Parks, who contributes an essay to Kun's book, "Songs in the Key of Los Angeles: Sheet Music From the Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library," says the effort, underwritten by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, "flies in the face of what Los Angeles seems to be obsessed with, which is the progress of profit and the expendability of everything that was so yesteryear.
As common-pool resource systems devoted primarily to non-economic ends, forests and chases are anathematised in narratives of the origins and progress of profit-seeking modernity and the democratic circumscription of arbitrary sovereign power.
"It is a recipe for two years of uncertainty in which inward investment will drain away, two years of uncertainty in which businesses will not be able to plan for the future, and two years of wasted opportunities for progress, for profit, for prosperity: a clear and present danger to British jobs, British business, British families and British prosperity".
Digesting last July's acquisition of Microsoft's msft Sidewalk local guides greatly enhanced position against AOL's aol Digital City but reversed progress to profit.
In "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" (Nation), he collaborates with the graphic artist Joe Sacco in documentary reportage from what Hedges calls "the sacrifice zones, those areas in the country that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement".
Because New York City is so efficient at consuming its own past in the name of progress and profit, its ruins tend to hold the allure of rarities.
The so-called Latin invaders of 1202 looted Byzantium in the name of religion; today the city is being pillaged in the name of progress and profit.
Others see merely the beautiful convergence of profit and progress, while the rest are left to endure the disinfecting scrub of modernity, which spreads silently like Hannah Arendt's definition of evil -- with neither depth nor dimension, like a fungus, over the surface of all things.
Might as well spend your 40+ hours per week doing something you are proud of, creating progress and profit for a company/brand you believe in.
Without the goodwill of other stakeholders in the sector, the progress of these privately owned, profit-distributing, social purpose organisations could be hampered.
It is "almost a metaphor for the progress of the not-for-profit theater," said Bernard Gersten, executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater, the largest nonprofit with a budget of about $25 million.
