Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political Pressures. To keep this flood of cash moving and to make a profit, U.S. banks have been lending these funds to LDCs. But, Triffin believes, in taking on this responsibility the banks are making themselves too vulnerable to pressures from their oil-rich depositors. In any disagreement with U.S. policy, a bloc of OPEC nations could quickly withdraw its deposits, possibly leading to a dangerous disruption in the foreign exchange market...
...Bicentennial beating. Sturbridge came close to shutting its doors one day a week during the winter months until the National Endowment for the Humanities last month produced a $540,000 three-for-one matching grant. Plimouth Plantation ended last year with an $83,000 deficit, v. a $61,000 profit...
...nation is not nearly good enough for GM? Hardly. The disparity can be tracked not to some hidden spectrum of social values but to two distinct systems of compensation. In business, pay levels are established by clear criteria toward the equally clear purpose of increasing production and profit; by and large, the system rewards most those most crucial to fulfilling that purpose. On the other hand, in government, which serves perennially disputed purposes-with results beyond measure-the salary scale reflects nothing more precise than the politicians' best guess at the maximum the public will tolerate...
...Mart. And profit they do. All the used cars fetch higher prices than the sticker cost of a new car. Buyers in tailored overcoats roam among the aging Fiats, Opels, Czech Skodas and Polish Warszawas, checking out the odometers and the prices, which are listed on hand-lettered signs stuck behind the windshield. On a recent Sunday, for example, one man was trying to sell his 1977 Lada (a Soviet-built Fiat), with 6,000 kilometers on the clock, for $11,000; new-when available-the car sells for $5,570. "It's crazy," said one visitor...
...perceived--and more forcefully expressed--interest in presenting their viewpoint to bureaucrats than do consumers. A consumer may spend ten hours a week in his car, but for the President of General Motors, producing automobiles is a full-time job. These regulations hit where it hurts most--in the profit margin...