The remnant whale populations were saved by technological innovators and profit maximizing capitalists.

The desire to maximize profits was being promoted to the extreme, without regard for the political, religious and cultural sensitivities of communities, wherever they were located.

Companies, while making profits, were now expected to pursue a global agenda in terms of reducing the economic disparity between countries, as well as striking a balance between price and social requirements (e.g. employment and environmental concerns).

Profit

So those are the kind of stakes that we're after.

In addition, corruption feeds on governmental policies that generate rent seekers and allow some members of society to capture unjustified profits by bribing governmental officials.

SOEs will be required to deliver 30 of their profits to the state, instead of keeping most or even all of their profits, as they have done for the last two decades.

Very lucrative.

The interest again!

Furthermore, the high reserve ratio and forced purchase of central bank bills squeezes commercial banks profits severely a phenomenon that will be intensified by interest rate liberalization. The quest for yield on available funds will drive banks to make riskier investments.

Bringing It Back Home

Longline swordfishing is often only marginally profitable, if profitable at all.

The Profit Sharing Economy

However, we do need to point out that, given that the private sector is essentially driven by the quest for profit, it would not be reasonable to fully replace ODA by private investment.

Lives versus Profits

Whatever gives the best profit.

7.1 Brief summary of the law on nationality in the Niger

Even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness.

We want beauty we don't just want function.

It is noteworthy that the cast and crew would ask for share the revenue rather than the profit .

Milton Friedman, a leading proponent of the profit oriented approach to corporate management, famously declared that the business of business is business. Indeed, from this standpoint, there is no contradiction between profit maximization and the common good.

People, service, profit.

The oil is priced off the margin.

And so the margin is natural gas.

No. Fair enough? But you do get 5 of the profits.

Fortunately, what motivates most significant advances in knowledge is not profit, but the pursuit of knowledge itself. This has been true of all of the transformative discoveries and innovations DNA, transistors, lasers, the Internet, and so on.

2. The principal driving force in the globalization process today is the search by enterprises for profits worldwide.

There goes my percentage.

There's the airplane ticket over and import duties, hidden taxes, profit markup...

On a lecture tour in the United States in November 2008, I could see that many people are now complaining about the overwhelming desire for profit in business and megalomania in politics. As markets failed, calls for ethical regulation of the quest for profit has become justified not only in principle, but also in fact.

They argue that the pursuit of justice clashes with the pursuit of peace.

Find out. Only thing what I go after I want to go after.

It became this economic sanctuary where they could do penance for their profit making tendencies at five cents on the dollar.

Such policies will seek to raise profits above those allowed by market competition, as well as improving the coordination of investment decisions across complementary activities, including through effective corporate governance among local firms.

Prospective project sponsors will also be concerned about their ability to transfer abroad or repatriate their profits.

A sorcerer's profit on Wall Street?

You don't even break even, much less show a profit.

First, executives for whom shared profits already account for a significant portion of income may resist programs that distribute profits to more workers, fearing that their own income would decline. Even when such programs increase overall profitability, they could reduce the profits going to top management and shareholders.

It is discouraging smoking. So now Philip Morris is demanding to be compensated for lost profits.

In addition, the aim sought by organized criminal activity must be defined as the pursuit of material profit the control of territories and markets and infiltration of the legitimate economy are no more than means to that end.

...days and yon pursuits.

He's making a play for you.

My lover?

CA That's a high gross margin business. I like it.

We care how we make our profit.