Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Labor unions, as such, have outlived their usefulness. It's time for management to take advantage of the situation and give labor a vested interest in the capitalistic enterprise system through equity profit sharing. Eventually, labor unions will be forced to change their point of view and seek higher profits for the benefit of their membership. At that point, outside stockholders may even want to pay for the privilege of joining such associations...
WASHINGTON--Privately - owned profit-making nursing homes now appear to charge less than homes run by the government, churches or other non-profit groups, a government health survey indicates...
...with twelve tons of marijuana was discovered at an airfield in Georgia last spring. Countless other "pot planes" take off from Mexico for the deserts of the Southwest, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has found more than 40 small aircraft abandoned this year. The trafficking is a high-profit operation: a single ten-ton marijuana flight can mean $2 million for the smuggler...
...injustice of the courts seems to mirror the injustice of the economic system. All the rules of society seem to have been changed. You work hard, but inflation destroys your gains; so much for the work ethic. You obey the law, but somehow you get hurt and criminals profit, unpunished...
...Representative Robert ("He-Coon") Sikes, who last year was stripped of a congressional subcommittee chairmanship because of financial misconduct. Taunton publicly charged that former State Senator George Tapper engaged in an "elaborate, corrupt political scheme" with State Representative William J. ("Billy Joe") Rish, Sikes and others to profit from intricate land deals at the public's expense. A state investigation turned up no evidence of wrongdoing, however, and a Gulf County grand jury exonerated everyone accused by the judge. Says Taunton: "It was a whitewash...