The Court assumes that firms with goals besides profit maximization will not behave anticompetitively. |
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It could reduce interest rates to the rate of inflation, and stop trying to screw a profit out of borrowers. |
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This price differential offered the Patels an opportunity to profit through arbitrage. |
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A scope is almost mandatory for an air rifle, and airgun scopes can have great profit margins. |
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While the profits perceived to be made by big landholders are deplored, all citizens hope to profit from owning land. |
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Irish Life director Kieran McGowan has a 21 per cent paper profit after buying 5,000 shares in the bancassurer at the start of July. |
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Instead, the accent is on improving business attitudes, leaving consumers with the impression that once again profit is being put before safety. |
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Those with an eye for profit will be buying new packaged items likely to appreciate in value. |
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As any employee of a cash-strapped non profit can tell you, money for professional development is rarely available. |
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It's time to stop letting this fat cat oilman and his corporate cronies damage lives and our economy for their personal profit and power. |
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In some cases though, the costs charged against profit reserves will impact upon the company's ability to pay dividends. |
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The liberal and reformist defenders of the profit system are incapable of providing a viable alternative to the right wing. |
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With consumer credit companies swallowing fewer write-off loans, their overall profit should be greater. |
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They are therefore easier to trade quickly to profit from short-term trends. |
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Those who profit from clear-cutting hillsides contribute to the floods that sweep away the homes and crops of those living below. |
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Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations. |
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If re-housed, these applicants could sell their property for a profit or let the property and receive a rental income from it. |
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Serious art over the next period will come into greater and greater conflict with the framework of the profit system and its political apparatus. |
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Essentially, the long downturn resulted from the sharp fall of the profit rate and the long time it took to recover. |
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Finally, when soldiers return to work, profit sharing is reinstituted as if they had never left. |
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Besides, in a world where consumerism and profit have melded into a homogeny of blandness, any uniqueness should be cherished. |
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Those tough conditions plunged the company into an interim net loss compared to a small profit last year. |
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Some profit went to the boat, some went to the harpooner, some to the boat steerer and the rest to the crew. |
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Any profit they make over and above the interest charges of the loan, increases the value of the fund for all participating investors. |
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In the final analysis, the source of all profit is the surplus value extracted from the employment of wage labour by capital. |
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He remains committed to improving efficiencies to deliver strong profit growth. |
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Instead, hens north of the Border will carry on living out their miserable lives crammed into dark, tiny boxes to boost farmers' profit margins. |
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You have plenty of autonomy, and once you begin profit sharing your bank balance could grow rapidly. |
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The profit of turbary is the right to cut turf or peat, usually in order to burn it. |
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According to this hypothesis, the profit was to be found in the saving in transport and tariffs. |
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There is nothing morally wrong with a profit motive except where it masquerades as moral philanthropy. |
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That's because low and falling utilization rates also hurt profit margins, not just once, but twice. |
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I don't know of any loyal fan who would put making a profit above watching their team in such a huge match. |
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We oppose any move which would put a profit motive above the educational mission in the public funding of higher education in Scotland. |
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The company reported strong profit margins in its fourth quarter results, although revenues were below expectations. |
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The debacle has provided a revealing glimpse of how the profit system functions. |
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A business analyst might correlate information on orders with cost of goods sold in order to understand profit contribution. |
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The real blame lies at the feet of the people who profit from this carnage. |
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Ending world poverty means rejecting the logic of capitalism that puts profit before human need. |
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Despite his significant profit and success in South Africa, Johnston appears to be tardy about settling debts in Scotland. |
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The land of spoilage, shrinkage, of profit margins so thin that the accountant's hands bleed with a thousand sharp cuts. |
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The Government has now legislated a convoluted process whereby criminals can profit and victims can go fly a kite. |
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It has since clawed back market share, but only at the cost of sacrificing a good chunk of profit margin. |
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No one enjoys being smeared as a cheapskate, especially when that cheapness has been presented as a ruthless desire to take a profit at any cost. |
