"Business income" insurance covers lost pretax profit plus ongoing expenses such as wages.
But even as money is lost, epistemological profit is gained, distilled through the learning effects of direct experience.
Rick, I would not wish for any human life to be lost because of a lack of profit, or overly zealous regulation.
In a down economy, that 10-15% could mean our entire profit, won or lost as the result of what we know and the effort we make in obtaining and retaining it and how we put that information to use.
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The industry made a profit in 2000, then lost money in seven of the next nine years.
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But since then, every time the Detroit companies tried to scale back those profit-sapping deals, they lost market share.
Wells Fargo again booked record-high quarterly profit even as its key mortgage unit lost ground.
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Money managers lost money if they focused solely on making a profit when certain investments fell in value.
Multiplying the diversion ratio by the profit margin gives a measure of the lost benefits of competition should the firms merge.
In recent months, sales and profit took another dip, as Americans lost their insurance or put off medical procedures in a crummy economy.
Only 22% of families who have invested in stocks have made a profit overall, while 56% have lost money and 22% have broken even, according to a 2012 household-finance survey by the People's Bank of China.
But after the break another mistake from the Welsh side saw the lethal visitors profit, Sailosi Tagicakibau hacking on following a lost Dragons line-out.
Mr Arnault has lost patience with La Tribune, which has turned a profit in only two of the 13 years he has owned it.
On a GAAP basis, the company lost 3 cents a share in the quarter, compared to a profit of 15 cents on a fully diluted basis a year ago.
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O'Neill left government after Ford lost in 1976 and spent 23 years turning cyclical smokestack companies into sturdy profit centers.
This has riled private labs as not only have they lost business - in an industry where it is already tough to turn a profit - but police labs currently do not require accreditation in the same way private labs do.
French companies have, over the last decade, cut profit margins in an effort to stay in the game, but have lost ground in the productivity stakes.
"A lot is lost because Justice Department and Medicare investigators have reeled in HCA and other for-profit hospital chains, " says Scott Gottlieb , a physician and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute .
There was nothing sophisticated about these deals: Imagine lending your brother-in-law the money to "buy" your house at a profit, and guaranteeing you'd buy it back from him if it lost value.
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