Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They say we will help [only] those we choose, our friends, and this and that. What are they going to do with the excess of their oil profit? Buy buildings? It is their right. They are sovereign countries. My job, my responsibility was to propose what...
...agency's motive is to make ticket prices reflect operating costs more closely. At present, the carriers subsidize short hops by taking a smaller profit on them than they do on long flights. That pattern emerged in the late 1950s when the industry shifted from propeller-driven planes to jets, which operate much more efficiently over long distances. Even before the advent of jets, first-class passengers enjoyed extra leg room and fancier treatment literally at the expense of coach passengers, whose fares in effect subsidized the money-losing luxury service...
...will detect any interest on the part of People's editors in filling the spiritual void apparently nagging at the American public's herostarved psyche. People does not make heroes. People doesn't even make celebrities, at least not yet. People is an attempt to profit from the celebrity status or strangeness of others...
...partial answer lies in many people's willingness to settle for a little bit of titillation. Their lives are so barren that merely reading about the slightly less barren lives of the momentarily famous offers a thrill. Time Inc., in keeping with its corporate tradition, has decided to profit from this sad situation. Peoplecertainly does little to improve the content of its audience's existence. Rather, it is an effort to exploit the sorry state of victims with 35 cents burning a hole in their pocket...
Kennedy takes over one of the few national airlines that expect to fly at a profit this year. That is due partly to the line's acquisition of a big London hotel and two of Ireland's biggest tour-promotion agencies, which has increased its ability to book charter groups into package tours. Another reason is Aer Lingus' long policy of offering high standards but low-cost, no-frills service; over the years it has kept as much as 13% more of its seats occupied than any other line flying the North Atlantic. Kennedy pledges to continue...