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This is really money for old rope for the banks, who often make as much profit from selling you the protection policy as they do from the loan. |
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Good luck with your hunt for profit in pairs trading, and here's to your success in the markets. |
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The maximization of value, profit and satisfaction are still the critical success factors in a commercial transaction. |
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But there's only so much profit they will get away with before businesses start to smell something fishy. |
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There were no corporate raiders, and profit maximization wasn't yet part of the boardroom vocabulary. |
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It was when news finally became a profit center that management tightened the financial screws on the correspondents. |
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But what matters for capitalism is not just the level of profit but the rate of profit. |
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Any rental income is taxable and any profit on the future sale of the property is subject to capital gains tax. |
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On the contrary, it is only by virtue of the irrational and anarchic nature of the profit system that such a development could take place. |
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You have fixed costs, you have variable costs, and you have profit margins. |
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The plan was unveiled after the firm said its profit for the first half nearly doubled to 110 million yuan, or 19 fen per share. |
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He believes there are creditors and shareholders who believe the club's worth cannot be summed up in a profit and loss account. |
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It just doesn't work out economically, because the restaurant business has low profit margins and is so labor intensive. |
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The tight-fisted laird intends to profit from his marriageable son and daughter, but his children have ideas of their own. |
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All we know is that they approached the matter on the basis of achieving their desired profit margin, which included the full impost of the tax. |
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. |
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Because the Mandinka rely on their crops for food, little profit is made from them. |
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Ditching old equipment while making a tidy profit is classic Bell monopoly reaming. |
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The concept of mesne profit could arise in the case of a tenant and a landlord. |
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We can't take any more cuts in profit and will have to surcharge our customers. |
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Today's trends in agriculture continue to be driven by monoculture and profit driven cropping. |
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In businesses with high turnover and low profit margins, a miscalculation of selling prices can have a big effect on a firm's annual profits. |
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Cargoes were of unequal value, and the profit margin surely much higher for some than for others. |
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The book can be read with profit by anyone who wants to understand how the system works. |
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The companies must ensure that they do not put production and profit above the safety of human lives. |
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At the same time, if they are conciliatory in China, they are seen back at home as putting profit above principle. |
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But declarations of support for the capitalist economy and the profit system were not enough. |
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Gross profit margins leaped in the three months to 9.8 per cent from 2.9 per cent. |
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However, Fitzpatrick said that WorldCom Ireland was returning a profit and was confident it could survive the shakeout. |
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The shareware experience indicates that it is possible to return a profit even in the absence of enforcement mechanisms. |
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Jesus was not opposed to capitalism and the profit motive, so long as economic activities were carried on outside the temple. |
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Either way, the fish farmers will, once more, doubtlessly turn a profit at the end of the day. |
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I think that the profit on drinks subsidises the cost of the food in a lot of places. |
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However, a number of studies have suggested that both professional education and liberal education can profit from integration. |
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The profit from the sale of the painting was to be shared equally between them. |
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Never mind, anyone who wants to make a profit from education is obviously evil and best kept far from our little ones. |
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Although the company claims it was not losing money, profit levels were thought to have been negligible. |
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There's a lot of profit to be made if the volumes of the sale are particularly huge. |
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Calendar spreads, straddles, strangles and butterflies are some of the strategies designed to profit from those types of situations. |
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Since large sums were often paid for shrieval office, we may guess that the profit was good, and there is evidence of various types of extortion. |
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The fact is, the media profit from publishing only the most aesthetically appealing images. |
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The retailer could sell its slate as a loss leader, but still profit by directing its tablet users to its own services and software. |
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The variable, total, marginal and average costs are calculated along with total revenue and profit or loss. |
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Are you just a hired gun, a hit man, robbing profit and power from impoverished third world countries? |
