Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vital to daily life because they don't deliver instant results. We pay off truck drivers, longshoremen and railway workers with fat increases because we want our goods delivered now, and because it's good business. But when it comes to education, we think there is no profit to reap...
...folly for the U.S. to rely increasingly on an inflation-fueling, energy-wasting gasoline that federal price controls and environmental regulations are discouraging the oil industry from producing. If the nation wants to continue its growing use of unleaded gas, Washington must permit the companies a reasonable profit from making and selling it. Air pollution regulations for industry must also be relaxed enough to allow oil companies to build the additional refineries that are needed to do the job. If Congress and the Administration feel that doing that is asking too much, auto emission standards themselves will have...
...biggest fan is Gerald C. Meyers, 50, chairman of American Motors Corp., which bought manufacturing rights to the Jeep from Kaiser Industries in 1970. Though the company lost an estimated $65 million on its conventional cars for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, AMC still posted a $36.7 million profit on sales of $2.6 billion. Most of that black ink comes from Jeeps...
...replied to Idi Amin's ranting assault on Is rael by calling Uganda's dictator a "racist murderer." He excoriated the rest of the U.N. for tolerating vicious abuse of the world's dwindling democracies. "There are those in this country," he said, "whose pleasure, or profit, it is to believe that our assailants are motivated by what is wrong about us . . . We are assailed because we are a democracy...
...Rockefeller's venture-partly, no doubt, because the name makes such an inviting target-provoked a furious attack from the Art Dealers Association of America, a group of 105 of the leading U.S. dealers. Though not known for its militancy in the past, and hardly opposed to the profit motive, this eminent body went for the jugular. Rocky's reproductions, it said, "are not works of fine art, have no intrinsic aesthetic worth and have little or no resale value." Having denounced this "shameful venture," the A.D.A.A. also called on museums to stop "making and selling pretentious reproductions...