Word: profiteering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queen, exactly what we were looking for. A straight. Managed to bluff three players out of the game, but put it all in once we saw the queen down. We drop one more player out and rack in $2.25 on the one dollar investment (a 225 percent profit). It was a good night at the table." Tad has become the unequivocal hero of the night, in a financial sense at least...
Harvard alleges that "Rhys and Douglas" registered 65 Internet names using the words "Harvard" and "Radcliffe," with the intention of later selling them to Harvard for a profit...
...credit will be given to developers who would normally develop middle- and high-income housing for high profit. The tax credit will offer an incentive for developers to build affordable housing...
...Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, says that graduates of the forestry program can go on to earn their Ph.D. or get a job working in conservation for a non-profit group, state or federal agency...
...restricted list, which changes hourly. The list reads like a who's-who of the technology industry. (Insider information could be a significant problem for an investment bank: Even in the course of researching this article, I learned about several upcoming mergers that could have netted a well-timed profit on the market...