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"profiteering" Definitions
  1. the act of making a lot of money in an unfair way, for example by asking very high prices for things that are hard to get

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The government will not allow "illegal profiteering, unethical profiteering", Kumar said.
He also aimed to close regulatory loopholes to stop profiteering.
The effects of pure profiteering on this cost are immeasurable.
Iran has cracked down on businessmen it accuses of profiteering.
Personal profiteering must be put aside to ensure national prosperity.
The temptation to take part in the profiteering was substantial.
How are artists (particularly "diverse" artists) instrumentalized as cover for profiteering?
They have held up aid and are accused of war profiteering.
Ultimately, land conservation incentives should inspire charitable giving, not wrongful profiteering.
Hopefully people will see it for the Obvious profiteering it is.
He is a poppycock painter, perfect in his personifying puffy profiteering.
Even Trump's ideological supporters will have a hard time justifying profiteering.
The problem is this mismatch between profiteering and the public interest.
And she's certainly not responsible for the toxic, profiteering culture in Hollywood.
Trump's moves are aimed at self-aggrandizement and self-profiteering as well.
Sanders's plan also calls for franchise caps to prevent monopolies or profiteering.
The proposals raise obvious questions about war profiteering and conflicts of interest.
Some Trump officials, though, seem to be profiteering on their official policies.
It would be tragic to see it wither thanks to crass profiteering.
The policy also made weight-loss profiteering a violation of community guidelines.
Ride-hailing app companies, they said, were profiteering off a terror attack.
The relationship becomes less about shared profiteering and more about shared values.
"Both sides were looting, both sides were profiteering from this," Azm remarked.
That profiteering is a feature, not a bug, of the payday loan industry.
Its extravagant costs, seldom covered by insurance (the profiteering she reports is outrageous).
He wasn't profiteering during the conflict — he was taking risks and creating jobs.
Toilet paper shortages, profiteering from hand sanitizer and empty shelves in grocery stores.
Tech, with its pseudo-utopian airs and surveillance-profiteering, is a tempting scapegoat.
"We will come out with our anti-profiteering rules soon," Adhia said, without elaborating.
The disparaging sense isn't recorded until the 1570s; the profiteering sense dates from 1774.
We'll just stop our sickness profiteering and go open a yoga studio or something.
It is a persuasive refutation of Mr Trump's attempt to defend his presidential profiteering.
In place of pranks and profiteering are now exploitation, malice, fraud, racketeering, and warfare.
The government has equated high margins charged for some medical devices with "illegal profiteering".
The cost of living has also soared, provoking sporadic demonstrations against profiteering and corruption.
I'm tired of being demonized as a profiteering industry that preys on the poor.
Uber has been accused of sexual harassment, stealing trade secrets and profiteering off protests.
Instead, we have a duty to confront these machines and the profiteering behind them.
Activists denounced private prison companies and some Wall Street banks as profiteering on detention.
So, America, undo the hurt of TV no longer ruthlessly profiteering from baby boomers!
But Trump will argue that Biden family profiteering was ignored by the Obama administration.
" I asked him how he'd made his fortune, and the short answer was "profiteering.
They accused their commander of gross misconduct, mistreating prisoners of war and war profiteering.
In October, Trump accused some signatories to the nuclear deal of profiteering from the accord.
Even in the 1970s President Richard Nixon accused supermarkets of profiteering and introduced price controls.
His ambitions are ultimately his undoing—unscrupulous profiteering, the story suggests, is a punishable sin.
The public has learned, once again, that lawmakers may be profiteering in the stock market.
Two more articles may be added without much effort: IV. Presidential Profiteering by Illegal Emoluments.
That "everybody does it" does not excuse such political profiteering or make it less unseemly.
The result was too often inefficient big government and rampant profiteering via a Leviathan state.
"What could look like unjust profiteering is in essence just a flat marketplace," Asaro explains.
Uber, however, kept its drivers on the road, fueling the perception that the company was profiteering.
Roberson's story would be analogous, except it likely wasn't a profiteering photographer who sold her photo.
Because every visit is logged on a smartphone, random checks ensure no opportunistic profiteering takes place.
Apparently Europe's nightclubs are not profiteering from the renaissance of electronic music we currently live in.
Ron Wyden, the senior Democrat on the committee, denounced the industry's "two-faced scheming and profiteering".
"In cases where the temptation of profiteering is strong, certain safeguards could be useful," Hourdequin says.
So, if that contact is rationed because of phone company profiteering, the result is more recidivism.
That is why Mr. Trump's Chinese and other foreign profiteering has been challenged in American courts.
Indeed, America botched the occupation of Iraq in part thanks to profiteering by politically connected businesses.
But "Saving Banksy" has a larger goal: pointedly weighing graffiti's populist ethos against art-world profiteering.
"There's a large number of adversaries really interested in profiteering or sabotaging organizations digitally," Bauer said.
Seven pharmaceutical executives defended high drug prices at a Senate hearing, insisting they were not profiteering.
At a certain point, the Gülen people began a campaign to expose profiteering in Erdogan's family.
For profiteering use-cases the company rarely sits on its hands when it comes to engineering "challenges".
So if this is what profiteering from my work looks like, I'm not very good at it.
Here's one huge improvement airlines could make for free: they could drop the condescension and the profiteering.
"Organized crime gangs are targeting and profiteering from these vulnerable and often desperate people," Mr. Javid wrote.
Clinton's plan against "profiteering" companies would impose monthly caps on consumer costs and limits on company advertising.
The government has blamed the crisis on local factories and profiteering traders hoarding stocks to push up price.
Rather than distance themselves from this profiteering, private schools have incorporated it into their pitch to prospective donors.
She began to worry that she'd participated in a profiteering land grab under the pretext of environmental custodianship.
Given his profiteering and penchant for pulling faces, you might expect he and Trump share some core values.
" Describing the financial dealings of Mr. Sanchez and his colleagues, he said, "I think the word is 'profiteering.
They know that Americans divide along partisan lines when asked whether his profiteering presents a conflict of interest.
The consultancy returned millions of dollars in fees after South African authorities implicated it in a profiteering scheme.
No obvious reason, that is, except the huge opportunities for cronyism and profiteering that would be opened up.
George Clooney is pulling back the curtain on the shadowy world of corruption and profiteering fueling Africa's deadliest conflicts.
And then he pioneered the profiteering and patronage that lined the pockets of the men who oversaw the game.
The restrictions were part of a broader push by India to end what it called "illegal profiteering" by companies.
The combination of rising prices, concentrated supply, and extensive price discrimination has created widespread concerns about profiteering and unfairness.
Therefore, the growing narrative insinuating some deceptive, profiteering motives with regards to user data does not resonate with me.
The actual wars we fight are marked by profiteering, and employ as many private contractors as they do soldiers.
When Trump was running for office, he criticized the profiteering of the federal government on the student loan program.
Health care profiteering also depends on exorbitant prices for medical equipment and deceptive marketing for expensive brand-name drugs.
But, in a war waged by private contracting, the line between profit and profiteering can be hard to define.
Red Century The name Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is not often linked with wartime profiteering and black-market smuggling gangs.
His avowed opposition to private-sector health care — and what he views as excessive profiteering in general — isn't new.
They steal tens of millions of dollars, a kind of digital profiteering more common among organized criminals than government cyberspies.
Where the headline rate of tax goes up under GST, the government will be vigilant in seeking to prevent profiteering.
"This is shameless, corrupt and repugnant presidential profiteering," Shaub tweeted in a blistering commentary on Trump's potential conflicts of interest.
He probes the networks behind the "pill mills": the profiteering clinic-owners and complicit professionals who make the carnage possible.
