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  • By war's end, the Coalwood mine was a lucrative little operation, envied across the county.   (source)
  • Was there anything else to understand except what was obvious to all the world—a heartless woman jilts a man when a more lucrative chance turns up.   (source)
  • Compared to the Paradice Project, even the BlyssPluss Pill was a crude tool, although it would be a lucrative interim solution.†   (source)
  • Moushumi wonders how long she will live her life with the trappings of studenthood in spite of the fact that she is a married woman, that she's as far along in her studies as she is, that Nikhil has a respectable if not terribly lucrative job.†   (source)
  • She'd had no qualms dismissing her when she found a lucrative means to do it, a way that could keep her free of guilt because, after all, they needed to find an antidote.†   (source)
  • She's got a very lucrative offer to fly for Mr. McLean.†   (source)
  • Things had gone pretty well for a few centuries, and he'd built up quite a lucrative above-ground memorabilia business.†   (source)
  • It has been lucrative work, augmented by a group that for years has been in constant need of his services: U.S.-funded Nicaraguan contras across the border.†   (source)
  • It was true, as Lemming put it, that "there are some colleges that would take Charles Manson if he could run a four-four forty and get his work release:' Their existence didn't prevent the premature end of a shocking number of potentially lucrative careers.†   (source)
  • The Beach Boys made a very lucrative career out of happy-summer-land with all those surfing and cruising songs.†   (source)
  • The Coca-Cola deal that DD Marketing negotiated for Colorado Springs School District 11 was not as lucrative as it first seemed.†   (source)
  • With little productive to do, drug selling becomes a lucrative means of survival.†   (source)
  • And then for several years as a night clerk in a bullet-proof cabin at a gas station outside Washington, where drunks occasionally vomited into the till, and pimps propositioned her with more lucrative job offers.†   (source)
  • I relate this because some ten years after the conflict, that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed, my father was called into Mr John Silvers' study to be told that this very same personage - I will call him simply 'the General' - was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party, during which my father's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction.†   (source)
  • People from the rural South migrated toward what they considered lucrative factory jobs in the North.†   (source)
  • All those lucrative stud fees flashed before my eyes.†   (source)
  • The division of the island between France and Spain, which left the French in possession of the island's western third, where they created an immensely lucrative and gruesome slave colony—a third of every new shipment of West African slaves died within three years.†   (source)
  • Providing security was a lucrative business.†   (source)
  • We still had assets, accumulated during the lucrative years of Moody's practice.†   (source)
  • They each hated their jobs—which did not help their relationship with one another—but Ida was the most popular waitress her boss had, which gave her a certain leeway, and Vivaldo could no longer accept those more demanding and more lucrative jobs which offered him a future he did not want.†   (source)
  • And then Mom made the mistake of turning on the radio as a weather forecaster announced we could expect snow, and enough of it for the ski resorts to enjoy a lucrative Thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • One general theory for the origin of AIDS goes that, during the late nineteen-sixties, a new and lucrative business grew up in Africa, the export of primates to industrialized countries for use in medical research.†   (source)
  • The IBM account, landed with such effort, was still one of Norah's most lucrative ones, so she had gone to the annual picnic despite her headache and the distant growl of thunder.†   (source)
  • For many of them, the job of gang boss—highly visible and highly lucrative—was easily the best job they thought they had access to.†   (source)
  • In that hidden village there was a native-born tobacco planter who had lived there for some time, Don Jose Arcadio Buendia, with whom Ursula's great-great--grandfather established a partnership that was so lucrative that within a few years they made a fortune.†   (source)
  • Horse racing was one of the most lucrative sports in America at that time, and even undistinguished horses often earned two to three thousand dollars a year.†   (source)
  • Gul told him he was from Waziristan and had a lucrative career collecting rare butterflies all over Central Asia and supplying them to European museums.†   (source)
  • His Ph.D. would open up new possibilities: he could find lucrative work as an educational consultant, land a prestigious professorship, or publish books.†   (source)
  • Milo, of course, had been the big feather in his cap, although having his group bombed by Milo's planes had probably been a terrible black eye for him, even though Milo had ultimately stilled all protest by disclosing the huge net profit the syndicate had realized on the deal with the enemy and convincing everyone that bombing his own men and planes had therefore really been a commendable and very lucrative blow on the side of private enterprise.†   (source)
  • That lucrative khat trade route was responsible for the birth of Ethiopian Airlines.†   (source)
  • So killing Downworlders is a lucrative business?†   (source)
  • As Jeremy's agent, Nate was forever promoting events that "could be important for Jeremy's career," for the simple reason that freelancing wasn't all that lucrative.†   (source)
  • And surprisingly lucrative.†   (source)
  • Lucrative work.†   (source)
  • Fresh from pontificating about hurricane floods, media climatologists were having their most lucrative Christmas in years.†   (source)
