Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government policy on inflation and interest rates. In Greenspan's view, the many uncertainties are preventing businessmen from making needed investments, such as expanded research programs to develop new sources of energy. Executives see such serious risks that they will start only projects promising a high, and quick, profit. Says Greenspan, borrowing a football term: "The market system's ability to adjust to perceived future imbalances is being blind-sided by these very high risks...
...companies go to South Africa largely in search of low wages. It is utopian to think they will willingly oppose a system which, like apartheid, has given them profit at a rate of 16-20 per cent--almost twice the average rate of profit in the U.S. Realizing this, black organizations have long called for a total boycott of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. The wages foreign investors pay South African blacks are so low, and the aid they give the apartheid regimes so great, that southern Africans fighting for freedom prefer to forego the small benefits of the firms...
...closer of sets against both pooh-bahs and publicity rodents. To get what is called "final cut" of Goodbar?which means complete control of the film and no changes to be made without his approval?he agreed to work for a minimal salary and a percentage of whatever profit there may be. To meet expenses, he is selling his house. Today this furious man speaks of Keaton with a kind of awe: "She has more artistic courage than anyone I know...
...kind of street along which you promenade, admiring discreetly price-tag-less clothes, jewelry and paintings. On one side is the oldest non-profit craft cooperative in the USA, on the other the oldest guild of artists. All these places proclaim their uniqueness with the fervor of the faithful in possession of a fragment of the True Cross. And if this were Paris the artists would litter the sidewalks chronicling the scene...
...Collins report, doctors frequently write "Coca-Cola baby" on the progress reports of infants hospitalized for malnutrition; Zambian mothers, assuming Coke must be good for children because it is so expensive, feed it to their babies instead of milk. The picture the authors paint of the human toll of profit-maximizing techniques is not a pretty...