All the insatia (Ph) was relationships the leaks and the self-profiteering by people like John Brennan and his ilk.
As we've seen on Capitol Hill this month, both parties are happy to accuse drugmakers of "profiteering" for political gain.
"It is nonsense...It is simply not the case that anyone is profiteering," Tyler told Reuters, asked about the report.
When President Trump was running for office, he decried the profiteering of the federal government on the student loan program.
What originally started out as a "splendid idea" soon got them into hot water over perceived profiteering from horrific injuries.
It is the inability to talk about vaginas without shame that is at the very core of genital-tract profiteering.
Over the years, I have written about the obvious profiteering by members through insider information, stock manipulation, and sweetheart deals.
At least some of the blame for the scale of these epidemics lands squarely on profiteering shoulders of tenement owners.
Doing profiteering one better, this system turned war itself into a means of production, guaranteeing that conflict would never end.
In the age of mass digital surveillance and brazen data profiteering, even a base level of trust can seem naive.
Increased efficiency and less profiteering should mean that more people would be covered and could afford the care they needed.
As a government agency, the F.D.A. is supposed to serve as a bulwark between corporate profiteering and the public welfare.
As part of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive, it was decided that China's golf courses were hotbeds of profiteering and bribery.
The cost of living has also soared, sparking sporadic demonstrations against profiteering and corruption, with many protestors chanting anti-government slogans.
"Private ownership of energy networks has led to excess profiteering at the expense of investment in infrastructure," the Labour document said.
"Just because there's a breakdown in municipal services, that doesn't mean there should be an aperture for corporate profiteering," Scharper said.
The public prosecutor has charged several private silo owners and others with profiteering, forgery and enabling the embezzlement of public funds.
Though the Gemstones might be a more rough-around-the-edges amalgamation, their slick charisma and excessive profiteering are easily recognizable.
The cost of living has also soared, provoking sporadic demonstrations against profiteering and corruption, with many protesters chanting anti-government slogans.
"This for sure would kill off this kind of profiteering," Steve Rosenthal, a fellow at the Tax Policy Center, told me.
Silicon Valley has enough issues already: Tech companies are compromising our elections, upholding monopolies, and profiteering from the abuse of privacy.
There are too many people profiteering off of the pain of people in America from the—from pharmaceutical companies to insurers.
Demand is so high and prices are soaring so much that governments and some retailers are cracking down on disease profiteering.
Instead, Ross declared that the price changes were the work of "antisocial" speculators engaged in "profiteering," and called for an investigation.
Syrians, he argues, are entitled to "self-determination and to sovereignty," against the "imperialist domination" and "war profiteering" of American interventions.
On the other hand, businesses continue to prioritize profiteering over essential security investments that are fundamental to safeguarding future IoT products.
"I would argue there's an awful lot of profiteering off of people's fears and misunderstanding implicit in this weird Instagram world."
Internet privacy concerns finally became unignorable with the cloud, and the seedy underbelly of Big Data profiteering showed itself through Facebook.
The cost of living has also soared, sparking sporadic demonstrations against profiteering and corruption, with many protesters chanting anti-government slogans.
Disaster profiteering and war profiteering isn't a new concept, but it really deepened under the Bush administration after 9/11, when the administration declared this sort of never-ending security crisis, and simultaneously privatized it and outsourced it—this included the domestic, privatized security state, as well as the [privatized] invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2018, 14 pharmaceutical companies made at least $1 billion in profits and drug companies have been vilified for health care profiteering.
Thousands on this journey are susceptible to the people smugglers profiteering from their desperate bids to escape war-torn Syria and Yemen.
"Most ­profiteering companies heeded promoters' warnings not to trade and resell tickets that would instantly be cancelled," Sheeran's rep told the tabloid.
The country has an anti-corruption watchdog, the Commission of Integrity, but that too is said to have succumbed to factional profiteering.
Many takes on the character, including his recent MCU portrayal, focus specifically on Tony wrestling with concerns over his company's war profiteering.
While the fishermen say they have a moral obligation to help desperate fellow Muslims escaping persecution, Bangladeshi officials accuse them of profiteering.
Australia's largest commercial bank, Commonwealth Bank and AMP have also been sued by investors over the revelations, including fee gouging and profiteering.
In an effort to limit profiteering, the hit musical "Hamilton" took two steps this week intended to make reselling tickets more difficult.
Roth's critique is bolstered by the stunning tales of corporate malfeasance and unscrupulous profiteering that Jaffe identifies, from Walmart to Wall Street.
Under Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan authorities accused Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of Globovisión, a TV station frequently critical of the government, of illegal profiteering.
After notoriously profiteering from the genocide of Europe's Jews, the company is now is willing to profiteer from the omnicide of Australia.
With multiple factions happily profiteering from the conflict, the appearance of star-crossed lovers — who inherently symbolize peace — represents a dire threat.
The focus on drug industry profiteering marks this book as the latest entry in a growing canon of Big Bad Pharma books.
The incident caused public outrage at the employees' alleged profiteering as well as at insufficient safeguards to prevent this kind of thing happening.
The currency's collapse and soaring inflation have sparked sporadic demonstrations in Iran against profiteering and corruption, with many protesters chanting anti-government slogans.
But the government should look for additional ways to crack down on PBM profiteering on all drugs -- not just those covered by Medicare.
The Houthis cannot be allowed to continue abusing Hodeida's port; the smuggling of weapons, profiteering on aid and black-market dealings must end.
"It's unconscionable how people are profiteering off the pain of others, and we're going to make sure we hold them accountable," he said.
On Saturday, Ejei said 18 people had been arrested over alleged profiteering from foreign exchange dealings and the illegal importing of luxury cars.
People on both sides argue and shout their respective positions, then retreat back to their respective corners, while the profiteering and butchery continues.
The plunge in the currency and soaring inflation have sparked sporadic demonstrations against profiteering and corruption, with many protesters chanting anti-government slogans.
Promotion in the media as a breakthrough therapy is premature and likely to foster unregulated prescribing and profiteering by some professionals and industry.
Following a catastrophic potato crop failure in the 1840s, famine had devastated Ireland and roused deep antipathy toward profiteering by the ruling class.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a spike in fake news and profiteering that's testing the industry's ability to crack down on harmful content.
This mythology blinds us, however, to the actual forces of history that work to limit our choices — legacies of genocide, oppression, prejudice, profiteering.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a spike in fake news and profiteering that's testing the industry's ability to crack down on harmful content.
But if the company had left the surge on, the same protesters would have probably accused it of profiteering off the work stoppage.
And the premiums they charged had an added benefit for producers — helping reduce profiteering by resellers, and reclaiming money for investors and artists.
"In 2017 alone, health industry players whose profiteering would end under Medicare-for-all unleashed more than 2,500 lobbyists on Washington," she writes.
Glasgow-based Caledonia Cremation is just one social enterprise exploring alternative business models to traditional funeral providers, which are sometimes accused of profiteering.
Booker's legislation, dubbed the Stop Overdraft Profiteering Act of 2018, would bar banks from imposing overdraft fees on debit card or ATM transactions.
Booker's legislation, dubbed the Stop Overdraft Profiteering Act of 2019, would bar banks from imposing overdraft fees on debit card or ATM transactions.
Hezbollah media outlets are accusing him and his men of confiscating food in Madaya, holding the population hostage, and profiteering during the crisis.
The currency's collapse and soaring inflation have sparked sporadic demonstrations in Iran against profiteering and corruption, with many protesters chanting anti-government slogans.
But dubious health claims — whether by some profiteering huckster or simply well-meaning people trying to improve their health — go far beyond just vaccines.
