How To Use Profiteer In A Sentence
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The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
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Even if it wasn't clear enough back when he assembled his "team of rivals" and welcomed Wall Street into his administration, it has been absolutely clear at least since he capitulated to "counterinsurgent" generals and their civilian enablers, and to health care profiteers, that, whatever he may think and feel "inside," Obama is not one of the "good guys.
Andrew Levine: Obama Winter and How to Combat It
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Vendors and seamstresses are profiteering from the sale of these items, and those interviewed have said that they are just trying to make a living.
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They had an affiliation with mobsters, drug dealings, illegal profiteers, and more, where they would store money, risk-free and securely, for everyone.
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Whether real estate is a big industry needs price flexibility, why real estate industry, known as profiteering industry, and many local real high?
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It trades grain amid food riots and has been accused of profiteering and environmental offences in numerous poor and war-torn countries.
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Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
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A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals.
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Is this shameless profiteering from peoples fears or is there a credible threat.
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He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread.
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She will signal her determination to tackle energy, phone and broadband companies that rip off consumers, as well as profiteering house builders.
Times, Sunday Times
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To prevent profiteering on bad news, the wagers would have been kept small.
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When & if these fucking thieving war-criminal profiteers swing for their crimes against humanity, I want Bernhard right up there with 'em, and every motherfucker from the board of Halliburton, Shell, British Petroleum & ExxonMobil.
Your Right Hand Thief
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It was originally passed during the Civil War to combat war-profiteering (hence the “Lincoln Law”), but health care fraud recoveries have now far outstripped recoveries from the traditional target of the defense industry.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it” (continued)
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A copyleft license blocks profiteers from copyrighting collaborative software by preemptively copyright-protecting it, and contractually allowing people to freely use and modify it only if they agree to pass on the freedoms given to them.
Five words shaping our future
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Here is the "positive change" that Gates, Broad, and the impatient "disruptor" profiteers would like to see:
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Actually, deceiving people to perpetuate profiteering is very rightwing.
Think Progress » Steve King Blows Up, Physically Grabs TP Blogger When Asked About His Justification Of IRS Attack
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Banks and ATM operators must not be allowed to engage in profiteering at the expense of people in rural and regional areas.
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The report pointed out some of the worst of the war profiteers.
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One or two of the dialogue scenes, in particular the one showing international war-profiteers enjoying a grouse shoot, have a dated, agitprop feel.
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The beneficiaries were profiteers from war industries whose boldly flaunted new wealth intensified social tensions.
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Meanwhile, as far as everybody else is concerned, this staging of Arthur Miller's postwar drama about a grieving family coming to terms with a profiteering father's guilt, was a 24-carat stonker.
What to say about ... All My Sons
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Rent controls were introduced to prevent profiteering.
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The profiteers are very resourceful in buncoing Mr. Block.
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I also see the other side of the coin, and I believe that most of the companies in the cleanup game are no better than war profiteers.
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The ostensible justification for this profiteering at public expense is the cost of research into new drugs.
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And you talk about companies being culpable not only for dealing directly with the South African government, but for what you call profiteering from apartheid, for supporting the apartheid system, which could be interpreted as any investment in the economy there ...
CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2002
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Possibly they were simply profiteering from the sudden influx of US support, or stocking up in anticipation of a future power struggle.
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Thus we have four distinct types of people involved in the incident as bandwagon accusers: (1) the cynical avaricious/profiteering sort, (2) the naive but self-centeredly good-intentioned true-believers, (3) the revolutionary murderers/crusaders, and (4) the cowardly.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Administration’s Response
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While some people were busy fighting and dying, war profiteers made fortunes selling rotten food, unserviceable uniforms and non-working weapons.
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The aim of the measure was to stem the outflow of foreign currency and to stop profiteering.
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A rational society should draw a line Between legitimate profit - making and exploitative profiteering.
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Global water profiteering is at the center of a global healthcare crisis that kills more people than AIDS or malaria.
Boing Boing
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But he was outmaneuvered by politicians, teacher union activists, and school officials, who thought he was out to profiteer from poor children.
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The aim of the measure was to stem the outflow of foreign currency and to stop profiteering.
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But if we situate its controversial coverage in a general climate of political profiteering and impunity of leaders, then Al Jazeera appears more a network on a mission, not only to report but to restore Arab dignity and replace muzzled politics with a new culture of civil dialogue.
Nabil Echchaibi: Al Jazeera and the Promise of the Arab Revolution
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Until the public shakes loose the iron grip of these money-grabbing profiteers, crime and the prison population will continue to rise.
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In a country that promotes the virtues of the free market, he died for the benefit of the war profiteers and for very little benefit to himself.
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The streets, once bustling with peddlers, coca farmers and shady profiteers are now quiet at night.
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But he was outmaneuvered by politicians, teacher union activists, and school officials, who thought he was out to profiteer from poor children.
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It will become even harder to swing public opinion behind humanitarian interventions if war profiteers and racist thugs are direct beneficiaries.
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Just think how much more evolved we would be if the control system of the elite and their desire to profiteer from wars and corporate imperialization were part of our basic, national debate on what we should do with wars and healthcare ...
