But student advocates, who have spent the past few years trying to convince the Obama administration to crack down on poor-performing for-profit colleges, derided Thursday's rule as toothless.
Since the highly expensive drug discovery process is, by and large, performed by the for-profit biopharmaceutical industry, and since any drugs for NTDs are unlikely to be profitable, there is only limited effort by industry.
And most of it is performed for large enterprises rather than small, low-profit businesses.
On a recent sultry summer evening in Fulton Ferry Park, rehearsals were under way for "10 Stories: a Humble Offering to the Manhattan Skyline," from 'Scape, a not-for-profit performing arts company.
During our briefing session I was surprised to learn that the Big Apple Circus is a not-for-profit performing arts group with some excellent community outreach programs.
Any not-for-profit performing arts organization does not rely on ticket sales alone to sustain their operations.
This approach to pricing has been practiced for years by airlines, Broadway producers and many not-for-profit performing arts organizations.
Located in the Strand District, the Grand 1894 Opera House is a restored historic Romanesque Revival style Opera House that is currently operated as a not-for-profit performing arts theater.
He just thinks that the profit should be limited, and that musicians should perform for the love of their craft.
Many believe the non-film and non-Broadway performing arts cannot be for profit because it would mean that the ones holding the financial strings would then have control over the product.
Artists performed at Sun City purely for profit, but with the Russian shows, it's clearly not about money.
