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...This is different from the rigid rent control we had before,” said resident Nancy Hall. She added that some property owners were seeking “profit at the expense of people’s homes and communities...
Everyday, millions of leftists face this civil war. We are forced to choose between watching the Red Sox and attending rallies, between indulging in life’s often-pricey pleasures and offering our earnings to those in desperate need, between non-profit career paths and corporate positions promising wealth and power. And in my case—and I’m sure I’m not alone here—I lose this civil war more than...
...problem so far with the pay-per-song model from a business perspective is profits--or the lack thereof. With as much as 70% of each sale going to the record label and the rest eaten up by surprisingly high costs for things like infrastructure and credit-card fees, sales volume must but doesn't yet compensate. "It's not a way to make a lot of money," acknowledges Jobs. No, it's a way to help sell iPods. Apple says sales of the music-storing, high-profit-margin palm-size gadgets almost quadrupled between the quarters before and after...
NetImpact, a California-based health-care company, is applying technology to improve health-care delivery and disease control in Mali, one of the poorest nations in Africa. Earlier this year OnQ Africa B.V., a for-profit company in the Netherlands that invests private and public money in subSaharan health, telecom and education, awarded NetImpact a $125 million contract to install MDS 200, a portable disease-detection device, and NetCare 7.0, a software package that stores and analyzes medical data. MDS 200, which can run on battery or solar power in areas without electricity, instantly screens for viruses like...
...pointed specifically to the current military action against Iraq and said that profit-driven decisions had led to a “mess” in the post-war conflict...