Beyond the pretty bald profiteering embedded in that structure, the hitch is that iQOS is perhaps one of the worst-designed products since Juicero.
Profiteering has pushed nature to the brink, placing our own survival in peril due to overexploitation of the natural world and worsening climate change.
If anyone has any ideas for how to make $81.9 million that don't involve hedge funds or war profiteering, slide on into my DMs.
Commerce is also investigating recent steel price hikes in the United States to determine whether some market participants are "illegitimately profiteering" from new tariffs.
Say, "seer" + "ring," which I thought of because of some of the crosses I had, then "prophet" + "ring," much closer, then "profit" + "earring" = PROFITEERING.
Activists boycotted Dow Chemical's products, staged protests at its recruiting events on college campuses and barraged its executives with accusations of unethical war profiteering.
The lawsuit involves charges of profiteering and exploitation, calling the images "spoils of theft" and Harvard's "dominion" over them itself the equivalent of slavery.
Shot in just 24 days in Brooklyn, N.Y., "Depraved" updates Mary Shelley's classic tale with a coating of wartime trauma and medical-breakthrough profiteering.
Since I began covering the corrupting influence of money on politics 30 years ago, profiteering by family members of the president has invited scandal.
But Mr. Kooiker accuses American steel makers of profiteering at his expense, using the tariffs as an opportunity to raise prices by 25 percent.
Some of the highest price increases are in the meat market, where profiteering is at a high, prompting local newspapers to call for a crackdown.
But it could also fuel a technologically driven move toward surveillance capitalism or a surveillance state – profiteering or big brother instead of trust and security.
If there's fraud, if there's betrayal of students, if there's profiteering, a single school may suffer in the short term but eventually it'll hurt everyone.
The real corruption that is sucking the blood out of today's Russia is the industrial-scale profiteering taking place at the top of the system.
The USAID findings, which also documented other irregularities in the handling of its humanitarian grants on the ground, raised worry about profiteering in the sector.
Committee investigators say they have uncovered evidence of possible illegal profiteering, questionable consent forms and inappropriate collusion between scientists seeking fetal tissue and abortion providers.
Yes, there are rules that are supposed to prevent that kind of profiteering, but does anyone think those rules would be enforced under current management?
While some would be disgusted at this sort of profiteering – and the sale of air on eBay has previously been prohibited – we wholeheartedly encourage it.
Nathan was falsely accused of profiteering from Napoleon's bloody defeat at Waterloo, an utterly false smear that stuck to all European Jews for 200 years.
The process has not been exactly frictionless, shot through with accusations of empire-building and profiteering by the campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and his allies.
My feeling is that if the Sealord of Braavos or other powers in Braavos knew of this profiteering, they would have their heads on pikes.
The hoodies themselves feature details that seemingly resemble bullet holes — a design decision that many are finding uncouth at best and tragedy-profiteering at worst.
Some militares had the nerve to accuse the families of profiteering, and to seize their hard-won supplies when they tried to enter the hospital.
BAE Systems has come under increasing scrutiny for providing arms to Saudi-Arabia and has long been the subject of war profiteering and fraud allegations.
The weapons manufacturer isn't the only board member with ties to war profiteering and the Trump administration at a progressive institution like the Whitney Museum.
While it is important to hold the Sacklers accountable for their alleged predatory profiteering, there is a larger lesson to be learned from this debacle.
Why they might not: The fight over Larsson's estate was polarizing, with some fans of the original trilogy vehemently swearing they'd never touch the profiteering sequels.
Successive governments have failed to agree on a permanent solution for the chronic electricity failures, largely because of profiteering, endemic corruption and lack of political will.
The venture was highly profitable, but then, "we thought profiteering off swine flu was quite poor form, so we donated the money to charity," he says.
In 2007, as fraud and grift in Iraq and Afghanistan ran "into untold billions," legislators attempted to close a loophole in the laws against war profiteering.
Further, the former Vice President offered specific policy responses to the immediate crisis, while Sanders kept touting Medicare for All and warning about "profiteering" pharmaceutical companies.
"The Prime Minister is clear that we don't want to see profiteering of any kind, and traders must stop any excessive price increases," the spokesman said.
You can see that concretely when Democrats support corporate-style trade deals, vote for Republican-lite corporate tax cuts or pimp for insurance industry-profiteering protections.
But by 29 it has become something between a meme and a shrug, applied to so many profiteering corporate outrages that it almost loses its meaning.
The price of a strip would be much lower if it wasn't fattened by profiteering, said Gretchen Obrist, one of the lawyers who brought the case.
The Royal Commission in Australia exposed industry-wide misconduct as well accusations of profiteering that went all the way up from branch level to the boardroom.
At Sunday's meeting, officials also agreed on several sets of GST rules, including anti-profiteering guidelines intended to prevent traders exploiting the reform to ramp up prices.
Trump's clothing and accessory business has been operating with limitations to reduce potential violations of ethics laws and the perceptions she's profiteering off her White House role.
Mr. Batlle was the first Latin American leader to propose the partial legalization of drugs as a way to reduce trafficking, money laundering and profiteering by cartels.
How do we fight back against soulless corporate profiteering taking unfair advantage of our addiction to the old familiar software we depend on to run our lives?
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Saturday afternoon, demonstrators descended on the Metropolitan Museum's Sackler Wing to protest the namesake family's profiteering from the opioid crisis.
Private insurers add zero value but drive up costs through administrative waste and profiteering, and require hospitals and doctors to maintain complex billing and cost-tracking bureaucracies.
As for profiteering, an Autostrade spokesman said that the company had long abided by price caps and never raised tolls by more than 22018 percent a year.
Critics said the company was profiteering from the coronavirus pandemic by seeking tax and monopoly benefits under a program intended to encourage drug development for rare diseases.
If these profiteering elites would just let Trump be Trump and train his wrath on Mexicans instead of Iranians, a great presidency would get its groove back.
Unscrupulous companies are profiteering by buying massive numbers of empty set-top boxes, loading them with Kodi and illegal apps, then selling them at a high markup.
These so-called "commissions," which the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice has called "kickbacks" that have led to "gross profiteering," are very lucrative for law enforcement agencies.
Furie has so far refused to speak to the media, but his attorneys told BuzzFeed News that it was the profiteering that sent the cartoonist over the edge.
Sanders, holding up a vial of insulin outside a Canadian pharmacy, surrounded by Americans struggling to stay alive and pay the bills, decried greed, corruption, and corporate profiteering.
Just five days earlier, George, 55, teamed up with actor Don Cheadle to present a ground-breaking investigation done through his organization The Sentry on Sudanese war profiteering.
Modi's government said the move aimed to help poor patients and curb profiteering, but the U.S. government and lobby groups said it harmed innovation, profits and investment plans.
With a wartime economy of profiteering and smuggling in full swing and a paucity of information for refugees along the route, refugees are already being taken advantage of.
It's taking the enormous goodwill an audience has toward a character — goodwill built by powerful, thoughtful storytelling — and profiteering off of it in the name of mediocre violence.
And the internet pounced, adding them to its meme factory and its profiteering assembly line, even as the terms drew mocking comments and disgust from social media users.
In the first few minutes of the hearing, the House Oversight Committee's top Democrat took sharp aim at Shkreli, accusing him of profiteering at the expense of patients.
Nipsey was remembered as a great man, talented rapper and savvy businessman during his memorial -- so, you could argue he'd see the unabashed profiteering as a smart move.
Is he drawing attention away from them, so as to spare them some of the pressure that their talent (and, yes, his mugging and attempted profiteering) have brought?
