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Our number one priority is public safety, and that hasn't changed. But the cost is what it is. A deputy costs a certain amount, so do cars and gas. We aren't making a profit here, and that's important to remember.

Our operating profit surpassed our previous estimate because the one-time profit from returning pension funds to government was larger than expected.

Our ongoing investments in people, technology and our brand may cause our profit margin for the second half of 1999 to move back towards the levels we've achieved in recent years.

Our new fiscal year 2007 profit forecasts call for a fifth consecutive year of double-digit profit growth, driven by solid top-line growth as well as labor cost reductions.

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Our mission has always been to help investors create win-win scenarios that benefit both the troubled homeowner and the investor. The owner in distress saves some equity for a new start, and the investor realizes a profit on the resale of the home. That's far better than having the owner lose everything in an auction on the courthouse steps.

People involved in printing are looking for people to do more with their pictures than print 4x6 photos. Making calendars, greeting cards, etc. are another way to monetize images, with good profit margin opportunities.

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Sustained economic growth is dependent on profit growth. Without profits, there will be no new hiring of workers and no new capital spending.

Standard and Chartered could be vulnerable to a takeover. Two thirds of its profit is in Asia, and it provides a good gateway into fast-growing economies.

Someone mentioned $3 a gallon, and I said into a microphone, 'Be happy you have a car and a house to drive it to.' The petroleum industry needs to take a profit holiday and pay some truckers to run some gas down to these people.

Some H-shares have risen beyond their respective fundamentals and it's no surprise to see investors take profit on them today.

Some ISPs are very proactive, and are spending huge amounts of money combating spam. The problem is not all ISPs are doing this. A smaller group of ISPs profit from carrying spam or take no action, and those bad apples touch the rest of the ISP community.

My opinion is it's only natural for the Nasdaq composite to undergo some profit taking after a 30-plus percent advance in two months. Also, many groups that have been very strong -- like the semiconductor group, the drug group -- these are up against relative strength resistance. So it stands to reason that they're going to be profit taking,

My only hope is to profit from the work of the big teams with nine men and stay with the top riders,

Looking ahead, we are confident that the fundamental strength of our business will continue, ... We anticipate further local currency sales growth acceleration in the second half of the year as well as higher dollar operating profit growth, and we remain on track to achieve our stated target of double-digit earnings growth, before unusual items, for the third consecutive year.

Material changes to first-half trends are unlikely in the balance of the year and we are therefore comfortable in reiterating our full year guidance of 7 percent organic operating profit growth.

I was the first woman doctor in Silverton. We were turning a profit in six months; it couldn't have gone better.

I think most people see their homes as somewhat transitory, and they're almost resigned about it. Say you have a house that's worth $1.3 million. Is it a reasonable expectation that you'll ever pay it off? Probably not. The most people hope for is that someday they'll sell it for a profit or leave it to the kids, who might have to sell it but will maybe make a little money.

I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

I still think we're in a consolidation mode. I think you'll see some profit taking still for the next couple of weeks, but then we're in line for a summer rally.

It all boils down to when is this company going to show us better profit margins and cash flow margins? Investors are waiting patiently.

It is disturbing that there are individuals, driven by greed, who have sought to exploit the nation's efforts to assist those victimized by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, ... These cases stand as proof of our continued commitment to pursue and hold accountable those who would seek to profit from the suffering of others.

It is even more troubling that individuals would try to sell these items for profit to people they believed were international arms dealers.

We now wait to see how all the stakeholders who helped to produce this record profit will reap the benefits of it.

We now know there's more than enough profit involved in downtown development to sustain more resources for affordable housing.

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

The above strategies have helped to improve the gross profit of the group and helped to maintain average selling prices of products, further consolidating the group's leading position in the market.

The ability to profit should not come at the expense of the most basic right, which is the protection of the health of our children.

The ANC is in the weakest position it's been in a while. So there's a little uncertainty and a little profit taking.

That's the most important thing: juxtaposing our positive vision for the city against Mike Bloomberg, ... He shouldn't profit from this in the least.

That's a tough thing to do, as we have seen with the AOL Time Warner merger. As a business operator, Roberts has cut costs and improved the company's profit and margins.

I would have to think that is nothing more than the prospect of dilution. I think shareholders are saying that Royal Bank you have been fairly aggressive in going out and buying other assets. Now let's see the profit potential that is going to come from these.

