Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chesimard's 274-page autobiography is heavy on childhood reminiscences, light on revolutionary activities and sprinkled with references to cops as "pigs." But television and movie deals are in the offing. "It makes me angry to think a person like Chesimard would want to profit from the capitalist enterprise that she wants to overthrow," said New Jersey State Police Superintendent Clinton Pagano...
...Insurance rates go up, insurance companies make a bigger profit. More profits, more jobs for insurance salesmen. More insurance salesmen, more boring cocktail parties. Bad parties, less drinking. Less drinking, higher efficiency in the workplace, larger profits, a better economy...
...league's contract with the television networks and ESPN guarantees that each team will break even. The first fan through the turnstile represents profit for these teams, and most of the franchises virtually fill their stadiums on season ticket sales alones. Each team plays only eight home games per year--one-tenth as many as baseball franchises--and sports diehards hungry for outdoor action between the end of the World Series and the beginning of spring training have little alternative...
After Falwell filed his bankruptcy plan, creditors carped over the slow repayment schedules. The Lifetime Partners agitated for a return on their investment, and were not mollified by such offers as discounts on Heritage enterprises or stock in a new for-profit corporation that would develop real estate and begin selling ads on the TV network. The judge's ruling, said Falwell angrily, made it likely that "barring a miracle of God," the disgraced Bakker would return to run PTL within six months. In the febrile world of evangelistic TV fund raising, as in TV generally, the show cannot...
...appearance in the White House briefing room the next day was as dramatic as any since Meese and Reagan announced the Iran-contra arms-profit diversion. "Were the fate of Robert Bork the only thing at stake," said the judge, his voice breaking with emotion, "I would ask the President to withdraw my nomination." But, lashing out at the aggressive drive to squash his confirmation, Bork said the appointment of judges must not be decided by "campaigns of distortion." The judge declared his nomination should be given a "full debate and final Senate decision...