Textfree turned an immediate profit for the then-fledgling startup in December 2009.

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ISOs can usually be exercised at a price below the current market price and thus provide an immediate profit for the employee.

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But he wants to explore unproven ideas that are not likely to be pursued by governments, and which almost surely wouldn't be pursued by corporations since there is no immediate path to profit.

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"Students want a sure-thing, " he said, and for-profit job prospects in the immediate future are anything but concrete.

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The immediate concern for Asian investors is how profit figures will pan out as the region's companies start to release their year-end figures for June (or half-year results for firms whose fiscal year ends in December).

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Exactly as they had suspected, with the immediate burden of liquidity gone, borrowers put their money into projects with higher profit expectations.

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There were a number of immediate consequences on the offer, including speculators who apparently got the news ahead of time and tried to profit from it.

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But while the potential pickings from Russia's vast resources remain so rich, and as long as the powers that be allow BP to profit from the oil that flows, it is unlikely that BP's bosses will be having any immediate second thoughts about their Russian venture.

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