for-profit
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This year’s ceremony comes nearly five years after a Times investigation rattled the awards’ former presenting organization, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which was effectively dissolved upon the Golden Globes’ conversion in 2023 into a for-profit enterprise.
From Los Angeles Times
In her case, California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, which regulates for-profit colleges under the state’s Department of Consumer Affairs, cited her former school for violating the state’s transcript withholding law.
From Los Angeles Times
Annette Ayala of Simi Valley took her for-profit college to court to force it to comply with the state’s debt collection law.
From Los Angeles Times
Problems exist across the spectrum of rehabs, from expensive, for-profit facilities to nonprofit ones: A 2017 investigation revealed that the two Massachusetts locations of Recovery Centers of America, a rehab chain that charges patients an average of $24,000 a month, was severely understaffed and did not even offer all patients basic counseling.
From Slate
The commission’s vote Thursday was in response to a March request from Edison and the three other big for-profit utilities.
From Los Angeles Times
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