  • He had been apprenticed very young, at his own request, to a scholar in the city, and when his scholarly training had not at first proven lucrative enough to support him, he had taken to soldiering.†   (source)
  • Even when you break in, it isn't particularly lucrative unless you write best-sellers.†   (source)
  • Cajun culture seems alive and well—and lucrative—in Mamou, Louisiana.†   (source)
  • No. Fortier had first recruited Svensson fifteen years ago to conduct a much simpler operation: untraceable arms deals with several interested nations, which involved biological weapons research in exchange for lucrative con-tracts.†   (source)
  • But he retired ten years ago for the more lucrative and less backbreaking trade of slave broker.†   (source)
  • "Boring but lucrative," their mom said.†   (source)
  • Delta had made a lucrative agreement with the Americans.†   (source)
  • Federal offices are distinguished and lucrative.†   (source)
  • Many of Termalaine's fishermen, fearing the economic advantage that Targos would gain over them, had refused to give up the most lucrative month of the fishing season.†   (source)
  • We started a family business, Duck Commander, which turned into a pretty lucrative enterprise with a lot of elbow grease, teamwork, and God's blessings.†   (source)
  • Goode continued, "In order to fully protect Miss Cardinal's rights in this matter, we are seeking to haveher declared mentally unfit, and to have a guardian appointed so that an orderly disposition of her affairs may be conducted, including this very lucrative offer from Southern Valley.†   (source)
  • During the Second Intifada he had overseen the payment of lucrative death benefits to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.†   (source)
  • Our crawfish business ended up being pretty lucrative.†   (source)
  • Our previous arrangements have been most lucrative.†   (source)
  • But the celler of Chooka Frood's house was the phenomenon that had inspired her most lucrative industry.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to get on her bad side early on in this lucrative job so I smiled as I tried to untangle her arms.   (source)
  • Tonight, a high-tech, high-profile arrest of an American would go a long way to silence Fache's critics, helping him secure the job a few more years until he could retire with the lucrative pension.   (source)
  • He never appreciated being awoken early on a Saturday morning, but it was particularly distasteful that he had been called in to oversee the arrest of one of his most lucrative clients.   (source)
  • Accepting hundreds of lucrative Vatican commissions, Da Vinci painted Christian themes not as an expression of his own beliefs but rather as a commercial venture—a means of funding a lavish lifestyle.   (source)
  • The truck stops leading into L.A. were particularly lucrative.†   (source)
  • They now own some of the most lucrative franchises.†   (source)
  • His dealings with Salander were becoming quite lucrative, even if still on a modest scale.†   (source)
  • Despite the losses of the voyage, this would be his most lucrative venture yet.†   (source)
  • Another lucrative agreement, a different kind than before, perhaps.†   (source)
  • Despite his concerted efforts, he was unable to land a lucrative commercial sponsorship of the sort enjoyed by some of his more famous peers.†   (source)
  • It was troublesome and less lucrative.†   (source)
  • He graduated from medical school, got married and had two children, settled comfortably into a lucrative Dallas practice.†   (source)
  • It was not a lucrative affair, but the magazine broke even, and the circulation and advertising revenue had increased gradually but steadily.†   (source)
  • The alliance was undermined by one of the big processors, which cut lucrative deals with a core group of potato farmers.†   (source)
  • They have successfully pitted one economically depressed region against another, using the threat of plant closures and the promise of future investment to obtain lucrative government subsidies.†   (source)
  • In the social hierarchy of California's farmers, orange growers stood at the very top; their homes were set amid fragrant evergreen trees that produced a lucrative income.†   (source)
  • When he got back to the United States, he thought of trying to raise enough cash to free all the patients, then realized this would only make detentions more lucrative for hospital administrations.†   (source)
  • ] And it's lucrative.†   (source)
  • I'm a bright but unseen, unknown bureaucrat who's been passed over because I lack those qualities that could elevate me, lead me to a degree of prominence and to lucrative jobs in the private sector.†   (source)
  • The president of Congress, John Hancock, had only in recent years freed the last of the slaves who were part of his lavish Boston household, and it was well known, as Jefferson said, that New Englanders had been "considerable carriers" in the lucrative slave trade.†   (source)
  • The fishing business became somewhat lucrative—we were at least making enough money to pay the mortgage and utilities and take care of the rest of our needs—but I still didn't believe it was my, ahem, calling in life.†   (source)
  • Both understood that the office, lucrative in itself, was, in Adams's words, a "sure introduction to the most profitable business in the province.†   (source)
  • Fareed Barakat was stretched out on one of the leather seats, his necktie loosened, looking like a busy executive at the end of a long but lucrative day.†   (source)
  • On one occasion, after he failed to appear for several potentially lucrative races, his agent found him starring in a bull-riding exhibition.†   (source)
  • A temporary time in office would discourage qualified people from quitting a lucrative practice to accept a seat on the bench.†   (source)
  • After specializing in gastroenterology, he'd joined a lucrative practice in Westchester but wasn't happy and had returned to the salaried staff of Our Lady.†   (source)
