But to allow teams to abandon areas which have loyally supported them so an owner can make a windfall profit is another matter.

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In 1979, President Carter succeeded in convincing Congress to pass the incredibly wrong-headed Windfall Profit Tax, possibly the worst energy-related policy decision in American history.

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It's one in which your windfall profit is matched by a windfall loss for the fellow on the other side of the table--the unfortunate saver who lent you the money for the house.

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Favorable exchange rates provide a huge profit windfall for companies like Toyota Motor, Nissan Motor and Honda Motor, while making it that much tougher for GM, Ford and Chrysler to compete.

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More importantly, it will forestall the massive profit taking in the fourth quarter of this year which promises a windfall of tax revenues for the government.

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More importantly, it will forestall the massive profit taking in the fourth quarter of this year which promised a windfall of tax revenues for the government.

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In the heyday of Russian oil discoveries and rising energy demand, Russia would rake in quite a profit, filling its government coffers with cold hard cash from its energy windfall.

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Were we now to engage in new, undisciplined lending to the Soviet center, irresponsible Western profit-seekers and political appeasement artists who previously supported the bankrupt Soviet leadership may realize a wholly undeserved windfall massive "new money" from the West, including from multilateral lending institutions.

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