In the field of aviation, he founded the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, California, using the profits to finance the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
One local businessman, who wishes to remain anonymous, is gradually installing businesses in the ground floors of heritage buildings, and using the profits to preserve the upper floors.
The authors say you can then take that $40,000 out of the house, by refinancing, using the profits to buy another house or to fund another investment.
It would also include two lots that Fordham would sell to luxury apartment developers, using the profits to bolster the endowment.
The experiences sparked the idea of selling water and using the profits to ensure that people who needed water got it.
According to the arrest warrant and officials, Mr. Ahmidan was Mr. Fakhet's right-hand man, moving hashish from Morocco to Spain and using the profits to buy guns and explosives.
She planned to hang on to them for a year and then resell them, using the profits to pay for a down payment on a house in Scottsdale, where she loved living but could afford only to rent.
Some optimists, like Fred Hu, a senior economist in Hong Kong for Goldman Sachs, contend that the Chinese banks can grow out of their problems by lending more to creditworthy customers and using the profits to write off the bad loans.
The duo still make fine soap by stealing bags of blubber left over from lyposuction surgery, but instead of using the profits to plan world armageddon, they invest it in stocks and shares and buy a swanky villa in Malibu.
One group was in the basement, selling arms illegally to Iran in a bid to gain freedom for American hostages and using the profits to support anti-communist fighters in Nicaragua.