  • Anesthesiology is one of the most lucrative of all medical specialties, and yet Moody rarely had to perform actual labor.†   (source)
  • Convinced he had accomplished all he could, the brilliant, headstrong Secretary of the Treasury returned to his lucrative New York law practice.†   (source)
  • His father was heir to the Vanderbilt railroad and oceanic shipping fortune; his mother's father had invented the fantastically lucrative Bromo-Seltzer.†   (source)
  • There I was, the son who went to the States for higher studies, who became a practitioner of the artful, lavish, disposable-everything, lucrative, and incredibly effective American brand of medicine, with no prices on the menu, so different in style and substance from what they did at Missing; only now it must have appeared to them as if the American medicine had turned on me, like the tiger turning on its trainer, so that I lay moored to a blue-gray ventilator, chained to monitors on…†   (source)
  • But the African slave trade was extremely lucrative for the Spanish government and its subjects, and the Spanish prince stated he would not sign the treaty unless his government received payment for "perceived losses."†   (source)
  • Gladys Phipps was convinced that even if Fitzsimmons could make a silk purse out of this sow's ear, the horse was still much too small to make it in the more lucrative "handicap" division, in which he would have to carry heavier weights.†   (source)
  • WHATEVER ADAMS'S state of mind, he was leaving his successor a nation "with its coffers full," as he wrote, and with "fair prospects of peace with all the world smiling in its face, its commerce flourishing, its navy glorious, its agriculture uncommonly productive and lucrative."†   (source)
  • …were the Gelerts who had lived in a dozen different states and who apparently had left each one hastily upon detection of their swindling schemes; the Conningtons whose connection with the Freedmen's Bureau in a distant state had been highly lucrative at the expense of the ignorant blacks they were supposed to protect; the Deals who had sold "cardboard" shoes to the Confederate government until it became necessary for them to spend the last year of the war in Europe; the Hundons who…†   (source)
  • His ambitions were directed toward public life; he had no legal aspirations, lucrative though his practice was.†   (source)
  • This branch of the compassionate art was attracting some of the ablest Japanese doctors, and it also happened to be growing extremely lucrative.†   (source)
  • They lived solely for love and besides their official and lucrative friends had other love affairs as well.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Amory, "if being an idealist is both safe and lucrative, I might try it."†   (source)
  • I am told that pork-packing is the most lucrative profession in America, after politics.†   (source)
  • He found many lucrative tips on "Focusing Appeals,"†   (source)
  • Easy, pleasant, lucrative home-work for wives: asking people to define their jobs.†   (source)
  • …questions, but it was labour in vain: like that scholarly swindler who devoted to the fabrication of forged palimpsests a wealth of skill and knowledge and industry the hundredth part of which would have sufficed to establish him in a more lucrative—but an honourable occupation, M. Legrandin, had we insisted further, would in the end have constructed a whole system of ethics, and a celestial geography of Lower Normandy, sooner than admit to us that, within a mile of Balbec, his own…†   (source)
  • And then there was Robert Kain, another youth—very tall, very cheerful and very ambitious in regard to her, who was connected with one of the local electric company's branch offices, but his position was not sufficiently lucrative—a mere entry clerk.†   (source)
  • "New York—New York—but must it be especially New York?" he stammered, utterly unable to imagine what lucrative opening his native city could offer to a young man to whom good conversation appeared to be the only necessity.†   (source)
  • His conversation was a series of maxims and admonitions: "If you stay with the Department of Public Health for a couple of years and take care to meet the right people, you'll be able to go into very lucrative practice here.†   (source)
  • They had waxed fat on lucrative jobs; they had basked in the presence of girls whose brothers and lovers were in the trenches or on the turbulent sea, exposed to the ceaseless dread and almost ceaseless toil of war.†   (source)
  • Some years before a Royal Charter had been obtained, and the profession was becoming every year more respectable, lucrative, and important.†   (source)
  • One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable.†   (source)
  • She rested then, while Carol looked about the room—the welcome to strangers, the sanctuary of hospitable Main Street, the lucrative property of Kennicott's friend, Jackson Elder.†   (source)
  • Mr. Blausser reared up like an elephant with a camel's neck—red faced, red eyed, heavy fisted, slightly belching—a born leader, divinely intended to be a congressman but deflected to the more lucrative honors of real-estate.†   (source)
  • Peggotty's business, which was what we used to call 'common-form business' in the Commons (and very light and lucrative the common-form business was), being settled, I took her down to the office one morning to pay her bill.†   (source)
  • In 1809 he was a captain in the Guards, wore medals, and held some special lucrative posts in Petersburg.†   (source)
  • In the mean time he had no money or prospects of money; and his practice was not getting more lucrative.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Bumble was cunning enough; and he at once saw that an opportunity was opened, for the lucrative disposal of some secret in the possession of his better half.†   (source)