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Quite simply, there is more profit in a bag of crisps than in a pound of potatoes. |
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During the first half, the operating profit of the Spirits and Wine division outside Europe increased nearly eightfold. |
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The travel slump hit earnings across the tourism industry, prompting a number of mergers and profit warnings. |
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Sadly though, not all blackjack mistakes merely reduce your profit on a moneymaking hand. |
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Early this year more positive news came with talk that the company was close to making a profit on a monthly basis. |
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The headquarters is a holding company in that it serves as a profit centre, and does not otherwise direct activities at the periphery. |
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They turned this costly process into profit by selling wood to teamsters as backloading to the Blinman mine. |
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The farmer is left to trawl the seas, casting a net for profit in an export-driven market. |
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The trixie would give us a nice profit should two win and if all three hit, the treble alone is a massive 40-1 shot. |
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And that profit growth looks set to continue, after Serco published its annual results this morning. |
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Of course, not many people play the percentages as well as that so the casino still makes a nice profit at blackjack. |
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It would profit Microsoft if all the other software developers in the world packed up. |
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None of this is helped, say analysts, by the razor-thin profit margins for many suppliers. |
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As usual, this big shot walked away with a slick profit and a wink, while small investors and company employees took a bath. |
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There was the TMT bubble, where countless technology companies soared in value as investors fantasised over perpetual profit growth. |
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Under capitalism all profit is ultimately the result of the exploitation of the workers. |
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Renters who are allowed to sublease their low-rent apartments can profit from the high cost of housing in the San Francisco area. |
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Famine was a regular occurrence, while spices, coffee and sugar were sucked out for Western markets at vast profit to Dutch business. |
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Anheuser has posted double-digit profit gains for 20 straight quarters, while its nearest competitors, Coors and Miller, have flatlined. |
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The gross profit margin slipped to 42.3 per cent from 43 per cent a year earlier. |
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He also delivered a sharp rebuke to those who argued against the day on profit grounds. |
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The company now expects to turn a profit for the fiscal year ending next June. |
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Of course we're in business, but we're not in the business of making a maximum amount of profit regardless of our professional obligations. |
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It apparently wishes to realise a quick profit from the sale of its airline stake in order to offset these losses. |
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He said sanctions often benefit individuals in power because of their ability to control and profit from the black-market economy. |
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Not only did merchants of death profit from war, they instigated it at every opportunity. |
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He believed that one should not profit from something important for the good of mankind. |
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And so might I, with profit to us all, beard the lion in his den, and failing if fail I must, succeed. |
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Today people who could have been attracted to a professional or working environment not dedicated to profit are denied that option. |
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Firms massaged their profit figures upwards so as to discourage hostile takeover bids. |
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After all, a multiple of 14 or 15 times operating profit is your standard newspaper rule of thumb. |
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That's because falling unit costs increase the profit margin on each good or service sold. |
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They are in the business of lending money and the more money they lend the more profit they make. |
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He was duped into thinking he would make a huge profit by buying jewels being brought into Britain. |
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I don't intend to live at my daughter's flat or benefit from any profit she may make when selling it. |
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The report forecast more profit warnings for the year and growth of under ten per cent. |
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And when the great boom began and the country's cities began to develop, there was a rush to profit from the fat contracts on offer. |
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A rash of copycats, who now imitate the same trading tactics, will crimp his profit potential. |
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The early part of the period was characterised by modest profit levels despite the vast expansion of the domestic market. |
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It will be strictly not for profit and much of the renovation work will be undertaken by volunteers. |
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In any industry, oversupply leads to price reductions and pressure on profit margins. |
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Poverty is a by-product of domination of the needs of profit over the needs of people. |
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They can still sell at a very handsome profit even in a slack market and some did. |
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The sum offered by Andocides and his associates was thirty-six talents, which still allowed them a small profit in farming the tax. |
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Please sign up now before their vast bloated profit margins begin to suffer. |