In the firestorm of profiteering, norm violating, and potential criminality that characterizes the Trump administration, the private email accounts may be yet another story that is quickly forgotten.
A public option or other buy-in plans fail to address the underlying problem in the U.S. health care system: corporate greed and profiteering off of the sick.
The emergency declaration will allow for the activation of Puerto Rico's National Guard, while an order freezing prices, including fuel, which Garced signed to "prevent profiteering," Deibert reports.
It essentially suggests that one provision, to eliminate an Obamacare insurance regulation, would foster profiteering by insurance companies, by encouraging them to overcharge the government for certain plans.
Staggering prices lead some health professionals to conclude that profit making has at times turned into profiteering, at the expense of people who could not be more vulnerable.
"There will be no confusion about any of his financial holdings blurring the line between public service and personal profiteering," Bloomberg's adviser Timothy O'Brien told CNN last week.
The millions of us, nurses and doctors, who directly attend to patients want the best for them, and yet are prevented from caring by profiteering and gross inefficiency.
During a long, refreshingly substantive discussion of health-care policy, Mr Sanders held fast, blaming "the profiteering of the drug companies and insurance companies" for America's health-care woes.
An Egyptian court sentenced him in absentia to seven years in jail and fines totalling more than $4 billion in 2011 after convicting him of money laundering and profiteering.
The actor also spoke about battling the corruption in South Sudan through his organization The Sentry, which recently released the results of its groundbreaking investigation into Sudanese war profiteering.
The government is also considering setting the profit margins companies can charge on certain goods to prevent profiteering, a move some businesspeople see as dangerous interference in the market.
The plunge in the currency and soaring inflation have sparked sporadic demonstrations against profiteering and corruption, with many protesters chanting slogans against both the government and Supreme Leader Khamenei.
An Egyptian court sentenced him in absentia to seven years in jail and fines totaling more than $4 billion in 2011 after convicting him of money laundering and profiteering.
There is a massive group of Americans who's first commitment is to ending the disgusting bipartisan consensus of corruption, corporatism, and war profiteering that has so damaged our nation.
And he takes that information and he probably is profiteering off of it by sitting on boards and other places that he can utilize the information for material gain.
Or so thinks Dudley Smith, a sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department, currently working for Army intelligence and devising all kinds of war-profiteering hustles on the side.
We've grown used to naked profiteering off the presidency, an administration that calls for the firing of private citizens for political dissent and nuclear diplomacy conducted via Twitter taunts.
Watching and reading Rudy's ferocious lying for Mr. Trump, whether on Fox or CNN, forced me to re-examine his last 25 years, especially the profiteering from Sept. 11.
"Untitled" can be read as a comment on the exploitation artists suffer at the hands of profiteering collectors and opportunistic dealers, but ironically, Fraser was worried about the patron.
He linked this phantasmagoria to imposing moderate Islam on the Saudi people and ridding the country of many members of the wealthy elite, including princes and their profiteering clients.
The authorities will bring to justice "big crocodiles" — referring to Chinese tycoons — who are allegedly unfairly profiteering from the stock market, the chairman of the CSRC said earlier this month.
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. investigations have exposed bribery and fraud in Syrian aid programs, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said, raising concern about profiteering in the humanitarian sector.
Of course it's an awkward conversation topic for tech giants if vital institutions and societal norms are being undermined because of your cut-throat profiteering on the unregulated cyber seas.
"The elimination of the subsidy, although [it] will raise the cost for importers and the consumer, unifying the exchange rate would eliminate the space for corruption and profiteering," he said.
Ivanka has said that she finished the book before the November election and — after harsh criticism of her suspected profiteering motives — also promised not to promote it for ethics reasons.
Jašarević's commentary:Payment for cells, tissues and organs is likely to take unfair advantage of the poorest and most vulnerable groups, undermines altruistic donation, and leads to profiteering and human trafficking.
An Egyptian court had sentenced Salem in absentia to seven years in jail and fines totaling more than $4 billion in 2011 after convicting him of money laundering and profiteering.
Rather than concentrate on ISAs and profiteering from the dreams and aspirations of our citizens, we should double down on our national investment in higher education and an educated workforce.
With Mr. Pérez Molina and much of his administration out of office and facing criminal charges, and Mr. Lima's own prison profiteering publicly exposed, the prison boss became a liability.
Inspired by Bertolt Brecht, an ensemble of actors staged plays that broke the fourth wall, drawing the audience into tales that offered pointed critiques of war profiteering and other injustices.
But we cannot ignore the differences between a country that accepts limits on profiteering and one that celebrates any and all legal means of turning any "opportunity" into a buck.
The probable return of sanctions has triggered a rapid fall of Iran's currency, protests by bazaar traders usually loyal to the Islamist rulers, and a public outcry over alleged profiteering.
"There will be no confusion about any of his financial holdings blurring the line between public service and personal profiteering," Bloomberg campaign adviser Tim O'Brien told CNN's Christiane Amanpour Tuesday.
It's not clear how much these sales were driven by Bryant's fans buying memorial merch and how much was pure sneaker market profiteering, but Bryant merchandise was a hot seller.
Meanwhile, as the Guptas and Duduzane Zuma amass untold wealth in South Africa, and as allegations of their profiteering dominate the headlines, President Zuma's ruling A.N.C. has fractured and weakened.
Every episode explored in the report — which also detailed profiteering from the conflict by an American arms dealer, among others — highlighted international links to corruption and violence in South Sudan.
In rebuilding the country, she must overcome decades of mismanagement and profiteering by previous military governments that enriched the generals and their cronies and brought the economy to its knees.
It is clear that the ACA left a repulsive system of profiteering in place and that nothing adequate to the needs of ordinary Americans can be built upon this system.
The idea seemed to be that profiteering would work in conjunction with public welfare, but in reality the pursuit of profit overwhelmed the public policy objectives in utterly predictable ways.
A majority of those offers came from "real investors of a global caliber, not profiteering funds," it said in a reference to investors who seek high returns on risky bets.
He cited writings by the attorney general of Maryland who said it would not be hard to apply "profiteering laws" to products where there's nothing different but the huge price spike.
In Guatemala, the failure to effectively prosecute the war crimes of the civil war established the conditions in which impunity and rank profiteering could fester at the highest levels of government.
Nor can it justify the rampant profiteering by the wealthy in Rio, built on the backs of the city's poor and working classes, and diverting needed resources from basic civil services.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is investigating recent steel price hikes to determine whether some market participants are "illegitimately profiteering" from new tariffs, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday.
Weeks of public shaming of Big Pharma will come to a head on Thursday, where lawmakers are expected to focus on claims of profiteering by two pharmaceutical companies — Valeant and Turing.
His establishment as one of the city's biggest developers was hardly free of controversy: The Senate Banking Committee subpoenaed him in 1954 during an investigation into profiteering off federal housing loans.
The cost of living has soared in Iran in the past months and economic grievances have led to sporadic demonstrations against profiteering and corruption, with many protesters chanting anti-government slogans.
Courts set up in a campaign against economic offences handed down out death sentences to three defendants last week, following renewed U.S. sanctions and a public outcry against profiteering and corruption.
Medicare for all sends a clear message: The insurance industry and Big Pharma corporations have had a good run of profiteering off patients and families, but that is going to end.
Moreover, it's noted that most of those one-percenters earned their money from war profiteering -- selling weapons to the First Order and Rebels alike -- while subjugating and exploiting those around them.
Maisie's investigation takes on heft from its underlying theme of war profiteering, with greedy entrepreneurs like Mike Yates exposing their employees to life-threatening working conditions just to make a buck.
