Word: profiteering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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More worrisome is a broad slowdown in the crucial area of tech spending. It's no secret that tech is the ox that for years has pulled the market higher. Other industries, including retail and autos, are already in profit recessions. Without a vibrant tech sector, there is little to drive overall corporate profits higher...
...routes, Air Canada hit back with a legal challenge questioning the bureau's constitutional power to unilaterally restrict fare changes. The case is winding through a Quebec court. Air Canada dived into hot water again in October, when a corporate official sent voice-mail messages about the airline's profit forecasts to select stock analysts. The stock plunged the next day, outraging investors not privy to the information. Milton denied Air Canada had done anything wrong...
...Chretien cut back health care transfer payments to the Canadian provinces, effectively throwing the ball into the provinces' court for the insurance of universal health care security. This has opened the door to serious talk of privatizing health care services. In Alberta, Day's home province, for-profit clinics have been heralded as health care's future. Day himself is an enthusiastic proponent. Today, Chretien puts his support firmly behind government-funded health care. However, while his stance is laudable, he neglects to admit his role in forwarding the kind of two-tier health care system he criticizes...
...profit public service organization, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) has always struggled to find enough money...
Youths said their effort to lower the voting age was inspired by a local non-profit. Janice Lee of the Boston Area Youth Organizing Project helped to advise the student group...