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In fact, as the business grows and increases its fixed costs, its operating profit margins are likely to suffer in the short run. |
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Ironically, big business is aware that climate change could be a real threat to profit margins. |
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If the loans are paid back on time, they could generate a profit for the bank, he said. |
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Trees and slash are left behind in the pursuit of today's profit opportunities, and nothing grows back except weeds. |
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But many analysts agree that the new price ceilings won't limit the ability of most power companies to make a profit in the region. |
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At the end of the day he compares the tally of customers with the takings to ensure his profit margin. |
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It is the laborer who produces things for the consumer to buy and for the capitalist to profit from. |
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His work at Balco testifies to a character that placed profit above honesty and too easily chose wealth over morality. |
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It said the involved parties may profit or avoid losses from such trading based on insider information. |
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But it will not engage in high-risk speculative trading to make a profit on its own account. |
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Recycling for profit is one thing, but when no money changes hands, other people's cast-offs are less desirable. |
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And a proportion of profit from the treks goes into a separate fund to subsidize village activities or be shared amongst villagers. |
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The option's cost, known as a premium, reduces any profit you realize on the stock. |
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Today, the privatisation of social services means that children are sacrificed for the sake of profit more than ever. |
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The capitalist profit motive is antagonistic to public health, preferring to treat illness rather than preventing it. |
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Arias, recitatives and choruses all profit from his lavish and quite astounding musico-theatrical imagination. |
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First and foremost is the acceptance of money on deposit from customers for the purpose of making a profit by reinvesting it. |
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Selling for fat is no good to us as there is no profit in that when you lamb at this time of year. |
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Rising sales will help to offset the squeeze on profit margins as productivity slows and costs pick up. |
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Rapidly rising producer prices can put a squeeze on corporate profit margins, causing stocks to decline. |
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The resulting squeeze on profit margins would curb investment, triggering recession. |
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The strategy may have been to go for turnover growth at the expense of profit margins. |
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This program generates a budget using cost inputs provided by the user to calculate profit or loss per animal for the stocker enterprise. |
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He has replaced the stamp duty magic pudding with a tax on the profit from the sale of investment properties, and an overhaul of land tax. |
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And what happens when the need for profit simply cannot be reconciled with social and environmental justice? |
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Risk assets are being grown at a cracking pace, while the profit margin earned on them is shrinking. |
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Rarely does a profit warning come out of the blue like the subsequent share price reaction suggests. |
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They provided work for eighty-one bargemen, and presumably made a profit for their thirty registered owners. |
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The fixed income arbitrageur aims to profit from price anomalies between related interest rate securities. |
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The firm attributed the profit to rising prices and lower interest payments to its creditors. |
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Under socialism or communism, producers of profit and receivers of profit are the same people. |
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Instead, every calculation of profit is carefully balanced against the potential risks in an enterprise. |
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Very few villagers own lots of land large enough to be able to make a profit from selling their crops in the market. |
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Promoters of these enterprises suggest investors will profit from the run-up in oil prices. |
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He knew that if he could buy items at a cheap price, reselling them for a healthy profit would not be that difficult. |
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Brokers and auctioneers profit by charging a small fee for each transaction completed using their services. |
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Without huge overhead costs, each extra dollar of revenue sees more profit fall to the bottom line. |
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On the one hand, a shipowner could send his ship without convoy and make a good profit but at the great risk of its being captured. |
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But from its inception, the Labor party was wedded to the capitalist profit system. |
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The index is calculated on unemployment figures and economic indices, including how much profit a business could make from investing in an area. |
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Anyone finding it impossible to profit where there is no competition simply demonstrates a lack of business acumen. |
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This book can be used with profit to grasp the essentials of British financial and economic history in these years. |
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When big Australian companies report record profit increases, it's not just their shareholders rubbing their hands together in anticipation. |
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It has been a big year with record profits, record sales and while a win in the ratings and a lift in profit margins. |