I would like to see a vaudeville world of three-a-day. Five-a-day is too many. Managers who are trying to profit at that rate will gorge themselves right out of business. You can't put entertainment on a production line basis.

Most of their operating profit comes from the U.S.. Everyone's been hurt by rising oil and gas, especially smaller and mid-sized pickups.

Most of the exploratory dollars are going to go to the great big prospects. And I think this will really impact the oil service companies' ability to continue their profit growth.

Merck has been hopelessly disappointing. The profit development is significantly below forecasts despite higher sales.

Mercedes has the potential to earn a lot more profit in the next years compared to this year because of the restructuring.

Members of law enforcement who peddle confidential law enforcement information for their own profit will be caught, arrested and vigorously prosecuted, as will those who buy that information for their own criminal advantage.

will enable us to deliver 5 to 10 per cent profit after tax growth in fiscal 2006

While the economy is down, it is not out for the count. Employment and profit expectations have risen and export intentions are at a four-year high.

We continue to see bias to the buying side, but it's less drastic than yesterday. We're in a wait-and-see mode with earnings, and we're seeing a little profit taking today. ... The jury is still out on how the rest of the earnings will be.

We continue to believe that, at the margin, Microsoft shares should outperform over time, owing to the outlook for above-average revenues and profit growth, ... But there are qualifiers, and finding catalysts is key.

We were very encouraged to see profit up at AOL, even though revenue was down.

We'll continue to assess the sales, profit and investment on each of our stores, but we do not expect another closing of this size in the near term. In retail you're always reviewing your fleet, making changes to the fleet whether it's closings or openings.

We believe that the wholesale power market is broken. Out- of-state generators are charging us outrageous prices. We don't make a profit on the power we buy from out-of-state generators. We are basically paying out 15, 18, 40 cents a kilowatt hour and we're only allowed to collect about a nickel from our customers.

We do make a small margin on each track that's sold at the store. But because it's Coke, there isn't a requirement for the store to be generating a profit for the store to operate.

While encouraged by annuity growth, I am disappointed in our gross profit decline. This was largely due to increased costs and had a direct impact on our first-quarter earnings.

We're definitely seeing a little profit taking, but I think it's healthy to see a little consolidation after this rally. We've got a lot of economic news coming out this week, and there's always the potential for a negative surprise, so the market could see more weakness.

We don't profit from that. We want to be part of the solution. High gas prices don't help us.

We don't think it does (change the pace), but it raises some uncertainty and the stock has sold off in some profit taking. This is a nervous market environment.

We expect 2001 to be yet another year of profit expansion, albeit at a slower pace.

We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 1998, which was disappointing.

We don't have a big profit margin. We're sitting at around 3 or 4 percent, maybe, and it's going to cut that down to where we're losing money and then how can we stay in business.

We have been taking a very close look at its lines of business and believe there is a clear opportunity to unlock more value by running Sea-Land's three key components as distinct profit centers.

We must not permit anyone in the gasoline supply chain to profit from a natural disaster by taking advantage of consumers,

We had an excellent apnea monitor program, but looking at national and local competitors, we really couldn't compete. We had to look at profit margins and profitability, so we made the decision to divest out of the apnea monitor program.

We had very solid gains over December and some profit taking is not out of the question at this time of the year.

You are guarding yourself against a catastrophic event. BSE is a good example of that. You have some protection but you still can't ensure a profit with LRP.

You are getting some long-overdue profit taking in the technology sector, and the cyclical stocks are having their day in the sun.

We have changed the focus of this company from the profit story to a growth story,

We have more profit warning jitters as the U.S. economy appears to be slowing,

Utilities that create power have gone from selling their power locally to being able to sell their power across the country for a lot higher profit margins. We don't have the ability, even as a pool, to get low cost power anymore. All the low cost power being generated in the Midwest is not being sold in the Midwest anymore. It's being shipped to the coasts where they can make more money.

We have had really spectacular profit reports, by and large, from most companies so far in this quarter. I think retail will be a disappointment, going forward. But, up until now, without any retailers, we've had a nice run. But people have been saying, you know, first of all, the growth rate has slowed from the first quarter to the second, and then the projections are that they will continue to slow down in the third and fourth quarters - we're coming up against really tough comparisons. And I think you know as people look to sort of the slowing of the growth rates, they begin to worry about valuations.

