Sentences with phrase «demanding large profits»

We don't have shareholders or investors demanding large profits, we are simply working for the benefit of the schools community.

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April 23 - Canadian National Railway Co on Monday posted a 16.2 percent fall in quarterly profit as operating expenses shot up during the harsh winter, and the country's largest railroad cut its 2018 outlook as capacity limits strained its ability to meet high demand.

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

After profiting from military demand during the First World War, the company became the largest single Canadian producer of steel ingots.

Small companies desperate to boost sales are especially vulnerable to taking on customers who promise large revenue boosts but who - for reasons like excessive service requirements, slow payments or demands for discounts - produce low profits or even losses, he says.

When a product cost is in the $ 70 - 170 price range, it's large enough to make a reasonable profit per order without needing to service the sale with too many customer pre-sale questions or with a little less demand for more detailed content.

In a world where the future of humanity is directed by the logic of unbridled capital based on its own priorities, which are in turn based on the principle of maximum profit in the short term, individuals and people are subjected to the demands of several large global players.

But showing a larger profit in the immediate future is what those who hold their stock demand.

If just one shoemaker produced a new type of shoe that was in great demand, he could sell his product at a large profit.

Basically, the cheapo chain stores make large profits by satisfying all the pent - up demand created by the boutiques, who already paid for all the design and marketing.

Having already published a book with a large self - publishing company in the past, Roxanne was looking for a straightforward local company who could provide print - on - demand distribution and inexpensive printed copies, without eating up the lion's share of her profits.

Most self - published authors will have either used a self - publishing house where they have «bought» a large number of books and therefore need to sell them in order to make any profit, or they have used a print on demand service in which they need to promote in order to sell any books at all.

Print - on - demand books are convenient (you don't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a large print run and hope you can sell them), but they are also much more expensive to print, meaning your profits are less.

It got worse from there, with more mortgage insurers giving in, and lenders demanding a larger proportion of the profits.

Which is why the only way to meaningfully prevent another major oil catastrophe is to curb the demand for oil itself on a large scale, with alternative technologies and prohibitive policies — we can regulate all we want, but someone's always going take the risk to make a profit.

They certainly don't want the demand for their products — and consequently their profits — to be reduced by a large - scale, rapid move away from burning fossil fuels and towards climate - friendly renewables like wind and solar generated electricity.

Money is too powerful and the nonlawyer string pullers would demand financial coverage, not just for our current costs of (a) overhead, (b) income to the lawyer, and, if you are in a firm large enough to be subject to billing targets set by management / compensation committees, (c) return to the partners, but also (D) profits to the string pullers.

Ever since large law firm salaries for new associates jumped to $ 160,000 back in January, we've heard commentary from a variety of constituencies, ranging from (see this post) law firm recruiters, warning that increased billables will place more pressure on associates, to lawyers, arguing that increased salaries demand concommitant salary raises for the judiciary, to (see this post) law firm economists, suggesting that associate salaries are proportionately lower than ever when viewed in the context of their relationship to profits per partner, to law firm marketers who view increased rates as opening opportunities for less expensive, midsized firms.

High - tech systems won't demand a larger piece of the profits or threaten to cross the street to a rival firm.

In both countries, our large and mid-sized firms are facing lower legal demand and flattening profits.

Even with such large market valuation, high - profit margins, and many resources, cryptocurrency exchanges are struggling to address the exponentially increasing demand from investors because of the strict Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems the companies were forced to implement by the authorities.

These days, DDR can be picky about its partners and can even demand a promote structure, such as its Macquarie DDR Trust with Australian Macquarie Bank Limited, where DDR takes a larger share of the profits after both parties initial investment is paid.

A large number of dot com companies will disappear in the next five years as investors demand profits, not promises.