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But, a couple of months ago, it warned that its dividend policy was under review, following a succession of profit warnings. |
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At the time of his arrest he was heavily addicted to heroin and funded his habit by selling at a profit to pay for his own drugs. |
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With low interest rates, profit margins on retail deposits have been sharply squeezed. |
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This means more vehicles through the service bay and more profit for the dealer. |
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And profit is a function of the differential between real costs and possible prices. |
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The centres of British power are crawling with paid representatives of corporations that directly profit from slave labour. |
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More understandably, accusations flew about rail chiefs putting profit before passenger safety. |
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My job as a businessman is to be a profit centre and to maximise return to the shareholders. |
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Yet these are real risks, and they are being ignored in the headlong rush to profit from bioengineering breakthroughs. |
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A private employer is putting high profit margins above the interests of very low-paid employees. |
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Now the firm has warned profit margins would remain under pressure until its product portfolio was stronger. |
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Most current transaction fees are higher than the profit from any single microtransaction. |
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It also has summary statements for profit and loss, balance sheets and cash flow. |
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The company posted an encouraging increase in pre-tax profit even though turnover remained essentially flat. |
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These mechanisms and powers are always in operation even when empirically the rate of profit is rising. |
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Those who profit through spreading rumours should receive severe punishment. |
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And with their higher markups, project changes can further present opportunities for potential profit gain when managed efficiently. |
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She has a tough job taking Standard Life into profit and holding onto customers that have begun to drift away. |
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For every point that the underlying asset increases, profit is multiplied by the customer's stake, and vice versa. |
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It said increases in costs of raw materials has eroded its profit margins and yet it still has to stay competitive. |
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One profit measure was net farm income from operations, calculated as total revenues minus total costs. |
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Some tenants felt Christmas would not generate big profit margins for them, but others saw a ray of hope with a late-buying binge. |
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It appears that one of the major reasons for the profit outperformance was with their investment income rather than on the operating side. |
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That means that once they reach critical mass, their profit margins fatten as revenues grow. |
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The stationer, which issued a profit warning in January, reports interims on Thursday. |
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The Royal Bank-backed Tesco Financial Services will also announce its first official profit when it declares its interims this week. |
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In July, the company said its interim profit had almost halved, after recording a steep drop in sales at its core UK business. |
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Few sets of results will be watched more closely than the interim profit figures due from AIB at the end of this month. |
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It said it would not pay an interim dividend and halved the net profit forecast for the half-year to September. |
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And they do so while saddled with parties and trade unions that have abandoned all pretence of opposing the profit system. |
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The company, which failed to meet profit expectations, also said it would temporarily idle more plants. |
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It makes the city look money-hungry and willing to profit from one of its citizen's misfortunes. |
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Almost two-thirds of a tenant farmer's profit would be taken up by market rent. |
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No one in his senses now stall-feeds cattle in the Irish Free State with any expectation of profit from this transaction in itself. |
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He could have made a profit in such an economy, as opposed to looking for a rent increase of 70 per cent from the long suffering tenantry. |
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The heedless pursuit of profit can hurt the environment and conflict with other social values. |
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The oil companies stress they cannot cash in this profit because they have to replenish stocks. |
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In any case, a need to salvage some profit saw Rocca and Heather turn the returned bagels into bagel chips. |
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The book is an instruction manual for merchants in how to calculate profit and loss. |
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The review comes in the wake of two profit warnings from the group so far this year. |
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Not a single airline in the weaker group has reported a profit in the latest period. |
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They defend their right to profit from patients' pain, suffering and death with a zealousness that is unmatched in the corporate world. |
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Such a development inevitably comes up against the restraints of the profit system and meets with the opposition of big business. |
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May's profit has fallen 38 percent in the past two fiscal years on a 6 percent decline in total revenue. |
