Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steve Biko, Woods concludes, was killed by all who permit the system of apartheid to continue, by all who continue to profit from that system, Biko closes with a call to arms...
Long-run costs would arise because Harvard would be unable to invest in the large portion of United States firms that operate in or trade with South Africa, making it harder for the managers of the portfolio to beat the falling stock market to make a profit...
...least, they're on their way. Back in the early '60s, when Robert MacNamara was trying to run the Defense Department the same way he had run the Ford Motor Company--at a profit--"computer simulations" of wartime situations were all the rage. The generals and admirals and Cabinet members would huddle together with groups of high-power academics--McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the Faculty here, always comes to mind as the prime example--and then they would all play high-voltage computer games to test out any theories they had managed to devise. But then one day, some...
Grosset & Dunlap has scheduled a first press run of 200,000 copies and claims that if all sell out, the company will make a profit of about $1 million. The book is priced at $19.95, and there are also special editions. One, at $50, includes Nixon's signature and a slipcase cover. For a select group of 2,500 Nixon loyalists, who have been solicited by mail, there is a $250 leather-bound autographed edition...
...month option on IBM for $2 a share, or $200 for 100 shares. This would have given him the right to buy those shares at any time over the next three months for $260 a share. So if the price rose much above $260, he would turn a handsome profit. As it happened, IBM closed last week at $266, and option holders did well...