Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...interested in public service, take advantage of the opportunities at this year's Career Forum. True, the Forum is comprised mainly of for-profit companies, unlike the BOSTON PUBLIC SERVICE CAREER DAY November 30. Nonetheless, there will be representatives of agencies working on a variety of issues: housing (Commitee for Boston Public Housing), health (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, international development (Peace Corps) and education (Teach for America and WorldTeach...
...humanities are traditionally important," said Gutas. "They are looked down upon in contemporary society because they are not profit-making...
...Meyer has a reputation for crossing traditional barriers between non-profit organizations and their money managers. At Rockefeller, the young money manager surprised his colleagues by showing a keen interest in the prestigious Foundation programs...
...Bill, set up a friendly little thrift that eventually became Mile High Savings and Loan. He was doing just what Congress had envisioned when it carved out a role for S&Ls in the early 1930s. Limited by law to making home loans and earning the narrow profit margins provided by a relatively stable real estate market, Mile High was helping propel the great American Dream of home ownership for everyone...
Wall was facing a deadline. On Dec. 31, the enormously generous tax benefits that could attract new investors would expire. So he mounted a closeout sale, adding profit guarantees and other subsidies for all comers. The big-money boys came running. In just four months, his agency unloaded some 114 shattered thrifts -- 71 in December alone -- at a cost to taxpayers calculated at nearly $70 billion...