The crucial drugs are unlikely to be
big moneymakers for companies that develop them, so governments and health agencies need to cooperate to boost the chances that they will be developed in time, notes Marie - Paule Kieny, WHO's assistant director - general for health systems and innovation.
Low rates have translated into a surge in mergers and an increase in currency trading, both
big moneymakers for investment banks.
When Michael Milken, the junk bond king, was let out of prison, he said that he wanted to be involved in education because he considered it one of
the biggest moneymakers for American business.
While the cardiac stent industry is one of
the biggest moneymakers for hospitals, this is not the only example of a situation where patients have been advised to undergo treatment they don't need because it is more lucrative for a doctor or hospital.
Not exact matches
As
for Radiohead, the band has said that variable pricing was,
for it, a
big success, though the group did eventually end the offer, leading some to believe that it couldn't have been a huge
moneymaker.
One of the
bigger non-cartoon
moneymakers for Disney in the 1970s, The North Avenue Irregulars is predicated on the premise of the «Neighborhood Watch» system.
Not as
big a
moneymaker as Harold's starring features of the 1920s, the RKO film nonetheless turned a tidy profit
for the studio.
Nowadays we take it as a given that half of the year's
biggest moneymakers are going to be cartoons: Even inferior animated sequels draw the kind of audiences once reserved
for Schwarzenegger and Spielberg.
With lucrative franchise finished (
for now), and with the Christopher Nolan «s Batman trilogy set to finish in 2012 with «The Dark Knight Rises,» Warner Bros. is suddenly seeing two of their
biggest moneymakers waving goodbye (though yes, they do have two «The Hobbit» films in their back pocket).
With many of the units selling
for scarcely more than $ 60,000, the market isn't a
big moneymaker.