Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military wants billions more. The mayors call a 60 billion program a 'first step,' farmers want to plant all they can and be guaranteed a profit. This insatiability could devour...
...Stockwell's-In Search was published without CIA permission. It thus becomes the latest entry in what may become a full-blown literary genre: spy-and-tell books by disaffected former intelligence operatives who profess to be turning to their typewriters much more for principle than for profit...
...ending for your article," he says, suddenly, and waves his hands while composing his sentences. "I know the future of the film program at Harvard will depend on money," he begins. "Film Studies is an expensive medium which when approached in a scholarly way does not bring back profit. But there are dreams, dash-dash, even in academia, dot dot dot, that money cannot buy." His last sentence, he explains, is a pun of a '40s avant-garde film called Dreams That Money Can Buy, which he screened for Hum 193 this year...
...carried 117,000 passengers, averaged a 78% load factor and grossed some $14 million"-$1.5 million of it in profit...
Later expanding on his philosophy, Eklund points to all the millions that his company has invested in the central cities in Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Detroit and Atlanta. Yes, it has made a profit, but not always top profit. It has started the country's largest "minority small-business investment company, and Eklund knows that that will...