for profit
Example Sentences
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A private for-profit company, American Advanced Management, swooped to the rescue of Glenn Medical and a nearby hospital in Colusa County, buying them and keeping them open.
From Los Angeles Times
Atlanta officials think that with for-profit supermarket management they can avoid the failures of some other government grocery experiments.
The department said for-profit Grand Canyon University falsely advertised the cost and coursework required to complete some doctoral degrees — a claim the Phoenix-based school strenuously denies.
From Washington Times
Rarely used before the outgoing Obama administration established regulations in 2016, the BDR program has largely helped former students cancel loan debts after attending for-profit universities with questionable advertising practices or colleges that closed suddenly.
From Washington Times
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the administration from enforcing those regulations, pending the outcome of a legal challenge that a trade group of for-profit colleges filed in Texas.
From Washington Times
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