We could not be more pleased with our investments in the Lexus and Toyota franchises in Manchester and Houston. These franchise and facility actions will support additional revenue and profit growth while leveraging our operational scale. The stock repurchase and franchise dispositions demonstrate our commitment to improve stockholder value and are consistent with our previously announced strategy.

We'll probably see some profit taking going into next month.

We were, so to speak, dancing in the aisles. The volatility provides us opportunity. When things get more out of whack, we can profit from it.

Today's fall. . . is as much about profit taking as it is to do with the cautious outlook statement.

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Under the circumstances of the current high oil prices, whether the newly purchased planes can bring profit to the companies remains unclear.

We can all profit from creating a better healthier ecosystem. We could look into environmental and energy areas and see what we can do, to help bring jobs and businesses in here. My interest is in developing jobs that are sustainable here, at the micro level.

We can afford to do things that people trying to make a profit can't.

Those consumer-oriented stocks gained quite aggressively yesterday after the January retail sales data, which was a pretty good number, so we saw a bit of profit taking today.

We are in desperate need of immediate help. For most of us, the profit margin has become nonexistent.

We know that a large number of our Gourmet Consultants have been offering Two Sisters Gourmet products to their local organizations for fundraising programs. However, this has often involved some sort of commission sharing arrangement whereby our Consultants are making less profit than they would otherwise. While this has been an accepted practice in the direct selling industry, we wanted to provide our Consultants with a program that lets them keep their profits while offering a very attractive commission to the fundraising organization.

To be competitive, in the resort and hospitality industry, the spa has become a necessity. It used to be considered a loss leader, but now it's a profit center for hotels .

We don't have a target number for Alphas. But long-term, you will see more Alphas. We have a number of markets where we have too many dealers, and it is difficult for dealers to make the level of profit we want.

We're not talking about using it to build new roads or dams or power lines. We're talking about giving it to businessmen who promise to build something that they'll profit from and leaders that are so desperate to rebuild that they are willing to do it.

We are ready for the fourth quarter. Reaching pro forma profit does not require heroics, just execution,

we are optimistic for the profit which could exceed your plan -- 16 million US dollars and the majority come from the sponsors.

The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.

We are not interested in making a huge profit for a week or two at the expense of damaging customer relations for a year or two.

We are confident of the outcome for the year and expect that pattern of profit improvement will favour the second half,

When they announced it was going into the S&P, it ran up dramatically and held up. I think it's normal to get a little profit taking, even though the number was good.

We have made a good start to the year and we can maintain our full year guidance of 6 percent organic operating profit growth despite absorbing an increase in the cost of executing additional productivity initiatives in the second half,

We are gradually, slowly building investor confidence that the profit recession will end, ... What's leading to the bullishness is not anything you are currently looking at. Earnings are dismal, but investors are becoming more optimistic that the profits recession will end.

We still believe that the recession will persist through the winter, mainly because major job loss looms ahead in order to restore profit margins.

Yahoo will continue to strongly support law enforcement in their work, as well as continue to provide support for several non- profit organizations committed to online safety.

The rate at which the profit is taxed depends on whether or not the property depreciated in value.

There are no surprises - pleasant or unpleasant. But the fact is that share prices have run up faster in the last quarter so the stock could see some profit taking in the coming days.

Wal-Mart will aggressively protect our brand by taking appropriate legal action against those that inappropriately use our name or improperly profit from our name.

Wal-Mart wants to cut out the banks and become the middle man, so that they profit from the cash that flows in and out of Wal-Mart... and then go build more Wal-Marts.

Wal-Mart understands that they have a growing public relations disaster on their hands. American people are looking at a company with $10 billion in profit and $285 billion in sales that makes excuse after excuse about why it can't provide a living wage and health care to its workers.

The prospect for some profit taking ahead of the weekend break doubtless remains.

The promise of increased profit is too enticing for industry to give up on Terminator seeds.

Trading profit in the current financial year is expected to exceed last year's result. We anticipate continued benefits from recent acquisitions, active cost management, outsourcing activities and new product introductions.

Toyota dealers on average have significantly more throughput than our dealers do. And we know that throughput is a key indicator of the profit opportunity for a dealer.