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Unlike volume carmakers, they could not profit from government-sponsored scrappage incentive schemes. |
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We know blogging has hit the mainstream for sure when companies are trying to make a profit on what started as a grass-roots effort. |
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Corporate profitability and the profit share in the economy remain relatively strong. |
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The Labour Party is wedded to capitalism and the competition for profit that makes the system tick. |
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I expect insurers and other firms to preserve their profit margins at all costs. |
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The profit realized from the sale of the school funded the new Monticello College Foundation. |
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That should spark the economy and corporate profit growth, lifting stock prices, investors say. |
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Affluent suburbanites create gated enclosures not to pursue profit but in the name of community. |
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Net profit jumped by 53 per cent while operating profit is up 25.43 per cent. |
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Whether you actually make a profit or are telling the truth are not the issues here. |
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That does not mean that you cannot profit long-term from the advent of the Internet. |
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He also betrayed the trust of his American friends for profit and self-aggrandizement. |
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Sounds like a lot of false hope, and a chance for some to make a handsome profit off the worried well. |
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If he had done so, a profit would have been realised on all three transactions. |
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Retailers are notoriously secretive about profit margins and the performance of their individual stores. |
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These profit pressures were camouflaged during the 1990s stock market boom, which largely collapsed at the end of the decade. |
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Am I expected to pay the IRS on the profit from the sale or am I exempt from capital gains taxes? |
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The same profit from ownership is realized either way, but not the same tax. |
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The company has denied that it has given its multi-access games service just three months to turn a profit or face the axe. |
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Put at its most simple, private companies exist to make profit for their share holders. |
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Bad weather, skyrocketing fuel prices and fierce discount competition are reducing profit margins to razor-thin levels. |
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Until a couple of years ago it was making a million pounds profit a day and enjoyed high customer satisfaction ratings. |
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Observers said investors should keep an eye on the operating profit excluding the charge. |
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After becoming an expert pickpocket he organizes a gang of thieves, whose goods he receives and sells at huge profit to himself. |
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The developer would pay for the site that amount that he could realise on a gross sale less a margin for profit and risk of realisation. |
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Making a profit on the house is his ticket to a better life for his family. |
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Progressives would profit more by studying the way the New Right responded to life in the political wilderness. |
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The results move straight into a very tidy profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement, followed by cleanly presented notes. |
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The only thing so far saving the economy from a terrible reckoning is the fact that there aren't great prospects for profit anywhere else in the world either. |
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When juvenile nuisance and disorder are the bane of so many neighbourhoods already, some people are not only fuelling this curse, but actually making a profit from it. |
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Very lucrative deals set up both to attract a broader, hipper consumer and to profit from that ever-so-cool Jay-Z swagger. |
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So if you reduce the profit margin by restricting advertising or imposing cost control, you will simply force companies to reallocate their resources. |
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They will see that they have laboured for the wind, when, at death, they find the profit of their labour is all gone like the wind, they know not whither. |
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He sees expansion beyond Singapore's boundaries as the only way to avoid the slow profit growth that comes to a company that has saturated its home market. |
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A profit warning in August caused a major fall in the share price. |
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He had done two dangerous things, stealing state property on a large scale, and dealing in a socially sensitive commodity, as well as making an enormous profit for himself. |
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Now we have hundreds of radio stations creating a profit with virtually no on-air personnel and no newsroom, no Associated Press wire, no birth announcements, no obits. |
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The company struggled to make a profit until the third quarter last year. |
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York Railway Institute is an affordable sport and recreation facility run by volunteers, where all profit is poured back for the benefit of the members. |
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This is another case in which the profit motive had conflicted with, and indeed blotted out, the object of the exercise, which was to obtain a supply of jurymen. |
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Each new project is financed by the profit realised by selling the last. |
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The provider receives more revenue at higher profit because capex and opex are reduced through the use of more cost-effective optical Ethernet technology. |
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Framers must do the math to decide upon incentives that strike a good balance between being meaningful to customers and keeping the shop's profit margin intact. |