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The city's streets are congested with men pushing heavy bricks and building materials on carts among the sport utility vehicles of relief workers, government officials, diplomats and drug profiteers.
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Today's conflict profiteers are not the first to sponsor a campaign to ransack, rape, pillage and plunder in the Congo.
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The experience tilted the historical scales towards the war profiteers and the army's most successful commander - Napoleon Bonaparte.
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By bypassing profiteering intermediaries, farmers can get a fair price for their product.
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The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
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Trustees were walking a tightrope by striving to curb profiteering while keeping generous benefactors happy, she added.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hidden forces may yet take vengeance on lax town planners and profiteering builders in a drastic and unpredictable way.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Scorsese has achieved a first here: making a film that celebrates a war profiteer.
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Without warning, they proceeded to side with the corporate war profiteers, and use violence to suppress nonviolent free speech.
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Mr Davis also suggests that some banks have been guilty of ‘profiteering’ through cash machine charges, and we can only agree.
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With the buzz about a possible war helping to drive prices ever higher, we'll look at whether profiteers are gouging you by the gallon.
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With their outfit of cavalier managers and thirsty shareholders they bullwhipped the lines into a profiteering frenzy.
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The next batch of profiteers comes in various guises and shapes.
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The Republican base wants to know their next Republican president will be equally willing to imperialize the world in order for them to profiteer off of it.
Crooks and Liars
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The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
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To the region's hydroelectric profiteers, this means that ‘their’ generators are being ‘robbed’ of kilowatt dollars by juvenile salmon.
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Rent controls were introduced to prevent profiteering.
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It dramatized the challenge of trying to pose as a progressive leader while maintaining a profiteering, corrupt political organization.
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While war can result in profit for a few, it is not the case that the entire system of a free economy depends on such wartime profiteering.
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He argued that Carson, while claiming to be a disinterested patriot, was defending the private interests of profiteering firms.
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On his quest he meets a bizarre array of treasure hunters, profiteers and traffickers, all with an unquenchable thirst for the hoard that has eluded man for centuries.
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‘They are profiteering from it and we should be making it clear that the time is up for them,’ he stated.
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The actions that took place can be read and heard about on dc. indymedia.org, including support for APOC's "smack a white boy (distr) action" call out of ANSWER, a few broken windows in VA at war profiteers 'offices, a home demo on council member Jack Evans - who has singlehandedly waged a war on DC homeless population and and few visits to and inside the IMF and World Bank buildings.
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The pharmaceutical company has been charged with profiteering from the AIDS crisis.
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Of course, facilitators like Joe see no ethical conflict in profiteering on their connections.
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Maria, originally from Belvedere Drive, started campaigning against "excessive profiteering" when she was charged €6 for a small bottle of wine in a city bar in November 2003.
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Reply: Add to your on target point the fact .. that after the soviet backruptcy the US visa program which is lottery for thieves opened up the black market profiteers to come from Russian/Ukraine andother countriesand launder their money through legitimate or vaccuum corporations through the EB-5 and some other visa programs.
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He went after bootleggers, who sent him and his family death threats, he raided a Chinese opium kingpin who was paying off Buffalo cops, cracked down on coal profiteers, prosecuted strikers who had dynamited a rail line, and even had Schwab in court on liquor violation charges.
Wild Bill Donovan
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‘No one is going to be seen to be profiteering from these tragic events,’ one senior trader said at the weekend.
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From the Feast Day of Saint Catherine in 1999 to Holy Saturday in 2000, through Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, andalmost Easter, it was all Elián all the time in a fiesta of conspiracy theories, theological contortionism, shameless profiteering, and spectacular bullshit.
Dream State
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Profiteering in a time of shortage is wrong.Sentencedict
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US and French delegates immediately rejected the idea declaring that it could lead to smuggling and profiteering.
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I vividly recall his hyping of Saddam's supposed "Gathering Storm" and his best selling profiteering thereby.
When Good News Is “A Real Big Problem”
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As a result of the restrictions and profiteering, farmers left crops to rot in the fields and there are reports of malnutrition.
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The circle has come right back around to the most vile kind of profiteering utilitarianism.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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He made no apology for the haste with which he got about his profiteering.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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According to me – They want the middle east to explode in conflagration – people slaughtered so they can reap billions on scant oil supplies and sub-par armaments produced by war profiteering companies.
Think Progress » Remembering Iraq.
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So the futures of over 3500 workers and their families are under threat from profiteers who are unaccountable to these workers or to anyone else - unaccountable to any franchise other than their major shareholders.
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In this case, however, I suspect the motivation is just good old-fashioned profiteering.
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In the process, he unravelled the labyrinthine means by which a painting bought by war profiteers and sold to German army looters found its way into the cultural heart of Britain.
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Science has played into the hands of reaction and extreme-right profiteering since the days of the Industrial Revolution.
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Overall, their problem was not middlemen profiteering but inadequate demand.
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While some people were busy fighting and dying, war profiteers made fortunes selling rotten food, unserviceable uniforms and non-working weapons.