It's policy supposedly intended to cut down on profiteering by buying up tickets and reselling them for a markup, but which has the side benefit of all but eliminating ticket resales.
American health care spending is high because we're America, baby: We've got those big-ass trucks, Doritos Locos Tacos, and a healthcare system chock full of profiteering and blood-sucking greed.
This is not about bashing Big Pharma; it is about reclaiming the focus on health and the public interest in an industry that has for too long been driven by profiteering.
LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - British regulators will take action, including significant fines, against any companies found to be profiteering from the coronavirus emergency, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Wednesday.
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Saturday that 18 people had been arrested over alleged profiteering from foreign exchange dealings and the illegal importing of luxury cars, state television reported.
"There's a large number of adversaries really interested in profiteering or sabotaging organizations digitally," Bauer said, placing an emphasis on making corporate managements and boards more aware of the growing problem.
Ackman, who is sensitive to stereotypes about profiteering, says that Pershing Square has fewer than a dozen investments in its portfolio at a time, and sees them as long-term commitments.
Gwyneth Paltrow's venture, Goop—the epitome of pseudoscience profiteering—has been called out for flogging all kinds of questionable goods, including a jade vagina egg that some gynecologists warned could cause infections.
Also, we should get rid of local property taxes, ensure all schools are good, and recognize that the entire "wealth" generated through housing is just another word for profiteering off of racism.
The corporate dissatisfaction echoes arguments from Medicare for All backers, who blame health industry profiteering and waste in the existing system for warping market forces in a way that demands government intervention.
Moscow (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When social entrepreneur Daria Alexeyeva joined forces with a charity to open Moscow's first free laundry for the homeless, the last thing she expected were accusations of profiteering.
Aligning himself with FDR is a way to place him squarely within the Democratic tradition, considering that Roosevelt also railed against big banks, Wall Street profiteering, and the excesses of unchecked capitalism.
" Most of his criticism is directed at the U.S.'s private insurance market, saying it allows companies to limit benefits and raise out-of-pocket costs, which "increases the scope for profiteering.
Besides the currency fall, the expected return of sanctions has triggered street protests including by bazaar traders usually loyal to the Islamist rulers, and a public outcry over alleged profiteering and corruption.
With characters like profiteering Milo Minderbender, mediocre commander Major Major and parade loving Lieutenant Scheisskopf, "Catch-22" portrays a U.S. bomber squadron whose superiors are not just incompetent, but deaf to reason.
In its rollout, the government has introduced an anti-profiteering provisions that mandate companies that benefit from lower indirect taxes must pass on the benefits to consumers, in terms of lower prices.
Bozoma Saint John, Uber's newly minted chief brand officer, wants to take a brand with an ugly image — sexual harassment, stolen trade secrets, profiteering off protests — and make it something people love.
Platforms whose profiteering purpose is to track and target people at global scale — which function by leveraging an asymmetrical 'attention economy' — have zero incentive to change or have change imposed upon them.
Under "Medicare for All," because we end the profiteering of the insurance companies and the drug companies that made $22020 billion last year, we save many, many hundreds of billions of dollars.
Under "Medicare for All," because we end the profiteering of the insurance companies and the drug companies that made $261 billion last year, we save many, many hundreds of billions of dollars.
Instead of short-term profiteering and speculation, markets would refocus on long-term investments like brick and mortar companies: the kind that create good-paying jobs and careers, generating more investment overall.
Since it first announced in 2017, Sidewalk Labs has faced constant criticism, both from residents of Toronto and others who oppose urban profiteering by tech giants, about the opacity of its plans.
The film masterfully compares the unfair profiteering off of college athletes in the NCAA to the ill-gotten gains of African and Asian objects in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Though companies made money, there was little in the way of profiteering—bad memories from World War I, Wilson says, led to "robust profit controls," which were mostly accepted by America's industrial tycoons.
Khamenei called for strengthening the private sector while taking "decisive action" against economic crime such as money-laundering and smuggling of goods, blamed on those profiteering from the economic crisis in the country.
SINGAPORE, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Global airlines countered allegations of profiteering from low oil prices on Monday after renewed criticism that air fares have failed to come down in line with tumbling fuel costs.
Hartzer's resignation is the latest in a long line of executive departures from the financial sector, which has been under heavy scrutiny since a bruising public inquiry found rampant profiteering in the industry.
Patient advocacy organization Public Citizen said Azar has made it clear he is opposed to measures "to restrain prescription companies' profiteering and limit improper marketing" and that he favors weaker safety approval standards.
In the case of Syria, for example, Congress voted to impose the restrictions in 2016 after terrorist groups were found to be profiteering from the country's antiquities to pay for weapons and recruitment.
He is named in the Panama and Paradise Papers; he sponsored the Republican tax legislation and visited Puerto Rico to impose austerity and award government contracts to the profiteering electricians of Whitefish, Mont.
To the consternation of the Ukrainian leader, though, the conflict with pro-Russian separatists is slowly mutating in the public mind from a heroic struggle into yet another sinkhole of profiteering and graft.
Ultimately, her goal is system change; she still considers herself an activist, and she wants to shift American medicine away from profiteering and toward the recognition that health care is a human right.
The House Oversight Committee will hold its first hearing on drug pricing on Thursday morning, focusing on Shkreli's former company Turing Pharmaceuticals, as well as another company facing claims of profiteering, Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Calls for greater law enforcement efforts to fight antiquities trafficking have been growing ever since ISIS' profiteering from the trade in looted antiquities became public knowledge in 2014.
Likewise, he wants to find a cheaper and more effective global system for regulating pharmaceutical company profiteering: "Drugs are intellectual property goods, meaning the cost is based on making the first one," he explained.
Museums and cultural spaces, their collections, exhibitions and programs, should not be aligned with or funded by investments in mass incarceration, war profiteering, ecological catastrophe, debt ownership, devastation, oppression and the pain of others.
Since it first announced its plan in 2017, Sidewalk Labs has faced constant criticism, both from residents of Toronto and others who oppose urban profiteering by tech giants, about the opacity of its plans.
Also taking the markets higher was Cabinet approval for the formation of a National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA) under GST after it reduced the rates of a large number of goods of mass consumption.
The endeavor backfired spectacularly: partly because no one needed a template in the first place, but mostly because people felt that the Fine Bros were profiteering and aiming to exploit the creativity of others.
The result is an unsavory mix of charity work, profiteering, and pay-to-play politics that potentially reaches the highest levels of US foreign policy and screams for IRS and Department of Justice reviews.
Last year, Goldman paid $5 billion to settle allegations by the Department of Justice that it defrauded investors and the public when it was profiteering before and during the financial meltdown of 2008-2009.
That she has received so much more public scrutiny than William Singer, the profiteering architect of the scheme to channel mediocre rich children to top colleges, suggests how much we loathe the blithely entitled.
We get all kind of worried about: How can Congress or state legislatures stop profiteering on masks, how can they allocate scarce respirator resources, how can they get money to workers who can't work?
The case highlights the immense scrutiny Australia's big banks have come under over the past few years for various misdeeds, including for widespread profiteering exposed by a public inquiry into the sector last year.
All of this data, of course, does not necessarily cover various other ways ISPs can screw over their customers, like throttling internet access for heavy users or overselling capacity out of ignorance or deliberate profiteering.
In back-to-back tweets posted last Thursday, Eric Trump bashed Hunter Biden for his alleged profiteering from corruption, but then in his very next post bragged about a new Trump Organization development in Scotland.
"It's a matter of grave concern that some seed companies, while suppressing their real intent of profiteering, are attempting to illegally incorporate unauthorized and unapproved herbicide-tolerant technologies into their seeds," a Monsanto spokesman said.
