galleria Bernini for a whopping $420,000 and then resold them to her for that amount. "Since the price was so high," Lloyd said with benign altruism, "I didn't want to profit from it." Yet if the sale to Mrs. Mellon had been direct, the estate would have received...
...priced new camera. The catch is that almost all sales are being made at discounts, some as deep as $65 below the list price of $180. Since stores buy the camera for $120 (less an $8 rebate for each one they sell), the SX-70 generates a slim retail profit at best. Many stores are selling it to draw customers and build a market for film sales, on which both the stores and Polaroid expect to make their real profits...
Polaroid is not yet making much profit from the new camera. Indeed, between 1969 and 1973, the company's sales rose from $522 million to $701 million, but profits dropped from $71 million to $52 million, largely because of the heavy costs of SX-70 development...
NONFICTION 1-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (3) 2-Times to Remember, Kennedy (1) 3-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 4-All the President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward (4) 5-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (5) 6-Management, Drucker (7) 7-Go East, Young Man, Douglas (9) 8-Working, Terkel (6) 9-Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, Brodie (8) 10-The Wall Street Gang...
Northumberland: No more, but that you read/ These accusations and these grievous crimes/ Committed by your person .../ Against the state of profit of this land...