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In effect, Colombian racketeers have successfully managed to penetrate and profit from the latest trend in the North American illegal drug market. |
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Would she still love me if she knew I had faked injury to profit from the only pub in town that still had not altered its written rules to address my behavior? |
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The logic of the capitalist is to maximize profit for him or herself. |
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According to incomplete sources, revenue from tourist companies and organizations peaked at 8.6 billion tugriks in 1990 realizing net profit of 1.5 billion tugriks. |
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I have found after discussions with the dealer that a lot of these old machines are scrapped and thrown out as a profit can no longer be made from them. |
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The reason that aggregate profit does not decline is that, in the aggregate, total sales revenues and total productive expenditures, or costs, remain the same. |
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A graphic example of how the profit hierarchy is dominated by major transnationals is the production of personal computers, China's second largest export item after garments. |
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But the profit warner of the year was Baltimore Technologies. |
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Changes that define whether piracy is for profit or not have set a threshold that will allow not-for-profit offenders to get off scot-free, Lee said. |
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The company said that these costs were expensed through the profit and loss account in the normal way and were a cost-efficient way for Elan to remunerate staff. |
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But downsize Fitness, which requires members to be overweight, plans to make a profit by creating community. |
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Business interruption or consequential loss covers the loss of gross profit following an insured event due to loss of turnover and increased costs of working. |
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It facilitated the accuracy of the account books by periodically balancing the books and extracting a trial balance, and it also permitted profit determination. |
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And reporting a profit slump of 92 percent is, well, what big-box electronics retailer Best Buy did Tuesday morning. |
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In this age of thin profit margins and smaller budgets for films, I think the fictitious junketeer could have saved the studios some much earned cash. |
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This means that projects you spearheaded, amid pooh-poohing, are now being valued by people who wish to profit from them. |
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But it is still uncertain how much of the bigger tab companies will be able to pass through to consumers, and how sharply the costs will eat into profit margins. |
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The other, I think, is the common conspiracy theory that pharmaceutical companies do not produce cures because they can make more profit selling palliatives. |
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In smaller nursing homes, where low profit margins do not allow the employment of full multidisciplinary teams, patients are subjected to little purposeful activity. |
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They are accountable for producing past profit reports that may have relied excessively on running down reserves to preserve a mirage of real growth. |
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Again, though, the Internet makes the costs of mischief-making so low, even if there's no profit motive, that its proliferation becomes inevitable. |
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The obscenely high price of mahogany woods and precious metals prevented counterfeiters from producing fakes, the profit of such operations being next to nil. |
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Now, the fair value of the option will be imputed at the time of issue and amortized as an expense in the profit and loss account over the vesting period. |
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The marginal costs of servicing these extra accounts would be minimal and therefore the salesperson's contribution to profit would substantially increase. |
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One of the reasons I'm so optimistic about the music business going forward is that the actual promotional cost center becomes a profit center in and of itself. |
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The market's savage reaction to most profit warnings is entirely rational. |
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Target costing is a process of determining a maximum allowable cost for a product by subtracting a desired profit from the product's market price. |
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The F.W. Woolworth Company reported profit margins of 20 percent but actually lowered the wages of salesgirls in its stores, citing the need for belt tightening. |
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Millions of the less well-off are in hock to money lenders because banks won't handle their affairs since the profit margin involved isn't big enough. |
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Mortgage holders are expected to benefit when the bank falls into line with other banks by cutting interest rates ahead of group profit figures due on Thursday. |
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Also, with the competitive slavery of the profit system gone, we could spend more on researching environmentally safe methods to boost production. |
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What's not clear is whether Platt will profit or finally suffer from all the adoration and emulation. |
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On a less competitive project, however, he would risk a higher percentage markup for profit while still hoping to have a low-enough bid price to win the job. |
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In the past six months, the sharp downturn in the market has seen increasing numbers of IT recruitment agencies experience profit losses, staff lay-offs and complete closure. |
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Given the competitive and individualistic nature of baseball under the profit system, players are under enormous pressure to use steroids in order to gain an extra edge. |
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On one side you find the ruthless pursuit of profit and lowbrow culture. |
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