Refinery production enterprise is a typical representative of process industry, which meets the growing pressure of improving profits and reducing cost from market competition.

炼油生产企业是流程工业的典型代表，激烈的市场竞争使炼油企业提高利润和减小成本的压力越来越大。

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Improving profits may thus require cutting costs, and that means fewer jobs.

提高利润率可能需要降低成本，这就意味着更少的工作岗位。

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As earnings season continues, we see several stocks beating expectations and improving profits from their 2009 troughs.

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One attraction of buying back shares is that it increases returns by reducing equity rather than by improving profits.

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Best Buy reported improving profits in the last two quarters led by a shift in sales mix from TVs and PCs to smartphones, e-readers and tablets.

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