Insiders and profiteers are increasingly using oil revenues to take over service industries.

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And he made a commitment -- far from realized -- to identify and punish profiteers from fuel subsidy scams.

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This is a holdover from the 1800s and early days of futures trading, when speculators were, to be fair, profiteers.

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There is an implied moral critique here of Janus-faced profiteers who ought really to admit that their arguments are specious.

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The trick to protecting your company and your money from Entrepreneurship Profiteers is to identify them as early as possible.

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Now, as their filched supplies begin to run out, they are forced to pay huge mark-ups to profiteers, or go hungry.

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And finally, since the monetary stewards rarely admit their guilt, as inflation roars, businesses will be pilloried as profiteers due to the inevitable rising prices.

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Entrepreneurship Profiteers claim to help startups with strategy, fundraising, design, development, hiring, professional services, you name it, but at the end of the day the entrepreneurs they con have little to show for their time or money spent.

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Be wary of Entrepreneurship Profiteers.

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They are the Entrepreneurship Profiteers.

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"We need to watch, for example, as an old woman, alone, is forced to carry her groceries in August heat over a fifty-acre parking lot: then we know, safe from the comforting lies of profiteers, that we must begin again, " Mr. Adams writes, again referring to "The New West" series.

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