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...political reporters. The national pencils and network producers laughed at him for what they viewed as a cynical gambit. And few believed him moments later, when Huckabee said, about his distain for gutter politics, "If you gain the whole world, but you lose your own soul, what does it profit...
...don’t stand to profit by doing this. Unlike commercial enterprises who are collecting your data, we are monitored by a third party whose sole purpose is to protect our research subjects,” sociology associate professor Jason Kaufman ’93 said. Kaufman is joined by UCLA sociology professor Andreas Wimmer and Harvard medical sociology professor Nicholas A. Christakis in heading the project...
...divestment is similar to traditional boycotting of products, classic economic theory predicts that it will have absolutely no effect. Unlike goods and services, whose prices can be affected by changes in demand, the price of a financial asset is determined by its expected returns. If a firm forgoes a profitable investment, then another firm will take advantage of that investment instead. In today’s world of highly mobile global capital, opportunities for profit rarely go unnoticed—someone will step in as soon as we leave...
...these quotas have also upset the irascible fishing community, which claims talk of dwindling stocks is exaggerated. In France, trawlermen have gone on strike to protest rising fuel costs, which have cut further into their profit margins. And at the annual fish quota sessions in Brussels, E.U. governments have shown themselves more responsive to the grumbles of their fishermen than the broader concerns about the state of marine resources...
...just rumors, stating that the group was dangerous." (Since 1995, the Church of Scientology has not enjoyed the legal protections accorded to religions in Germany, after a judge ruled that it was not a religion but a group "masquerading as a religion in order to make a profit...