This model has provided an unprecedented wealth of material to researchers and fat profits to publishers.
It made China the world's largest telecoms market and created fat profits for operators.
Fat profits are no reason to sell but to the eye they flash like warning lights to me.
How does Elan pour money into drug research while still reporting fat profits?
But when you're a monopoly, you can always console yourself with the fat profits that come from plenty of pricing power.
That would have depressed the stock market, leaving the speculators with fat profits from selling the Hang Seng before it fell.
Providing health Care services is a tough business these days but Orthodontic Centers of America seems to have found a prescription for fat profits.
Banks like the credit-card business because the juicy interest rates on card balances, combined with their own cheap deposits, produce fat profits.
First Solar and other big solar players like SunPower made their names (and fat profits) by perfecting the art of making efficient panels.
Microsoft is still primarily a vendor of software licences, earning fat profits that it can use to subsidise a search war almost indefinitely.
Consumers suffer, but everybody else in the business enjoys fat profits.
There are fat profits to be made, even though the maximum interest rate that consumer-finance firms may charge was cut from 40% to 29% in 2000.
Apple shares are dropped for the third consecutive session Monday, as investors continue to take some of the fat profits the stock has generated in 2012.
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It still had most of the market and fat profits.
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To be sure, sellers of luxury goods--from yachts to art, watches and real estate--have had little trouble raking in fat profits since 2000, a period during which the affluent have been awash in money.
At the heart of the issue is whether a health system that once had few cost controls is now being driven by too many, in some cases to keep shareholders happy with fat profits.
Certainly, they will not emerge from Parmalat's wreckage unscathed financially, lured as they were by fat profits into making sloppy loans and giving the company the use of their balance sheet in other ways.
For the past five years, business investment has shot up at an average of 10% a year in real terms, as fat profits and easy finance have encouraged firms furiously to retool and expand.
While Kodak invented many of the core technologies underlying digital cameras, its management was too addicted to the steady flow of fat profits from its film, paper, and chemical franchises to risk cannibalizing it.
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Despite the sharp fall in natural gas prices in the U.S. caused by rising production from shale and other unconventional rock formations there was a time when early investors in shale gas made fat profits, a process which is being mirrored in Australia.
So, sell the subordinated bank bonds that you rode down, then rode back up and in which you now have big, fat juicy profits.
Because the FAT taxes only profits, it would take a much higher rate to generate as much revenue.
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If algorithms had been programmed knowing the dip was coming, as Hunsader expects, profits are fat and easy.
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The great 19th-century philanthropists laid down their fortunes and set up their foundations in the days when profits were fat, taxes thin and labour weak.
If Northern Trust prevails it will have been a great deal for the bank: When things were good, it scooped up a fat share of the profits, but after they turned bad, it would be the pensioners picking up the tab.
As Dean Wormer might put it: Fat, drunk (on profits), and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Just to make things even more interesting, some versions of the FAT would not tax all profits, only those that are very high.
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Additional financial tax ideas including an FAT (financial-activities tax on bank profits) were also considered.
When your profit margins are too fat it attracts all kinds of competition eventually causing your profits to revert to the mean.
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