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Many felt, as did the fiery William Jennings Bryan, that to annex foreign territory in the Far East would be a profitless burden and pose the threat of cheap labor to already disconted American workers. But in1897, Germany took over kiaochow and Theodore Roosevelt began to push the strategy finally adopted-- Philippine annexation-- to protect U.S. interests in the area...
...perfect form - a fine dazzle, then a quick curtain and nothing left but spots on the retina. But an entire collection of Cortazar's glittering tricky fiction invites the reader's eye to outguess the magician's hand. The mood that results is a profitless mixture of admiration and something not unlike contempt...
...bill is enacted, it would for two experimental years suspend all penalties for the possession of marijuana and for its profitless sale in quantities of one ounce or less. Sellers of larger quantities or those making a profit from sales would remain liable to prosecution...
...Italy's Fiat, the plant is scheduled to turn out some 500,000 sedans this year. For businessmen throughout the West, Togliatti's completion stands as proof that capitalists and Communists can cooperate in a major industrial venture. But for Fiat, the experience has been a virtually profitless ordeal...
...Twenty-four companies wrote off a startling total of $1.5 billion in various losses last year, and some of the largest represented the cost of unwinding profitless diversification. RCA wrote off $490 million as the expected loss on liquidation of its computer business. American-Standard has shucked its mining-equipment and air-conditioning divisions, and is getting out of recreational-land development, mobile-home parks and foreign housing. Writeoff: $122 million...