Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, a non-profit institution, endorse SAS, a for-profit company, especially when the University's own officers are the ones making a profit? And while Harvard insists the deans observed all University conflict-of-interest regulations, how can this be reconciled with the fact that these deans could not possibly have gained their SAS posts--for which they were compensated on an hourly basis--without their direct ties to the University...
...Student Aid Services, Inc.--the private, for-profit company run by three Harvard officials and a Bowdoin College administrator--was formed in 1983 when the clerical work became "too burdensome" for Harvard to do itself, said Colby College President William R. Cotter...
...abandoned fields wind up in the hands of ranchers and speculators who have access to capital. Thanks to tax breaks and subsidies, these groups can often profit from the land even when their operations lose money. According to Roberto Alusio Paranhos do Rio Branco, president of the Business Association of the Amazon, nobody would farm Rondonia without government incentives and price supports for cocoa and other crops...
Mendes became a hero to environmentalists not only because he fought and died to stop deforestation but also because of the way of life he was defending. The rubber tappers are living proof that poor Brazilians can profit from the forest without destroying it. According to Stephan Schwartzman of the Environmental Defense Fund, seringueiros achieve a higher standard of living by harvesting the forest's bounty than do farmers who cut the forest and plant crops...
Since anti-trust legislation has historically been less strictly enforced for non-profit institutions, both college officials and legal experts are wondering why the Bush anti trust division--known for its laxness during recent Republican administrations--is suddenly pursuing the case...