And even if it were, Anshan is just like any other profit-seeking business, right?
This requires the regulator to maintain the balance between profit-seeking and provision of a public service.
New, profit-seeking exchanges tend to be free of such wrangling and lighter on their feet.
Virtually every step forward, and every giant leap, was the product, not of philanthropic giving, but of profit-seeking.
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No profit-seeking private partnership is above kow-towing to its client in search of more fees and more work.
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The question is whether a mix of tax dollars and profit-seeking ventures should take over our public schools.
Profit-seeking entrepreneurs could take a few tips from billionaire software engineer-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates.
Now he develops such profit-seeking wares as the Lambda Router, the world's first big all-optical switch, due later this year.
All profit-seeking centers have to do to register with Uncle Sam is sign up online for a Federal Tax Identification Number.
In "Profit-Seeking Pair" ( May 12), you quoted criticism that Singapore Exchange (SGX) is becoming lax in performing its regulatory duties.
As for the question of whether Anshan is a profit-seeking business, the short answer is, yes, except for when it is not.
The obvious inducement for profit-seeking executives is to sell as many widgets as possible, cashing in on the margin for each sale.
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It would be ill-advised, she thinks, to claim that profit-seeking makes one inherently corrupt, especially if it is balanced by other virtues.
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To ascribe profit-seeking to a profession that is heralded as an embodiment of self-sacrifice would offend the sensibilities of the public and many physicians.
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But most philanthropy is made possible by business and its profit-seeking.
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That should have stimulated profit-seeking behavior by the universities, but few, aside from MIT, Stanford and the University of Wisconsin, have displayed a flair for it.
Today, profit-seeking Internet companies that operate in quasi-competitive markets have strong incentives to pressure local governments to allow them to deploy broadband in an economically viable manner.
Mr. Kay's innovation is to pair this age-old paradox with a newer one, which he calls the "profit-seeking paradox" and sees in cases like Merck and GE.
As airline companies snap up these new planes, they have a chance to reimagine the economy-class cabin in hopes of placating both profit-seeking shareholders and comfort-craving passengers.
It would also mean reinventing the way we run organizations, built not on the sole basis of self-regarding profit-seeking motives, but rather organizations that are focused on providing thick value and delighting their customers.
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For example, higher gasoline prices in affected areas in the Northeast would translate into higher gasoline prices in unaffected areas (like Memphis) as profit-seeking gasoline suppliers look for the highest returns on their investment.
The benevolence of the rich even funds people like you, who have spent their careers sheltered from any effort at profit-seeking as you instead regulate, inculcate the next generation with your views, and defend bankrupts.
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The second section, Lessons from the UK and Abroad, contains three essays from education entrepreneurs who describe their experiences starting a profit-seeking school, and two essays that discuss findings from research on private sector education.
At root, it is the modern belief that the essence of moral action is neither expecting nor receiving any personal benefit (or, even better, suffering a loss from that act) that underlies the condemnation of profit-seeking.
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Private, profit-seeking businesses provide a social good.
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And he argues that investors seeking to profit from its leading-edge products would be making a good bet.
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In October 2012, to target short-term investors seeking to flip a house for profit, Hong Kong extended the existing special stamp duty, or SSD, on property resales from two to three years.
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