Word: profiteering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...truth is that each of these candidates would be a better man if he lost the 2000 election. Life has been too kind to these princes. Both would profit from the loss. The nation would be better served. Gore and Bush could consider 2000 a dress rehearsal. They could learn from their mistakes and work to repair their inadequacies...
...idea, sparked by a local non-profit group, is to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote for members of the Cambridge School Committee and City Council. Students have rallied behind the proposal--about 50 attended a recent meeting with city councillors to present their case. They rightly argued that adolescents have other important privileges and that student voting would allow them to become involved in the political process at an earlier age. However, the most important reason to allow students to vote in school committee elections has nothing to do with civics or encouraging people to become life...
While both small-business buyers and sellers seem to be profiting, it's not yet clear that the auction sites will stay in the black. For some products and services, like computer equipment and brochure printing, the margins are small, leaving little room for exchanges to profit. And then there's always the possibility that, like the big automakers, small businesses in the same field could band together and establish their own exchanges, relying less on the dotcoms. It's unlikely this will happen anytime soon, according to Melissa Shore, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research. "The reason proprietary exchanges...
...that in the change from an agrarian to an industrial society, wine consumption in Italy and France has plummeted from 180 liters a person in 1900 to 40 liters now. And yet, over the past five years, Marchesi de' Frescobaldi has doubled sales, to $40 million, and hiked its profit margins from under 13% to better than...
...truth is that each of these candidates would be a better man if he lost the 2000 election. Life has been too kind to these princes. Both would profit from the loss. The nation would be better served. Gore and Bush could consider 2000 a dress rehearsal. They could learn from their mistakes, and work to repair their inadequacies...