Under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme, branded-drug companies are allowed to make a profit of up to 21 per cent on any medicines they sell to the NHS. They have a free hand to set the prices when they are introduced but, every five years, the government and the companies agree an across-the-board cut on all drugs.
"The government of the day decided it wanted to make a profit and I am afraid you can't make a profit out of humans, " he said.
The willingness of some unscrupulous German entrepreneurs to disregard elementary common security interests in order to make a profit and of the Bonn government to accommodate even, in some ways, to facilitate such practices, is simply unacceptable.
Schwartz, senior product manager at Gateway, says manufacturers lose money on the low-end machines but can make a gross profit of 20% to 30% on the fancy ones.
Now as funds for start-ups dry up and technology firms struggle to make a profit much of that advertising revenue has dried up leaving many new economy publications struggling.
Despite the price cut, it looks like Duff will make a little bit of a profit on the home, even though median Toluca Lake home values are dropping 5.4 percent year-over-year.
Chase says that these three are about the only carriers expected to make a profit for all of fiscal 2003.
After failing to make a profit on most of its titles, some of which sold fewer than 100 copies, co-founder Peter Collingridge quit the app business.
But there is also a sinister element emerging - organised gangs taking advantage of disputes over land to make a fast profit by buying it at a cheaper price at the expense of both sides.
I'm working to improve the prospects of learners and those who teach them, not to make a profit for a group of shareholders.
These calculations about the value of the Royals to the economy as a whole indicate that we make a very good profit out of having them.
If Germany is to enjoy the status of a leading Western power it so clearly desires, the willingness of some unscrupulous German entrepreneurs to disregard elementary common security interests in order to make a profit and of the Bonn government to tolerate, if not facilitate, such practices must end.
More incredibly, he boasted that Uncle Sam would make a profit on the bailout of AIG .
"We don't lose on them, but we don't make as much of a profit, " Ms. Black said.
If it thought it could make a profit by paying all of its freelancers, it would do so.
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Juniper has shown it can make a profit during the worst of meltdowns.
India's airlines struggle to make a profit, mostly because of high costs of imported jet fuel, said Kapil Kaul, an analyst at the India office of Sydney-based CAPA-Centre for Aviation.
They are setting up a business designed not to make a profit, but to get the attention of a larger company where they want to work .
The danger for patients is that managed care companies will find it difficult to provide a high level of care and still make a profit.
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The big difference between the two is that job boards make a lot of money, and a lot of profit.
If they can't deal with the unions and make a profit they should go out of business.
Hulton and Muller will likely make a tidy profit from the fruits of their research work, which they've personally patented.
These small operators combine a lean operating ethic and a toolset designed to make a profit on that last bit of juice.
"Because we don't make a profit, because the rates of interest we're allowed to charge are fixed by the government, it's quite hard to generate income, " he said.
But to suggest, as the Obama campaign ad does, that Bain shuttered GST simply to make a profit betrays a total misunderstanding of the outside forces affecting all U.S. steel production.
Finestrella is one of the latest, and greatest, examples of for-profit businesses that are make a tangible difference in the lives of the urban poor.
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Executives said they were comfortable with a range of analyst estimates for the firm, all of which expect it will make a profit in the first quarter.
We are in business to make a profit, I am not ashamed of that as a matter of fact, I am proud of that.
First, the hot-money folk were always betting on a long-awaited and large one-off revaluation of the yuan to make them a decent profit.
Although unlikely to rival the economic might of India and China or the resources of Russia and Brazil, this motley crew of emerging markets make the CIVETS the next band of countries to profit from a shift in global power.
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