To believe that the Ethiopian government will be able to use the nationalised assets in a more efficient way than Nestle is ludicrous: it almost certainly will drive down the business to zero by diverting its profit from reinvestment in the business to the purchase of arms.

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Dervatives are their crown jewel of profit and also ground zero of the meltdown.

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Bigelow will collect plenty of accolades this year and hopefully Zero Dark Thirty will turn a profit and help producer Megan Ellison take more chances on films that other funders might shy away from.

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Their toplines remain in a zero to 5 percent range with no operating profit margin enhancement within sight.

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One a larger level, we came up with an idea and started to learn fashion industry from zero and we strategized everything as if it was a ordinary for-profit one.

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They started out arbitraging U.S. equities markets with a zero risk strategy where they would buy and sell simultaneously and lock in a profit.

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