  • Whatever is done afterwards is with a view to some special and lucrative object; a science is taken up as a matter of business, and the only branch of it which is attended to is such as admits of an immediate practical application.†   (source)
  • Indeed, few rich commodities were to be obtained without paying a heavy sum in this particular stock, and a man's business was seldom very lucrative unless he knew precisely when and how to throw his hoard of conscience into the market.†   (source)
  • It was not lucrative to a young practitioner, with very little influence in London; and although he was, night and day, at the service of numbers of poor people and did wonders of gentleness and skill for them, he gained very little by it in money.†   (source)
  • It would be long indeed ere you would find so lucrative a post as that you have now the good fortune to fill.†   (source)
  • He was in the East India Company's Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of which we write, in the Bengal division of the East India Register, as collector of Boggley Wollah, an honourable and lucrative post, as everybody knows: in order to know to what higher posts Joseph rose in the service, the reader is referred to the same periodical.†   (source)
  • But in spite of his habitually dissipated mode of life, his inferior grade in the service, and his comparative youth, he occupied the honorable and lucrative position of president of one of the government boards at Moscow.†   (source)
  • Fishermen gather in the Gulf of Mannar only during the month of March, and for thirty days some 300 boats concentrate on the lucrative harvest of these treasures from the sea.†   (source)
  • The choice of such a man as we have supposed is soon made; he sells his plot of ground, leaves his dwelling, and embarks in some hazardous but lucrative calling.†   (source)
  • The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; neither was Mr. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race.†   (source)
  • A small country-house in the neighborhood of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,—a lucrative specialty.†   (source)
  • Mr Sparkler's lordship was fortunately one of those shelves on which a gentleman is considered to be put away for life, unless there should be reasons for hoisting him up with the Barnacle crane to a more lucrative height.†   (source)
  • But it must be admitted that the fixing, which had to come first, was the more difficult task:—what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an "appointment") which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?†   (source)
  • When public employments are few in number, ill-paid and precarious, whilst the different lines of business are numerous and lucrative, it is to business, and not to official duties, that the new and eager desires engendered by the principle of equality turn from every side.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether you find also in your part of the world that there are certain people who go zealously snuffing about to smell out moral corruption, and, as soon as they have found some, put the person concerned into some lucrative position where they can keep their eye on him.†   (source)
  • It was one of those snug, lucrative berths of which there are so many more nowadays than there used to be, with incomes ranging from one thousand to fifty thousand roubles.†   (source)
  • They were always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were sufficiently lucrative.†   (source)
  • The citizen of the North has not only experience, but knowledge: nevertheless he sets but little value upon the pleasures of knowledge; he esteems it as the means of attaining a certain end, and he is only anxious to seize its more lucrative applications.†   (source)
  • A man who simply wished to retain his lucrative post would today agree with Pfuel, tomorrow with his opponent, and the day after, merely to avoid responsibility or to please the Emperor, would declare that he had no opinion at all on the matter.†   (source)
  • Consequently the distributors of earthly blessings in the shape of places, rents, shares, and such, were all his friends, and could not overlook one of their own set; and Oblonsky had no need to make any special exertion to get a lucrative post.†   (source)
  • In Louisiana the cultivation of the sugar-cane is exceedingly lucrative, and nowhere does a laborer earn so much by his work, and, as there is always a certain relation between the cost of production and the value of the produce, the price of slaves is very high in Louisiana.†   (source)
  • Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,—places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,—and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.†   (source)
  • [Footnote g: The easy circumstances in which secondary functionaries are placed in the United States result also from another cause, which is independent of the general tendencies of democracy; every kind of private business is very lucrative, and the State would not be served at all if it did not pay its servants.†   (source)
  • Faultfinding being a proverbially bad hat Mr Bloom thought well to stir or try to the clotted sugar from the bottom and reflected with something approaching acrimony on the Coffee Palace and its temperance (and lucrative) work.†   (source)
  • He had no apprehension that Jones was in love with Sophia; and as for any lucrative motives, he imagined they would sway very little with so silly a fellow.†   (source)
  • He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure.†   (source)
  • These considerations apprise us, that the government can have no great option between fit character; and that a temporary duration in office, which would naturally discourage such characters from quitting a lucrative line of practice to accept a seat on the bench, would have a tendency to throw the administration of justice into hands less able, and less well qualified, to conduct it with utility and dignity.†   (source)
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