There's a case for applying laws against profiteering to the drug industry, when outrageous price hikes occur in little-changed, life-saving legacy treatments, said a former deputy commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration.
It's the most recent development in a long battle waged by prison advocates, inmates, and their loved ones against what they contend is profiteering on the part of phone companies that contract with private prisons.
The result was nearly a decade of profiteering from cash investors who bought distressed properties for pennies on the dollar, then rented them at above-market rates to folks who couldn't qualify for a mortgage.
The AUSTRAC lawsuit comes as Australia's retail banking system seeks to rebuild its reputation after a stinging a public inquiry found it had a culture of widespread profiteering, customer fee-gouging and slipshod regulatory oversight.
And, they deserve an administration working on their behalf, rather than rhetorically masking profiteering by multinational corporations like NAI that seek to violate their own country's labor rights by shopping for the lowest labor standards.
What Congo needs is more accountability — to stem the profiteering of multinational mining companies, to make the country's security forces care more about the safety of citizens and to restore the dignity of the population.
His departure demonstrates how one of Australia's biggest banks is taking a zero-tolerance approach to compliance after a Royal Commission inquiry exposed industry-wide misconduct and brought accusations of profiteering from branch to boardroom.
We'd appreciate the Westchester GOP focusing on the important work of telling lies about their opponents and suppressing librul votes, which is the only way they can win in NY. Meanwhile, we'll continue our mission of traveling around the country in our Missile Truck and giving the "Golden Richard Award for War Profiteering" to our fine American companies like General Dynamic, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon (only #2 in war profiteering according to Business Insider, but we know they'll be #1 next year if they try harder).
In June, the U.S. Commerce Department said it was investigating recent steel price hikes to determine whether some market participants were "illegitimately profiteering" from 25 percent tariffs introduced by President Donald Trump's administration on steel imports.
Even if Patreon's headquarters literally catching fire last night might read as a good omen for competition, it's easy to imagine these alternative crowdfunding sites floundering as vehicles for a movement which vehemently discourages individual profiteering.
Source: Federal Trade Commission BuzzFeed News also identified 63 lawsuits between 2003 and 230 involving businesses, lawyers, religious figures, and other individuals who allegedly defrauded their clients and used the promise of legal status for profiteering.
Sure, there was some commentary about war profiteering early on in the Iron Man films, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier glanced upon the idea of selling out privacy and freedom in the name of security.
The likely return of U.S. economic sanctions has triggered a rapid fall of Iran's currency and protests by bazaar traders usually loyal to the Islamist rulers, and a public outcry over alleged price gouging and profiteering.
Materialism and profiteering had eaten away any nobility the N.F.L. game once possessed, leaving in its place a violent, vainglorious, $203-billion-a-year entertainment spectacle staged by helmeted mercenaries for the enrichment of grasping billionaires.
Read more: How American culture and a sense of 'aggrieved entitlement' in males can lead to mass shootersIn the end, philanthropy serves as a kind of respectable Dr. Jekyll to a corporation's profiteering Mr. Hyde personality.
But the conveniently-timed trades -- which collectively saved millions of dollars in losses for senators -- have raised the public specter of wrongdoing and profiteering as the nation grapples with a massive public health and economic crisis.
The M.T.A., by contrast, is largely cut out of the land profiteering that it enables: Of the authority's roughly $16 billion budget in 2017, about $460 million came from a tax on residential real estate transactions.
In an attempt to prevent profiteering from the coronavirus, trade minister Ebrahim Patel said sellers would not be allowed to raise prices by more than increases in the cost of the inputs used to make them.
Everyone with any sense knew he would be, although the scale of his personal profiteering, the strong likelihood that his family's financial interests have distorted U.S. foreign and national security policy, have startled even the cynics.
Ever since the 1980s, reclusive North Korea has been known to train cadres of digital soldiers to engage in electronic warfare and profiteering exploits against its perceived enemies, most notably South Korea and the United States.
Bryan favored the government ownership of railroads and telephone companies, municipal ownership of utilities, the dismantling of "corporate trusts," a federal law preventing "profiteering," and a state system of old age pensions (later called Social Security).
"Instead of helping to dismantle the entanglement of profiteering, government interests, and the system of human caging, Harvard makes profit off of it," the lawsuit, filed in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County, states.
Dr. Ayyadurai went on to receive four degrees from MIT including a Ph.D.In the past, Ayyadurai has written that those who dispute his account are motivated by racism and war profiteering (Tomlinson worked for defense contractor Raytheon).
To my colleagues in academic medicine, public health, and policy, I have to ask: Are we serious about dismantling the "obnoxious negative peace" of America's current health care system, where profiteering is comfortable and patients suffer needlessly?
Corporate executives say they will finally be able to make investment decisions based on a transparent, predictable currency market run by banks, rather than an opaque black market in dollars that swung wildly amid profiteering and speculation.
Members of Congress do not deal with proprietary information held by company executives and, even with the broader definitions applied by the courts, it would be very difficult to use the legal language to fit legislative profiteering.
The last two days saw sentiments improving after the Cabinet approved key reforms such as the formation of a Goods and Services Tax (GST) national anti-profiteering authority and hiking the carpet area cap for housing interest subvention.
The modest cuts show the Australian banking industry is prepared to withstand some public backlash even after a stinging year-long inquiry led to dozens of recommendations of reforms meant to curb what the inquiry called rampant profiteering.
In the letter to Barr, he said individuals and organizations that are engaging in profiteering from its products amid the coronavirus pandemic are engaging in "unethical actions" and that 3M would work with authorities to hold them accountable.
Demonstrators accused the company of war profiteering through its investments in weapons manufacturers such as Boeing, Raytheon, and General Dynamics; they also noted that BlackRock is the second-largest shareholder of private prisons including Geo Group and CoreCivic.
While most technology companies are building up a surveillance state to serve political powers and private profiteering, Uptrust is using some of those same tools to make it easier to move people out of the criminal justice system.
Governments may also need to tackle price inflation and profiteering from in-demand medicines and equipment like face masks, as well as ensure equal access to any treatments or vaccines that may be developed in future, he added.
What remains hotly contested is whether that conduct represented a brazen abuse of power, as Democrats maintain; or a routine effort to combat corruption — and protect U.S. taxpayer dollars — in a country infamous for profiteering, as Republicans contend.ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.
For Mr. Trump, Ms. Meyer's performance violated two major rules: Politically, it undercut his immigration crackdown, and in a personal sense, it smacked of profiteering off Mr. Trump — one of the sins that warrants expulsion from his orbit.
FINANCE SECTOR CASUALTIES PILE ON Hartzer's resignation is the latest in a long line of executive departures from a financial sector that has been under heavy scrutiny since a bruising public inquiry found rampant profiteering in the industry.
But the Philippines has the further problem of entrenched systemic corruption which has resulted in government and law enforcement officials all over the country facilitating and profiteering off the very drug trade which is destroying their countrymen and women.
It has also set off concerns about diluting the power of one of Mr. Trump's most potent political assets, while raising questions about whether his team is facilitating the sort of political profiteering that he disparaged during his campaign.
Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and other online retailers have also sought to limit price gouging and attempts at profiteering from people's fears, while Apple and Google have banned all coronavirus-related apps not from official sources from their app stores.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Special courts set up in a drive against financial crime have sentenced three people to death in Iran, state television reported on Sunday, as the country faces renewed U.S. sanctions and a public outcry against profiteering and corruption.
Following the devaluation, corporate executives said they would now be able to make investment decisions based on a transparent, predictable currency market run by banks, rather than an opaque black market in dollars that swung wildly amid profiteering and speculation.
