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Wage controls, profit controls, exchange controls and other inflation-related restrictions similarly make it harder for businesses to function.
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To keep away from profit-margin controls, companies were considering dropping products where costs, and thus prices, had increased.
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Johnson Controls reported profit of 60 cents a year ago, but the consensus estimate calls for earnings per share of 51 cents this time around.
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Nike management had effectively cut costs, maintained strict inventory controls, and raised profit margins over the last year, but external impacts appear to be working against those efforts.
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David Sparks, from the Local Government Association, defended the millions of pounds in profit that comes from local authority parking controls.
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The industry makes much of its profit in the unfettered American market, and price controls threaten that flow of cash.
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Equally important is the fact that unless healthcare providers are able to defend, on moral grounds, their right to profit from their activities, they will be unable to resist any wage controls, price controls, or forced participation in government healthcare programs that may be placed upon them.
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Chief executive John Coleman said profit margins had improved thanks to a combination of fewer discounted sales and cost controls.
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It seems that the slim (and volatile) profit margins of this cutthroat business make it tempting for players to keep pollution controls to the lowest levels they can get away with.
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