Kevin has earned profit sharing and health benefits at the YMCA. He has increased his hours in other departments too.
However, investors can safeguard themselves by establishing, and sticking to, a set of sell rules that will replace hope with sell discipline, and result in less losses of their hard-earned profit.
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In the same period last year, Sirius earned a profit of 2 cents per share.
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In 1996, Enron earned a profit equaling 4.3% of its total assets--already sub-par.
For Ericsson, which hasn't earned a profit in mobile handsets in three years, investors must wonder why they bother at all.
Last year was no different: its financial arm earned a profit of Y149bn, three times more than the next most profitable division, its US-based film studio.
After repaying his dad in full, Richman earned a small profit in 1963.
Family Dollar Stores (FDO) announced that it earned a higher profit due to food sales, though margins remained tight, and earnings were hit by a litigation settlement.
Mitsubishi Chemical, Japan's largest chemical maker, has earned an operating profit greater than nonoperating expenses and one-time writeoffs only four times in the last quarter-century, figures Toby Williams, head of Asian chemical research at SBC Warburg in Hong Kong.
Intel earned 55% operating profit from the PC segment in 2011, which is constant across all the above sub-segments.
At the end of the movie, each of the kids explains the business and states what kind of profit was earned.
First, they must carry a pro rata profit actually earned by the fund, instead of a fixed return being tied up with their face value.
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The average margin on total sales will fall, but performance actually has improved and shareholders are better off because the company has earned a higher economic profit.
Islamic investment funds operate by investors contributing money that is then invested so that profit can be earned in a manner compliant with Sharia.
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However the wealth tax on owners of marginally profitable businesses (or businesses whose profit is mostly earned outside of the U.S.) would pay more tax.
If not, you get a deduction for the "profit" you never earned.
Such a fund would be self sustaining if it were a not for profit organization and reinvested profits earned in expanding services.
In the first half of the current year, the margin earned by British Gas - that is profit as a percentage of sales - was 7.2%, compared with 6.9% in the first six months of last year, and 8.9% in the whole of 2010.
Toyota Motor believes its fiscal year profit can triple from what it earned in a year ago when an earthquake halted the Japanese economy.
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He achieved that reputation the old fashioned way: He earned it as a former Congressman, successful non-profit business executive and long-time top-rated talk radio show.
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Unfortunately, they were also expensive and often earned enough to break even but not to create a huge profit.
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The ECB said its interest income earned from Greek bonds last year helped boost its 2012 net profit by more than a third.
Others observe that the business has historically enjoyed profit margins of some 20%, double those typically earned by Big Oil.
Operating profit fell a dramatic 25% for Yum, which earned 72 cents per share and managed to beat the consensus Wall Street estimate by a dime.
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Standard Chartered PLC's China unit reported profit of 883 million yuan, more than double what it earned the previous year.
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