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In a situation of total economic chaos, only a small number of profiteers have something to gain.
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They chanted anti-government slogans and carried placards denouncing the war profiteers.
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That can then lay the basis for future battles to begin rolling back privatisation and drive the profiteers out of public services.
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We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
Matthew Yglesias » Bartlett: New Deal Failed Because It Wasn’t Big Enough
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We cannot be seen to be profiteering from the misery of thousands of underpaid nurses.
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Between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day
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In other words, everything would have been fine if Andy had just kept his sideboard profiteering in check.
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Hidden forces may yet take vengeance on lax town planners and profiteering builders in a drastic and unpredictable way.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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As an investment activity it is driven by tax-levered debt, tax minimisation, capital gains arbitrage and profiteering.
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We repeat our central point that what is needed to combat profiteering across a wide range of goods is price control on essential goods and services.
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| Reply | Permalink nephew died iniraq from ied he was getting out after forcefu; lly being deployed to iraq for a second time, my nest friends died in vietnam who were drafted by lbj and congress as me, dont know what me being a draftee and doing my duty and taking my oath to uphokd and defend this country means as adraftee i did my duty and have lived with the fcat that the vietcong didnt ask you if you were adfratee or regular army we all bled died and cried and got wounded blow to hell to come back to this country tolive with the likes of mitch mcconnell i fromtexas mitch you chickenhawks are adisgrace to this country i call home we suffered a lot cuase of being drafteed to fight the vietnam war maybe if you had served invietnam when this nationneeded the cheneys bushes and mcconnells in vietnam they chose to dodge the draft and get educated wedidnt have rich families and dads ingovernment to hide behind and avoid combat we went may be if you had goner as adraftee you would know that being asoldier doesnt require to be professional or drafted we were all told to learn everything we teach ya your going to vietnam i, m a mexican american and my family lost soldiers in vietnam and iraq you best be apoligizing dude cause you as arepublican have done us veterans of war an injustice maybe you should resign you are the one always shooting down the redeployment resolutions down trying to keep troops in iraq may be you should resign and stop obstructing our kids coming home from iraq, i hope kentucky is embarresed enough to boot your rear out in ovember america has no need for war profiteers and war monger thank you
GOP Senate Leader McConnell Appears To Belittle Deaths Of American Troops
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Between 1554 and 1556, when he became the major provisioner of Habsburg troops, he made a second fortune profiteering from the war with France.
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It requires the ruthless repression of all those who oppose the US domination of Iraq and believe that the country should be run by the Iraqi people themselves, rather than US proconsuls, generals and corporate profiteers.
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Governments and international bodies must protect the real productive economy from excessive risk-taking, speculation, and short-term profiteering in the financial sector.
Nathan Gardels: Papandreou: "There Is a Real Danger in Global Austerity"
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It is not hyperbole to say that those beneficiaries of wartime tax cuts and contract deals should now be called war profiteers.
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Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
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Unlike the greedy profiteers and corporate chieftains who actually made money on those stocks, we were not acting irresponsibly.
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To Republicans, war profiteering is just good national security policy.
Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
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He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread.
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The sale may also reignite the controversy over alleged profiteering.
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As wars create profiteers and environmental destruction, they also raise the opportunity for building real democratic control from below over the earth's richest resources.
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The sale may also reignite the controversy over alleged profiteering.
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There may be as much ideology here as profiteering, but we don't yet know.
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High oil prices got nothing to do with OPEC but with a bunch of dudes in Wall St profiteering from the forward price of oil.
Bartlett rips McClellan, calls allegation 'total crap'
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Instead, however, he finds himself very much in the position Franklin Roosevelt described in a famous 1936 speech, struggling with “the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.”
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies
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So we must contend that this was just a shot at profiteering that they thought they'd get away with but got caught.
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So how much profiteering is built into our heathcare system? demwit
Obama praises agreement to cut drug costs for senior citizens
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By changing the rules of the game of business so that sociopathic business behavior is no longer rewarded (and, indeed, is punished -- as Teddy Roosevelt famously did as the "trustbuster" and FDR did when he threatened to send "war profiteers" to jail), we can create a less dysfunctional and more egalitarian society.
Thom Hartmann: Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks
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It doesn't work, it oppresses the weak, and merely plays into the pockets of the drug profiteers - from the generals to the cartels and the banks who launder the money.
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The people profiteering off of the growth perpetuate the problem and have a human obligation to correct the problems.
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Land would only be released to young locals who wished to settle in the area, and financial rules would be put in place to prevent profiteering if they wanted to sell and move on.
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Event promoters called the profiteering ‘particularly upsetting’ as official proceeds are going to cancer and children's charities.
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The entire setup glorifies short term profiteering, with corners sliced and vested interests served.
Hisham Wyne: Enterprise Is a State of Mind
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Profiteering , say some. However, that accusation up to much scrutiny either.
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He was, in other words, a war profiteer - though a very unskilled one, unable to survive his exile without borrowing even more money from the brother-in-law who had once sent him smuggling.
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The price hike in garlic was mainly caused by hoarding and profiteering.
