Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be more concerned with winning friends than winning the battle against inflation. He was no sooner in office than he counter manded a Castello Branco order and rehired-at least temporarily-1,500 surplus social security workers who had just been fired. He also suspended a special 15% profit tax that Castello Branco had put through, held up a fare hike on some government rail lines and hinted that he might even double the country's minimum wage to $148 a month. But the military hard-liners are there to see that he does not slide...
...main problem to date has been that rehabilitation is costly, time-consuming and inconvenient. It requires a major investment in property that has, at best, a low-profit potential. Beyond that, eviction of the present paying tenants means that the building remains fallow during the months of renovation work. Last week New York City and federal housing authorities teamed up with the civic-minded Carolyndale Foundation to stage an impressive demonstration of what can be done to rehabilitate a slum structure in just 48 hours...
...Locker Room. Hoping to profit from Licensing's touch, National Periodical Publications, Inc. (Mad magazine. Wonder Woman comics) bought the firm last year for $2,400,000 in stock. Royalties from manufacturers, who pay Licensing 5% of the wholesale price of goods sold with its endorsements, last year totaled some $5,000,000. Half of that goes to the owners of the names; the rest is nearly all profit...
...Germany are components of different international systems and they are committed to different goals. The reunification that West Germany desires cannot be achieved by friendly negotiations any more than East Germany can hope to achieve an international identity by the same technique. But both regimes believe that they can profit politically by talking about friendly negotiations. Neither wants the negotiations. Neither expects that there will be negotiations. And neither will be disappointed...
...college work-study program, established by the Higher Education Act of 1965, provides universities with Federal funds that pay 90 per cent of needy students' wages for term-time and summer work in non-profit, secular organizations...