In addition to the store closures, Sears Holdings said it plans to reduce inventory, focus on improving gross profit dollars, and reduce its fixed costs.
Another year of sluggish return on investment (fell in calendar 2011 due to investments in price, e-commerce, etc.) as Wal-Mart places capital into a robust amount of international unit growth and profit dollars into lower prices.
Profit in dollars or power is temporary, but profit in a network of people who trust you as a person of integrity is forever.
The question is whether a mix of tax dollars and profit-seeking ventures should take over our public schools.
Over the last three months of the year, profit was 11 billion dollars.
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Five percent on millions of dollars of profit creates many jobs.
The FBI later revealed that the smuggling ring, led by Lebanese immigrant Mohamad Hammoud, had made 7.9 million dollars, profit which was then sent to Hezbollah.
In the institutional marketplace, strange as it may seem, it is possible for a money manager to profit more from soft dollars than from the negotiated asset management fee he receives.
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The alleged chicanery served to falsify hundreds of millions of dollars in profit and sales to give a veneer of stability and strength to WorldCom, a wobbly amalgam of 70 acquisitions made over 20 years.
Texas-based Exxon-Mobil Corporation reported it had a profit of more 36 billion dollars last year.
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The for-profit company channeled millions of dollars from its corporate backers to two tax-exempt groups that Triad established "for the sole purpose of running attack ads against Democratic candidates under the guise of 'issue advocacy, ' " the report says.
Meanwhile, European businessmen were downstairs in the hotel lobby, plotting ways to profit off bountiful Libyan petro-dollars.
After 10 consecutive quarters of losses for the company, Sycamore on Thursday surprised Wall Street when it reported a small profit of about half a million dollars for its fiscal fourth quarter.
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Nonetheless, at the end of the season Porter reported a substantial increase in profit, clearing an extra seven hundred dollars.
Figuring that Australia's proximity would result in collateral damage to its currency, the 32-year-old mother of three quickly dumped Aussie dollars and locked in a profit.
"Drug traffickers who profit from the laundering of millions of dollars in drug proceeds can no longer feel safe beyond the borders of the United States, " said Mark R.
Jurors might be offended by the idea that Skilling and Lay, who sold hundreds of millions of dollars in stock at a profit because of Fastow's activities, knew nothing about what he was doing.
The fact that more in the way of dollars is going to corporate profit than to wages, a part of the deunionization of America, we might look there for some interesting data to say that even with higher employment we would yield less revenue.
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For-profit hospice companies are entitled to receive Medicare dollars only for Medicare recipients who are terminally ill.
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We need to prohibit public dollars from going to for-profit colleges altogether.
The blue-chip developer was expected to report an underlying profit of 9.6 billion Hong Kong dollars, according to a Reuters report citing estimates from six analysts.
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That's not the kind of profit that causes people to thrust billions of dollars at you, as very smart investors thrust at Meriwether and his partners (who included Nobel economists Robert Merton and Myron Scholes).
Gregory Sullivan, the Massachusetts inspector general, says that fee does not include millions of dollars in overhead that has translated into profit.
Papillon, my tennis dress manufacturing company, was annually generating about two million dollars in sales, making a small profit and my customers were some of the best known department stores in the country.
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But a virtual school does not fully replicate an actual classroom, and even if it did, we should be deeply troubled by the funneling of public education dollars into the coffers of for-profit businesses with very dubious transparency and even more dubious results.
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These coach contracts are just another example of nonprofit educational institutions acting more like for-profit corporations than a collection of teachers supported by taxpayer dollars.
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She was basically saying that company is still turning a profit and it's a pool of billions of dollars worth of assets and it's not about to go bust.
Since 2008, A123 has lost over half a billion dollars never coming close to making a profit.
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It has millions of regular users, a billion dollars in annual sales and 16 consecutive quarters of profit.
One managed-care plan in New Jersey spent only 59% of its premium dollars on care, while some California for-profit HMOs pay out as much as 88%.
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