The plan was to hold the property for a few years and then sell the lots at a profit.

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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.

How do you hold the sovereigns of cyberspace accountable to the public interest when most CEO's argue that their main obligation is to maximize shareholder profit?

That's a simple bottom line business plan.

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.

The same negative effect on the current account could occur if the corporate sector increases its rate of investment in plant and equipment or reduces corporate saving by paying higher wages or dividends.

Indeed, the impact of real exchange rate depreciation on growth is likely to be short lived unless increased corporate profits in the export sector lead to higher household consumption and investment.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Glass Steagall Act s separation of investment from commercial banking greatly benefited the established oligarchy of investment banks, but somehow the entry of competitors from commercial banks and insurers increased financial companies profits further.

Despite these initiatives, the Committee noted with serious concern that, at present, the trafficking in women and children was on the rise and that the gravity of the problem had very much increased since transnational organized criminal groups used Thailand as the place for gaining huge profit from trafficking in women and children.

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

There are no income, estate or capital gains taxes.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Those boom time profits were in any case overstated, because they were not adjusted for risk.

The researchers calculated that, from 1996 to 2010, cultivating GM varieties increased farmers profits in three US states by roughly 3.2 billion 2.4 billion of which accrued to farmers whose nearby fields had not been planted with GM varieties.

In that case, the cartel operators can be confident of profiting significantly from their activity even if they are caught and sanctioned.

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

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

Other firms trading in the Territory must pay a standard 35 per cent tax on their profits.

Globally, the profit of the company increased from fifteen million rupees in 1765 to thirty million in 1777.

In a rapidly globalizing world, companies can no longer count on their home markets as a relatively secure source of profits.

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

The combined profits of the key players in this market total 80 billion, which represents a massive tax on the real economy.

More important, it makes no sense to put new capital into banks that cannot return profits for the foreseeable future.

These actions yielded Ford a 2.7 billion profit in fiscal year 2009, the company's first full year profit in four years.

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

Markets seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the economy and for the battered profits of corporations and financial firms.

Moreover, after the stock market crash, the maximum tax on dividends paid on stocks was slashed from 35 to 15 , giving a substantial new advantage to long term investors and boosting the compounding effect of reinvesting after tax dividends.

On the contrary, almost every activity of government has an impact on corporate profits, and in turn, on the stock market.

If the dividend payout is 20 , the growth expected will be only 80 of the ROE rate.

The parties were ordered to terminate their actions and to transfer their unlawful profits to the state budget.

Criminals try to secure and further enjoy or use financial profits from their crimes through money laundering.