Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becomes apparent that the organization is no profit-making enterprise. George B. Field, director of the Center, says instead that the work is "a manifestation of that inquisitive, aesthetic, adventurous side of the human spirit." Below Field's office a grey-haired adventurer wanders distractedly through the Center's library, his untucked white shirt sticking out below his suit jacket. He clutches a protractor in one hand as though he has forgotten it is there, and his mind seems to be somewhere among the stars he is studying. The library where he ponders has no formal checkout desk. No librarians...
...situation should be covered in news broadcasts, but without any mention of the terrorists' demands. When there is no glory, no profit, no support for any cause to be gained by the capturing and holding of hostages, this particular symptom will cease to appear...
...Pierre cares too much about the workers and their traditional craft to close the factory, so he fakes orders, carts away shipments to be burned secretly and, in his simplest and most desperate expedient, begins pulling armed robberies to meet the payroll. Talk about bourgeois paternalism! Letting the workers profit from the boss's labor may be bad economics, but in the hands of Swiss Director Claude Goretta it is good cinema. Within its modest, admittedly improbable dimensions, Crook could scarcely be more deftly done...
...Sale signs have sprouted like peanut plants in Plains. In some cases the motive is profit, in others the goal is flight. Land that was selling for $600 or $700 a year ago is now carrying price tags of $5,000 an acre and up (to a high of $25,000 an acre). William O. Cochran, a farmer who moved with his family to Plains three years ago, attempted to auction off publicly his 1,056 acres after an expensive publicity buildup. Cochran received a high bid of $1.2 million, but mysteriously refused...
...figure far lower, at 50 to 90 years. The supply is adequate to carry the U.S. well past the transition from the end of the oil and gas era to new, possibly not yet discovered sources of energy in the 2000s. The program will count on the profit consciousness of the coal companies, which now mine about 655 million tons per year, as a spur to increasing production to 1 billion or more tons annually...