The Ace is not just popular, but profitable too: despite rising raw-materials costs and limited scale, it recouped its development costs within a year.

Ace 不仅很受欢迎，而且利润可观：尽管原料成本上涨，生产规模小，但仅一年就收回了开发成本。

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It may be intellectual Swiss cheese, but it's far too profitable for Wall Street to let it go.

尽管这可能只是精神上的瑞士奶酪，可是还是好得让华尔街舍不得放手。

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No one wants to see Japan's industrial heirlooms vanish. But too many businesses are surviving because credit costs nothing, and bankers care little whether their borrowers are profitable or not.

没有人希望看到日本世代相传的工业繁荣风淡云散，但是太多日企都在垂死挣扎，因为日本信贷宽松，银行对于借贷企业是否盈利毫不关心。

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Investments in small startups, too, naturally, but where are the big profitable partnerships?

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Politicians frequently wring their hands over businesses being too profitable on the backs of allegedly hapless consumers, but their worries are overdone.

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We may not be there yet, but a successful collaboration between creative content authors and profitable, popular distribution is never too far off.

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