"The current debate over Medicare for All really has nothing to do with healthcare; it has everything to do with greed and profiteering," Sanders said at a Capitol Hill event to roll out the proposal, where he was joined by Gillibrand.
Mirando sponsors a "contest" that lets rural farmers raise their own specimens—like the titular Okja—softening its public image in the process, and tries to rope them into reality TV shorts and social media posts to humanize its profiteering.
Recognizing the threat already unfolding in Puerto Rico, the City of New York recently shipped one million free condoms to San Juan, where the local government put a freeze on condom prices to combat panic-driven cost escalation and profiteering.
"India, it has been an important market for us, but again there is this opportunity cost of the deals that we are not able to do that don't get discussed," Trump Jr. said, shrugging off criticism about profiteering from the president.
"This gross profiteering explains why less than half of people living with HIV in the U.S. are virally suppressed, one of the lowest rates among the world's high-income countries," Brenda Goodrow, one of the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
Separately, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said special prosecutors would swiftly deal with economic crime, including profiteering from foreign exchange and gold dealings, illegal imports of luxury cars and price gouging on imported goods such as mobile phones, state media said.
In recent months, Valeant has come to be seen as an egregious example of profiteering in the drug industry: Its executives have been called to testify before Congress, and Hillary Clinton has mentioned Valeant by name in a campaign ad.
Express Scripts Inc has filed a lawsuit accusing drug company Kaleo Inc of profiteering from the national opioid epidemic by hiking the price of an overdose treatment by 550 percent while reneging on $14.5 million in contractual rebates and fees.
To many conservatives, the uranium story is particularly emblematic of the self-interested and profiteering approach they believe the Clintons have always brought to politics — a narrative they fed for years when Bill Clinton was president, and then later during Mrs.
Views on these clinics run the gamut from concerns about profiteering (Louise's treatments cost $500 out-of-pocket; most insurance companies don't cover ketamine when it is prescribed off-label) to acknowledgment that they may be helping desperately ill patients.
He has also drawn criticism for profiteering: A 2011 investigation by The Tennessean newspaper found that since 1998, the two charities had paid more than $33 million to members of Mr. Sekulow's family and businesses they owned or partly owned.
"In allowing these products to secure a foothold on your marketplace, you are not only supporting these companies in their endeavor to increase youth demand and access, but also assisting profiteering counterfeiters seeking to cause teens further harm," the senators wrote.
"Right now, we're focused on ending these outrageous surprise billing practices that these firms are profiteering off of, but I am certainly open to looking into their practices in other parts of our health care system in the future," Pallone said.
"Under Medicare-for-all, that family will be paying $853,285 a year, because we're eliminating the profiteering of the drug companies and the insurance companies and ending this byzantine and complex administration of thousands of separate health care plans," he said.
India's National Anti-Profiteering Authority - a quasi-judicial body set up following the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax in 2017, found P&G had not reduced prices on many products after a tax cut on those items, the official said.
"While there are policy issues on which we may always disagree, we do agree on the need to throw the entertainment community's collective influence behind legislation protecting songwriters, musicians, and artists from censorship, copyright theft, and profiteering," Blackburn continued in her statement.
More than ever before, it's become clear that the threat of hacking goes beyond nuisance vandalism, criminal profiteering, and even espionage to include the sort of physical-world disruption that was once possible to accomplish only with military attacks and terroristic sabotage.
The case of Argosy University, a for-profit-turned-nonprofit chain of colleges—with branches in San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, Nashville, Inland Empire, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Sarasota, and Schaumburg, Illinois—shows how profiteering schools are just bad for their students.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Fast-track courts set up in Iran to fight economic crime have jailed 30 men for up to 20 years each, the judiciary said on Sunday, as the country faces renewed U.S. sanctions and a public outcry against profiteering and corruption.
That same month, we also held a No Pants No Problem party organized by Canadian artist and activist Jessica Whitbread, whose handmade banners emblazoned with political slogans like "HIV Is Not A Crime, AIDS Profiteering Is" was a central part of our exhibition.
"This is not a case of being willfully blind or being opportunistic or profiteering," said Hoefflinger, who spent seven years at Facebook as director of global business marketing, and has worked closely with both Zuckerberg and Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg.
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A dozen delivery and supply companies and affiliates based in Turkey are banned from doing business with the U.S. government due to their roles in profiteering from humanitarian aid intended for Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG, March 19 (Reuters) - South Africa's trade minister said on Thursday that goods sellers would not be allowed to raise prices by more than increases in the cost of inputs used to make them, in measures aiming to prevent profiteering from the coronavirus.
The big picture: Sanders' sweeping plan, titled "Justice and Safety for All," promises to transform the criminal justice system in the U.S. by ending "profiteering" by corporations, reforming police and prison systems, investing in communities, and ending mass incarceration, among many other things.
Still, there is plenty of reason to believe that Gottlieb could serve as a friendly face for a populist policy on drugs that cracks down both on senseless regulation and runaway pharma profiteering, which comes at the expense of taxpayers and competitors.
"Instead of fighting for hard-working families abused by our economy, as he promised in the campaign, the president and his billionaire Cabinet have abandoned Main Street to enable Wall Street's corrosive profiteering of the banks on the back of hard-working Americans," Pelosi said.
Instead, it is a sign that powerful people are shaken by the profound contradiction that is finally coming to a head between the purported values of contemporary art and the violent profiteering that subtends most of the major institutions of the art system. 4.
Was president Obama's blackness in the context of the violence perpetuated at home and abroad under his regime any more important than Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren's womanhood would be if, once in power, they ignored the blights of prison slave labor and war profiteering?
As one Reddit post explains, in the books: They seize or turn away slave ships from their ports, abolished slavery in Pentos as part of a peace treaty after winning a war ...  All that being said, could/would the Iron Bank engage in slavery profiteering?
Lastly, the message is spot on and central to this action: it is immoral to market medicines in ways that are dangerous and for profiteering, that Harvard and other wealthy institutions are complicit by accepting this money from the Sacklers, and that we will hold them accountable.
Yet much about what Modi's electoral victory means, for India and the world, can be inferred from this piece of dross: the peddling of falsehoods as truth, the unabashed celebration of wealth and profiteering, the idea that Modi's enriched Indian fanboys now command respect from the west.
"As current and former players have stood up and challenged the NCAA's unjust rules, the people who are profiteering from it are deciding to take action," says Ramogi Huma, a former UCLA linebacker and longtime athlete's rights activist who was instrumental in the Northwestern unionization effort.
There's a good case that Trump's own profiteering is doing huge damage, but the small ways in which his officials have been ripping off taxpayers are trivial compared with the big things they're doing to make America worse: undermining health care, environmental protection, financial regulation, and more.
"Hamilton," the hit musical that has struggled to combat profiteering by scalpers, is trying a new tack with its next block of Broadway tickets: a technology from Ticketmaster that scrutinizes the purchase histories of potential ticket buyers in an effort to eliminate bots and high-volume resellers.
Let's remember another great moment from Roosevelt, who said this to a cheering crowd at Madison Square Garden days before the 85033 presidential election: We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
"Due to the possibility of U.S. sanctions against Iran, the committee will study the competence of buyers and how to obtain proceeds from the sale of oil, safe sale alternatives which are consistent with international law and do not lead to corruption and profiteering," Hassanvand said.
These prisons make up a small minority of the Bureau of Prisons facilities (around a dozen of 2100-plus federal prisons), but this move has drawn criticism from liberals and criminal justice reformers who view private prisons as a hotbed for abuse in the name of profiteering.
