Word: profit
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Cardinal announced that its second-quarter revenue increased 3%, to $25 billion, supplemented by a 38% increase in profit on the medical-supply side. But perhaps even better news came when AmerisourceBergen and McKesson unveiled their earnings a few days earlier. Whereas a year ago, one of the two might have boasted about winning some of Cardinal's business, this time around, says Gill, "the same competitor is saying the exact opposite: 'We think all of our competitors are in good places, and given the stickiness, we don't expect any big accounts to change hands.'" In other words, Cardinal...
...October, the group opened the Ace of Cups coffee shop and bookstore - the first new business to launch in Cairo in four years. The windows are adorned with posters, and on the door is a carefully scripted sign in black Sharpie that reads "We Are Not For-Profit." Inside, the brightly painted walls are lined with stacks of used books. Johnston had invited friends to come and work at the coffee shop in exchange for free rent but got few takers. "A lot of people shook on it and then backed out," he explains. "A friend of mine basically told...
...Rotten Tomatoes) would have been American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein. Marshall can trash-compact those notices and frame his royalty checks. The film will have earned as much this weekend as it cost to make. Hollywood will gladly take heaps of abuse, as long as the profit margin is even bigger. (See who will win at the Oscars...
...Such fees may help discourage gambling addicts from throwing their salaries away. But they are also likely to be a hurdle in building up the number of local gamblers and will likely force casino operators to depend more on foreign "high-rollers" to turn a profit. That strategy has its risks, analysts say. Noel-Johnson, for instance, points out that 72% of visitors to Genting's resort in the Malaysian highlands are local "day-trippers," and more than half the visitors to Macau's casinos are gamblers from Hong Kong and Guangdong province who bet with limited cash...
...Roland didn't deny being angry at James, calling him a "liar and a crook" in court. He said that the retirees met James while on vacation years ago in Florida and that he persuaded them to invest their money in the U.S. housing market, promising the group a profit margin of 18%. Following the subprime-market collapse in the U.S., Roland now claims that James "tricked us and took us for a ride...