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- adjective That
makes aprofit ;profitable .
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Examples
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Think tanks like Heartland falsely brand themselves as conservative while blindly espousing a free market free for all that history proves -- over and over and at extreme cost to society -- as untenable: a fig leaf that covers their real goal of destroying any consumer protections that could hurt profitmaking and the consolidation of wealth into the hands of billionaires.
Josh Silver: How Corporate Lobbyists Stole the Conservative Brand Josh Silver 2012
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Corporations are not being driven to Ireland by out outsized, draconian restrictions on profitmaking.
Matthew Yglesias » Blue Dogs Rolled at “Fiscal Responsibility” Summit 2009
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Leopold, therefore, must keep his profitmaking even from her, as he tries to keep himself and "his Jews" from being discovered and executed.
'Safe House': Familiar Blueprint, Despite Denzel John Anderson 2012
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In 1973 the Internal Revenue Service told Chicago it had a profitmaking company inside the school, and Nie was advised to take a year off to develop his project.
Power in the Numbers 2010
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In 1973 the Internal Revenue Service told Chicago it had a profitmaking company inside the school, and Nie was advised to take a year off to develop his project.
Power In Numbers 2010
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Romney's attempt seems to have been sincere in the state that the sheriffs won't allow us to speak the name of (take THAT Uncle Barney), but it still has to exist in an environment of profitmaking insurance companies who make more money by providing less coverage. jayackroyd
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Author's note: Notice how a company can change their tune in the name of profitmaking.
Josh Silver: Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It 2010
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Author's note: Notice how a company can change their tune in the name of profitmaking.
Josh Silver: Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It 2010
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Three policies are ripe for revision: the health budget, the 50p tax on the super-rich and profitmaking on proposed new schools.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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Three policies are ripe for revision: the health budget, the 50p tax on the super-rich and profitmaking on proposed new schools.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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