Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unit cost of $50 each. He gets an import license for $1,000 worth of radios from the Laotian government. He pays for it with $1,000 in Laotian kip, which he has already bought on the free market in Bangkok or Hong Kong for about $400. The profit, minus whatever he may have to pay in squeeze for the import license (usually about 20%), goes into his pocket...
...personal. It is easier to tell a man to take the traditional courses--unexciting, shallow, and often repetitions survey courses--than to conclude that this particular man could well be allowed to do much of this work on his own--reading and listening and talking where he can profit most. The frequent result is depressing indeed, for we see many a man less mature, less selfpoised, and less confident after two years in a graduate school than he was as an inspirited college senior...
...group will be non-profit, but will attempt to break even financially. "We are able to produce just good theatre," Mee said, "without sets and without money. The emphasis will be on performance...
...such a questionable risk that few banks are eager to lend scarce funds. Those who do get interim financing may have to pay higher interest rates than other industries. And since the extra cost cannot be recovered under most defense contracts, it will also mean a sharp cut in profit margins...
French Dressing. In London, an "Honest French Diplomat" advertising to rent his apartment in the Sunday Times, specified that "being a Socialist he refuses to profit on the housing shortage...