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Benna, a Mather House economics concentrator, says that she hopes to rake in a hefty $200 to $300 profit by selling one pass...
EVEN AS THE FBI IS GAINING GROUND ON THE AMERICAN branch of the Mafia, it is getting ready to take on a new threat: the YAKUZA -- Japanese mobsters. An estimated 100,000 yakuza in Japan rake in some $10 billion a year from narcotics, extortion and loan-sharking. As the gangs channel that cash into legitimate investments in the U.S. and Europe, the FBI will be hard pressed to decipher the money trail. One reason: money laundering is not a crime in Japan, so the mobsters can operate through shell corporations without the kind of close scrutiny at home that...
...addition, Nader calls for giving taxpayers and consumers more control of public monopolies such as utilities and cable television. If corporations are to rake enormous profits from such monopolies, don't they owe something to the taxpayers and consumers who truly own public lands and the airwaves...
From a let's-beat-Bush-At-All-Costs perspective, I hope Buchanan will rake in around 37 percent. The last few decades show that no incumbent can give up that much in New Hampshire and still go on to win in November--Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Lyndon Johnson (who actually quit the race when Eugene McCarthy bagged 40 percent in the Granite state) are recent examples...
Lots of Harvard professors make a lot of money on the side selling their talents to corporations, governments, private clients. They write popular books. They rake in the honoraria...