Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supported by nearly 1,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong advisers and they possess an impressive arsenal. While Hanoi provides most of this equipment, some diplomats in Phnom-Penh suspect that the Insurgents have still another source of supply -government officials and military officers who make a quick profit by selling the guerrillas American ammunition...
Moss realizes that the lure of low rates and really enjoyable air travel might eventually pose a threat to the profit-making entrenched airlines. So the club sticks carefully to the rules, thus preventing a possible dispute by irritated airlines, and employs lawyers in Washington, New York and Los Angeles to insure that Freelandia doesn't lose it's nonprofit status...
...Honeywell Corporation recruiter, the largest demonstration here since the spring of 1972, is a heartening indication that students haven't lost their capacity for outrage. Honeywell helps enable the United States and General Thieu to visit death, repression and devastation on Indochina--as the company's nature as a profit-seeking manufacturer of weaponry compels...
...yawning chasm. As it was, the trade union activists--so hated by Heath--managed to keep some industries open by the strength of their protests. In spite of this success, the unions have had a terribly difficult time with a government that sees labor as fulfilling a profit function rather than a social function...
...company has to sell, hold out for a low price. ITT agreed to sell Levitt, Avis, Inc. and other businesses as part of the violently controversial 1971 consent decree that permitted it to keep Hartford Fire Insurance. Another reason, though, is that the Levitt business, which had earned a profit of almost $4 million in the year before ITT bought it, lost $14 million under ITT's management last year. Home building is a business that demands quick, intuitive judgments, and it defeated ITT's management style, which is based on incessant reports to Chairman Harold Geneen that...