profit

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.

But the one that upset the financially wise was the professional dancer who related in a book how he parlayed his earnings into a $2,000,000 profit on the stock market.

However, there is a more profound consideration to this proposed merger than profit and loss.

That is, to put it realistically, they had to run their businesses at a profit, or they had to get the votes to get elected.

And the reason this could happen is clear: men of government, business men, lawyers and all who concerned themselves with the welfare of their fellow men did not let their concern to run their businesses at a profit restrict the development of freedom and opportunity.

Some would say that they were not permitted to run their businesses only for profit ; ;

So our innate generosity of spirit prompts us to share our trials, errors and solutions with any who are taking the pool plunge for the first time -- in the pious hope that some may profit from our experience.

and translate the whole into profit and loss and balance sheet figures which management can act on with some assurance??

What's your profit margin??

Latest models serve hot meals at reasonable prices, and at a profit to you.

Where the industry's product price has been kept below the `` profit-maximizing '' and `` entry-limiting '' prices due to fears of public reaction, the profit seeking producers have an interest in offering little real resistance to wage demands.

The entry-limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition, but unless general inflation permits profit margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy, we might expect the public-limit price to approach the entry-limit price.

Disagreement on the amount of productivity increase exacerbates the problem of agreeing how an increase in profit margins related to a productivity increase should be shared.

Hence P is the increase in value of the stream minus the cost of operation, that is, the net profit.

If Af denotes the net profit from stage R and Af, then the principle of optimality gives Af.

This sequence of equations may be started with the remark that with no process Af there is no profit, i.e., Af.

A `` book count '' was the sellin' of cattle by the books, commonly resorted to in the early days, sometimes much to the profit of the seller.

the landlords make a tidy profit by raising the rent, chopping up the rooms, and all but dispensing with the upkeep ; ;

The company disposed of the pelts, but with what profit, the records do not show.

The King should expect no profit, and an advance of only 20 per cent above the cost in France, which would cover the expense of transportation and handling, was all he charged the traders.

He rather wished he had never got into the business, and still -- scarcely to be resisted, a nice little profit with not much work involved, easy money

He said he favors wage increases for workers -- `` but manufacturers are caught in a profit squeeze '' -- and raises should only come when the public is conditioned to higher prices, he added.

Any tax bill also will revive allegations that some of his followers have been using their administration affiliations imprudently to profit themselves.