Moreover, unlike private firms, governments can count as profits on their investments the benefits of positive externalities (benefits that accrue to everyone).

The Defense Dividend

So hopefully everything has been positive, positive, positive, more positive.

That's a simple bottom line business plan.

In the UK, the profits of financial intermediaries, which had averaged around 1.5 of the whole economy s profits in the 1970 s, reached 15 in 2008.

By the year 2000, the process was perfected. They merged with AOL, and in just four years, managed to shed about 200 billion dollars of market capitalization, showing that they'd actually mastered the art of applying Moore's law of successive miniaturization to their balance sheet.

João's exploration policies (see below) also paid great dividends.

In the US, bank profits were an even larger share of the total.

Russians pay for this consumption from the profits of gas and oil.

Jubilant Reaction

(3) strong, positive multilingual and multicultural identity and positive attitudes towards self and others and

Profits for drug traffickers downstream will be almost 20 times that amount.

There are no income, estate or capital gains taxes.

The results have been very positive.

All of this is positive.

Abuse of public authority for private gain is not acceptable.

Their implications for gains by Africa vary, depending on what the agreements are.

Profits for this operation were not used for the benefit of ordinary Somalis living in the area.

So there are clear positive outcomes.

Positive responses from national leaders

Positive responses from some religious authorities

But the Indian decision also means less money for the big multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Trucks sales accounts for a big slice of Ford's profits, according to USA Today.

Meanwhile, corporate profits have soared. The GDP share of after tax corporate profits is at a nbsp record high, whereas labor compensation has plunged to its lowest share since 1950.

It might even yield a positive return.

First results from that initiative have been very positive.

These measures were positive signs for foreign investors.

Against that background, it is not surprising that pay in the financial sector soared.

And the US financial sector, in greasing the wheels of the real economy, has been soaking up an astounding 30 of corporate profits and 10 of wages.

A dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits.

Pecuniary sanctions should be severe enough to eliminate a cartel's gains.

Most of the corporate profits came from financing consumer automobile loans through Ford Motor Credit Company.

Most patients have reported positive results.

The film received generally positive reviews from film critics.

Outside the Internet, the response was less positive.

We are a positive force for social and economic development.

The Near East has only rarely been the scene of positive developments.

We have witnessed positive reactions, both in Rumbek and in Khartoum.

Corporate profits are bursting at the seams of investors expectations in virtually every corner of the world.

Meanwhile, existing and newly created jobs provide less of an earnings upside.

The fall in value is believed to be connected to the 66 drop in the company profits in two quarters of the previous year.

New technologies and increased fishing effort are not necessarily leading to higher profits in the longline fishery.

But there is a more positive way to look at the issue.

Nevertheless, the devil is in the details.

The African Media Barometer shows similarly positive results.