" Moore goes on to skewer Trump's greedy profiteering off the family-destroying vice of gambling, his "Nietzschean, social-Darwinist" approach to his (thin) pro-lifery, and his narcissistic lust for power, of which Moore claims: "Social and religious conservatives have always seen this tendency as decadent and deviant.
More questions are being raised about a nonprofit group at the center of the national debate about shelters for migrant children, including charges that the organization and individual family members who run it are profiteering from a crisis that&aposs costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
I know we're in the age of expanded cinematic universes and everything, but I think the only way the standalone Star Wars movie concept works in the first place is if the films do not feel like cheap profiteering, and casting a younger Han Solo starts toeing the line.
The final hour or so of the film is filled with truly intense and shocking moments — all while Johnson also finds time to examine more complex things that Star Wars has never dealt with before, like celebrity, war profiteering, and the importance of letting go of the past.
Another key piece of context: The medical device industry is the site of some of the biggest profiteering markups in the industry, and the Food and Drug Administration's streamlined process for allowing the sale of medical devices lets dodgy devices get to market without clinical trials or testing.
India's National Anti-Profiteering Authority, a quasi-judicial body set up following the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax in 2017, found P&G had not reduced its prices on many products after a cut in tax rates on those items, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Cyber espionage groups APT28 and Sandworm are the most active of the Russian-backed groups, usually exploiting simple online tools and tactics, like phishing campaigns and "most likely to blur the line between clearly state-sponsored attacks and the activities of online activists and profiteering cyber criminals," the report says.
Mr. Seller said that he believed he has a fiduciary responsibility to his investors to try to stem the profiteering by resellers, and to acknowledge that the market has made clear that tickets to the show are worth vastly more than the prices at which the producers have been selling them.
Global exposure, international investment and voracious profiteering had come to the game, and with Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and the rest of his teammates far less suited to the limelight, Beckham was now the most famous player, at the most venerated club, in the most marketised league in the world.
People then objected to several aspects of the proposal, which have not abated: the social injustice issues exasperated by labor practices at Guggenheim's Abu Dhabi franchise site, the selling of status (as opposed to critical thinking), and ultimately to the idea of exploiting citizens to construct a museum for private profiteering.
This was particularly true in African nations, where the combination of poverty, opportunism, and cultural misunderstanding of the meaning of adoption—often construed as temporary guardianship rather than permanent relinquishment of a child—led to children repeatedly being offered, or in some cases taken, for adoption based on mistaken beliefs or outright profiteering.
"This is an especially gratifying moment for the tens of thousands of nurses across the US who have dedicated years of effort to transform our health care system from an profiteering industry based on greed and suffering to patient need and healing," National Nurses United Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro said in a statement.
I only wonder this: the episode treats the "museum" (run by Rolo Haynes, who is played by Douglas Hodge) as essentially a stand in for the larger systemic mechanisms for taking pleasure in the destruction of black men, and by extension all black people, and in the financial profiteering from such entertainment.
Like the previous two federal lawsuits, this one, filed in federal court in Washington, accuses Mr. Trump of illegally profiteering from his businesses in a variety of ways, including collecting payments from foreign diplomats who stay in his hotels and accepting trademark approvals from foreign governments for his company's goods and services.
For her ability to face difficult facts and unplug herself from the matrix of signaled complacency, Greta Thunberg deserves infinite respect, but let's stan for her in a way that does her justice: by advocating for policy changes that prioritize a reduction of carbon dioxide production, and hold big corporations accountable for the impact of their profiteering on the health of the planet.
It would give incarcerated people the right to vote, in addition to overhauling criminal laws and statutes for undocumented immigrants and migrant families in the U.S. The sweeping proposal also targets "eliminating wealth-based discrimination and corporate profiteering" by banning private companies from profiting off of jails, prisons and immigration detention facilities, alongside other reforms like abolishing cash bails for incarcerated people.
Selling tickets to an event loosely inspired by a meme suggested a shift from the ironic and self-effacing to the self-aggrandizing and profiteering — Alienstock was to be a weekend-long experience in the middle of nowhere, with parking and camping spaces costing between $60 and $140, all in order to see unnamed EDM acts and ... get stoked about aliens?
In Puerto Rico's case, it's patently obvious that the fate of Puerto Rico's people would be in the hands of a majority of Republican politicians who hate the idea of a minimum wage, have opposed any expansion of overtime guarantees (similar to the ones covering federal employees recently announced by the Obama administration) and are quite comfortable defending profiteering by Wall Street hedge funds.
Even though Trudeau still hasn't said exactly what his plan to "legalize, regulate and restrict" will look like, many dispensary owners and activists fired back at the licensed producers, charging them with dismissing patients who want to buy and consume their cannabis on their own terms, and profiteering off the backs of those who fought Health Canada to make the substance accessible in the first place.
It was easy to apply this antagonistic "murder the government" [citation: Mr. Mike Burkett, 1997, all rights reserved] attitude during the Bush years, which employed an administration that resembled a veritable cast of Batman villains, from Dick Cheney as the war profiteering Penguin to the Joker himself, George W. Bush, a dimwitted country club daddy's boy who fell assbackwards into the rank of world's most powerful patsy.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Six artists  — Laura Ortman, Thirza Cuthand, Brendan Fernandes, Marcus Fischer, Nibia Pastrana Santiago, and Maia Ruth Lee — have publicly announced their intention to stay put in the 2019 Whitney Biennial following a wave of withdrawals from eight of 75 artists included in the exhibition as a protest statement against Warren Kanders,  a vice chairman of the Whitney Museum accused of war profiteering.
Ivanka's dealings Eric's claim that the Trump children "got out" of international business could potentially apply to Ivanka, who shut down her namesake fashion company in 2018, motivated in part by her awareness that to continue could be seen as a violation of ethics laws and as if she was profiteering off of not only her father's role as President but also her influence as senior adviser to the president.
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's initial comments on the student loan problem, where he decried the obscene profiteering by the Department of Education, were encouraging, but his student loan plan was a cowardly refinement on Obama's "Pay As You Earn" forgiveness plan.
Given that the Trump brand rests on ostentatious displays of wealth and that the most egregious examples of profiteering and corruption arguably involve the Trump family, including the President, Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Jared KushnerJared Corey KushnerTop immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia MORE, perhaps Haley's dismissive treatment of the damning U.N. report is not surprising.
"This may not technically be illegal, but it's an atrocious abuse of power to line the president's pockets, and it's a continuation of two years of profiteering by President Trump," said Walter ShaubWalter Michael ShaubEx-ethics chief rips Trump July 4 event as 'taxpayer-funded campaign ad' Here are the top paid White House staffers The Hill's Morning Report - Trump touts handshake with Kim, tariff freeze with Xi MORE, a former director of the Office of Government Ethics who resigned in July 2017.
It was both a desperate existential struggle and an aggressive imperial expansion; a brutal war for racial extermination and an idealistic struggle for universal human rights; a cynical and pragmatic slog to get the job done and a revival of America's Protestant mission in the wilderness; a war fought by a Jim Crow military that also saw real gains in racial equality; a time of collective sacrifice and unprecedented national unity that was also characterized by scandalous profiteering, bitter racial strife, and incessant political infighting.
It seemed more than a little disingenuous when Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossEx-counterintelligence official warns Trump administration not to be shortsighted on Huawei The Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Hillicon Valley: Trump alleges Google manipulated voters against him | Hillary Clinton fires back | Twitter, Facebook take down misinformation targeting Hong Kong protests | Trump delays penalty on Huawei | Tech giants slam French digital tax at hearing MORE talked about domestic steel firms engaged in "illegal profiteering" from steel tariffs — it was a textbook example of how tariffs raise domestic prices!

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