Word: profitable
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Since the College prohibits individuals from operating companies out of their dorm rooms, individual students who wish to sell something using the Harvard name or shield for their own profit have two options. They can rent an off-campus location, incorporate their company and obtain a list of authorized manufacturers from the Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing, or they can work through Harvard Student Agencies, who will likewise obtain the list from the Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing...
...proposed law would place restrictions on the state's use of consultants. It would place various limits on the amount of profit, overhead charges and expenses that the state could pay consultants. It would limit the duration of consultant contracts to two years and any extension to one year, and it would limit the degree to which such contracts could be changed to require payments in excess of the original contract. The proposed law would limit to $100,000 the amount the state could pay on a consultant contract with an individual and would require all other consultant contracts...
...worked in the 1984 U.S. Senate campaign of Ray Shamie and three years later was appointed executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party. In 1988, Malone ran for the Senate, losing to Sen. Edward Kennedy. Malone was the founding executive director of the Massachusetts Civic Interest Council, a non-profit watchdog organization. His business interests include real estate projects and a health club...
...industry, not all companies have profited handsomely from the rise in crude prices. The big winners are mostly firms that own large petroleum reserves as well as those that sell large amounts of gasoline or oil products to others at wholesale. Arco, for example, which controls a large stake in Alaska's North Slope, enjoyed third-quarter earnings of $462 million, up 22% from last year. Some companies were losers because they lack major reserves but operate large retail networks of gas stations. Mobil, which buys an unusually high proportion (60%) of its crude oil from other companies, suffered...
...Harvard is reverting to the commercial priorities and government priorities which reflect those commercial priorities," said Nader. "Universities are turning themselves into commercial adjuncts to corporate profit-making agendas...