To bring things more down to earth, we decided to assess the profit-making ability of small businesses in a variety of more traditional industries.
The core of the American entrepreneurial ideal is the ability to profit from innovation.
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We have the ability to profit on both sides of the market and not just one side.
This will limit their ability to profit from their more competitive local currencies.
The bank has plenty of reserves for bad debt but that takes away from profit, and the ability to invest in new business.
In order to avoid this tax implication, investors often exit their positions before a year, which diminishes their ability to profit from any multiyear gains that may occur in gold.
They include worries over price cuts and shrinking profit margins, the ability of Apple CEO Tim Cook and his team to keep executing and delivering compelling new products, and the prospects for growth in key markets, especially the smartphone market.
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Instead, profit is driven by our ability to manage operations as cost-effectively as possible and by investing in maintaining our infrastructure.
For-profit social enterprises have the ability to adapt with the problem.
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Buoyed by strong sales of its popular RAZR phone and its ability to maintain profit margins in the highly competitive handset business, Motorola has become a big momentum play in recent months.
My fear at the time, and it was born out, is that if you take away all the incentive for the financial institutions to champion the companies that take two, three and ten years to work out, because you wring all ability to make profit out of that.
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Big companies, what's more, have the ability to squeeze more profit out of their products than do small companies.
Interestingly enough, this change in attitude at IBM also coincided with the unleashing of their latent ability towards driving high profit growth.
But rival Tesco, which has the kind of market clout there that Wal-Mart has across the Atlantic, claims much better profit margins, thanks to its ability to wrangle discounts from suppliers.
Although it has had an impressive track record of growth, its ability to turn a profit is still a question mark and it is likely that the company will need rainy day funds in the future.
If we want our real economy to grow and prosper, we need to lessen the ability of hedge funds to profit from market volatility.
Under New York's so-called "Son of Sam" law, which limits the ability of convicted criminals to profit from accounts of their crimes, Gravano could not keep any money he was paid.
In fact, because health is such a crucial value, I would argue that the ability of healthcare facilities to profit from their work is essential to the maintenance of an innovative healthcare system that delivers the optimal care.
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"Companies seek a listing not just because they can flog their shares at a high price after a few fantastic years of profit but because listing gives them the ability to raise capital efficiently and cheaply, " says Jonathan Dutton, an analyst for brokerage SBC Warburg Securities in Seoul.
Corporations expecting profit in 2012 may want to review their ability to accelerate expenses or defer revenue to the extent prudent and appropriate.
"Permitting Meltwater to take the fruit of AP's labor for its own profit, without compensating AP, injures AP's ability to perform this essential function of democracy, " Cote wrote.
In short, this limits the profit that pharmaceutical companies can make and the department has the ability to implement periodic price cuts.
The greater ability to budget each unit based on their individual profit?
McNamee sees other great Google products with high profit potential like YouTube and Gmail, but none with the ability to replace the loss of their core search business.
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The term applies to anyone who places passion before profit, and intends to combine personal interests and talent with the ability to earn a living.
The ability of your magazine to keep its intellectual property and profit from it, your GPS, cell phone, and laptop did not come without a price.
Neel Sundaresan, a senior director at the labs, says the economists are analyzing the incentive effects of free shipping, the profit impact of including more photos on sellers' listings and the ability of reputable sellers to extract a premium from buyers.
But given our present technologies, it would take vast changes in our ability to reach for the heavens before either endeavor could possibility yield a profit.
At the moment the profit is elsewhere, in services such as voice calls, texting, and having the ability to stay in touch with another mobile device.
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The message was heard loud and clear: If you limit our ability to create businesses, invest in the development of new technologies, employ people, and make a profit, then we will leave.
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