Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market, which was the Mayor's idea in the first place, is one of those Bicentennial Community events, not-for-profit but for-the-people. Physically, it's simply a strip of unused roadway cut off from traffic for the day. Peddlers pay $2 a day for a curbside space, pull in their Pinto wagons and draw out all manner of treasure and trash to sell to the public...
...result of long term efforts of various organizations, including SftP, to build a movement forcing science to serve the people rather than what he perceives to be the present dominating interests of a scientific elite--motivated by the prospect of Nobel prizes--and a corporate-governmental complex geared toward profit, imperialism, and maintenance of the status...
SftP says the capitalist system forces to focus on coercing the individual to fit the system, and that such a society places profit before people. Among the examples cited by SftP are: attempts to cure cancer through recombinant DNA research rather than by eliminating carcinogens from the environment; screening factory workers for genetic susceptibility to tungsten-caused cancer rather than eliminating the hazard; pinning the blame for deviant behavior and widespread social ills on the genes of individuals rather than on the structure of society...
...Beijer, Beijerinvest's owner, who hired him part time. Wall joined the company in 1958, and in 1964 was given chief responsibility for the firm's operations. Immediately he set out to expand the company, selling off deadwood and using the money to buy firms with fatter profit potential. In the process, he spread the company's branches throughout Europe, the U.S. and Japan...
...background of the argument is that accountants have long been able to follow widely varying methods of calculating a company's profit or loss. As a hypothetical case, depending on which of two methods of figuring the value of goods held in inventory was followed, an oil company in 1974 might have claimed a profit of $6 or a loss of $1 on each barrel of petroleum sold from stockpiles. Companies and their auditors have been known to switch from one method to another, which would enable a company to report the greatest immediate profit. In an effort...