Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic Party fund-raising dinner in Des Moines, some 3,500 people cheered often as the President again assailed the big oil companies, charging that deregulation of natural gas prices would produce "big profit rake-offs and huge cost increases to the American consumers." The price could go so high, Carter told farmers in the audience, with some hyperbole, that "you might just as well burn cash to heat your homes or dry your crops." Sure, his energy plan was "bitter medicine," he conceded, but it was better than the "true catastrophe" that would follow without it. The President spent...
...child survived). Last week the police came up with enough evidence to bring arson indictments on 35 of the fires that destroyed property worth $6 million and killed three people. Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti denounced the torch ring as "a conspiracy to burn down Suffolk County for profit." Added Stephen Delinsky, head of the state criminal bureau: "This is just the tip of the iceberg...
Whether for profit or for revenge, arson has become one of the most deadly, costly, and, for law enforcement officials, maddening crimes in the country. Deliberatley started fires now exceed 100,000 a year, up 400% since 1967. Last year there were 6,776 reported arsons in New York City alone. In Chicago, arson has tripled in less than three years, and in crime-plagued Detroit it is up 12% over last year alone. But the most shocking statistics come from San Francisco, which has experienced a 700% increase in arson in five years. Says Lieut. James Mahoney, chief investigator...
Carter does intend to propose taxing all capital gains at full ordinary-income rates (at present, only half the profit on sales of assets such as stock and real estate is usually taxed). Businessmen complain that that would inhibit the very investment the President says he is so anxious to promote. Says James L. Moody Jr., president of Hannaford Bros. Co., a Maine food distributor: "The chief incentive to invest in business is to make money. Such proposals will slow down businessmen's investments in the U.S. at a time when countries like the Soviet Union and Japan...
...interrogation was a meaningless charade, Keating realizes, because Jones based it on the false assumption that he and his viewers lived in a society which frowned on free enterprise and the profit motive...