Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing is safe from her depredations, not even endangered species. Government agents recently rounded up a band of poachers accused of slaughtering hundreds of black bears in the Northeastern U.S., ripping out their gallbladders and selling them for profit. The gallbladders are dried and ground into powder and sent to Asia, where they are sold for as much as $540 an oz. for "medicinal" purposes. Men who take a tiny pinch of the powder are convinced that it enhances their libido. They believe that if you devour parts of a powerful animal, you will absorb its sexual vitality...
...Harvard can't say that they are a non-profit organization that fundraises with a tin cup, given the size of their endowment. We have to look at them as we would any corporation...
...times, Harvard comes to the table saying, `We're a non-profit organization, and we can't afford such expenses,'" Bozzotto says, adding that non-profit is merely "paper-status" for the University...
...Harvard can't say that they are a non-profit organization that fundraises with a tin cup, given the size of their endowment," Bozzotto says. "We have to look at them as we would any corporation...
...conference, entitled "Fundamental Reform of the Schools: What Does It Look Like?" was sponsored by the non-profit Pioneer Institute...