Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the blame for our domestic problems be placed where it belongs -not on any one man but on the people of this country. Blame the politicians who are willing to sit and do nothing constructive, just point a finger and say shame. Blame the industrial men who worship profit only -responsibility to the consumer and a quality product be hanged-and contrive shortages to further their own ends. Blame the farmers who cry poverty, and the union leaders who use the public to feed their super egos but haven't the true sense of leadership that would allow...
Others agree that conservationist demands often seem unreasonable in an Alaskan context. "As long as they stuck to protecting the environment, the Sierra Club was a very worthwhile organization," says Chuck Evans, vice president of the First National Bank of Anchorage. "But when they start attacking progress and profit, they're out of their realm." One bumper sticker puts it more crudely: "Let the bastards freeze in the dark...
...Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp., is queen of the private-plane industry, her nephew Frank Hedrick is crown prince; since 1968 he has been Beech president. The division of labor has worked well, piloting Beech from a $7.7 million loss in fiscal 1970 to a $7,000,000 profit the next year. Now the family management team has begun merger negotiations with troubled Grumman Aircraft, which lost $70 million in 1972 mostly because of cost overruns on the Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter plane. Grumman officials contend that those troubles are now well behind them and that...
...novelistic imagination won't quit and he tries to make connections between a brief friendship with Robert Kennedy and singing Happy Birthday to President John Kennedy four months before his death. Mailer may have carefully hedged and qualified here, but the innuendo is there. Mailer sees right wing profit in allying her with the two men and uses that as a motive for a CIA or FBI plot to kill her, rather than the suicide by Nembutal cited by the coroner...
...track festival site. The echo of unanimous voices raised at the Schuyler County legislature in favor of a four-month moratorium on further large concerts in the area. And, of course, the rustle of money being counted; after expenses of $1.3 million, the Summer Jam stands to net a profit...