Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...west coast universities are financing the whole project, and are fairly confident it will show a profit. They expect to fill the 85,000-seat Stanford stadium for each game. This is not so ambitious as it sounds, for every year they manage to draw around 70,000 Rugby spectators to the U.C.L.A.-Stanford game...
...business for a profit; you should run a city to benefit the people," the city manager contends. One of his more spectacular savings involved purchase of an $18,000 truck for $1,000 through alert spotting of a war surplus deal. Actually the vehicle cost only a paltry $500 but it required an additional $500 to ship the thing from San Juan, Porto Rico...
...reorganized the German steel industry: once for Hitler's war production boss, Albert Speer, later for the Allies. With similar impartiality, he shipped $12 million worth of goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade, he switched westward, made $700,000 profit this year out of trading German steel for U.S. coal. Schlieker now claims to be a reformed character. To prove it, he recently gave Düsseldorf $475,000 for workers' housing. A British dossier concludes: "Schlieker is a ruthless opportunist, vain, ambitious and egotistical . . . With his ability, ruthlessness...
This quotation represents what is wrong with Harvard football, but not quite in the way in which the writer intended. Football policy cannot be determined by considerations of profit and loss. To be sure, football does help to pay for Harvard's "athletics for all" program, which is one of the best in the country. But that program justifies itself, and must justify the great sums of money spent on it whether that money comes from football ticket sales or students' tuition charges...
...Hero (Columbia] looks at U.S. intercollegiate football with the same critical eye that Hollywood sport films usually turn on prizefighting. As angry as it is timely, the movie takes the line that gridiron stars like Hero John Derek are the pawns of a game cynically run for the profit of the universities and the political capital of behind-the-scenes finaglers...