Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...company managed to pollute less than its share, it could receive permits representing the shortfall, which it could sell to firms that could not meet their target. That is where the power of greed comes in: companies would have an enormous incentive to cut their emissions so they could profit from peddling their surplus permits...
...Broadway it often seems that the sorry state of the musical is, like the weather, something everybody talks about but nobody does anything to change. That may be because everyone shares the blame. Unions impose cumbersome work rules, producers permit profit-busting budgets, and so on. The result is a system that penalizes old hands, shuts out newcomers almost entirely and yields barely one good new American musical a season. Last week a whole lot of somebodies, from Pulitzer prizewinners to giant media companies, decided to do something about...
While some students said they were upset with the cost of the painting, Webster said that with the cost of materials "most of the profit was personal...
...speculation on Wall Street is the possibility that Japan's tighter credit will trigger a major slide in the Tokyo market, which stands at 36,874, up from 13,000 in late 1985. Some Wall Street brokerage firms recently began selling a new product: warrants that allow investors to profit if the Tokyo market falls. But most investors do not fear a crash so much as a long, stubborn decline. If the January mood persists, the long-running bull market will go out not with a bang but with a long, drawn-out whimper...
...easy to carry on theft when a war is on and the police are practically out of action. We noticed just who was leading popular-front movements in the regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh: the director of a lucrative car-servicing center, the head of a local food emporium. They profit by the disorders to carry on their business. If we can't jail them, let's at least intern them in a sanatorium on the Volga River. We have been cutting off the tail without getting at the source...