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  • And the way that we've been running the engine of capitalism has been to think profit for profit's sake and really damn the consequences, even to the point where Wall Street largely came unstuck in 2008.

    Jeff Sweat: Five Questions for Simon Mainwaring Jeff Sweat 2011

  • And the way that we've been running the engine of capitalism has been to think profit for profit's sake and really damn the consequences, even to the point where Wall Street largely came unstuck in 2008.

    Jeff Sweat: Five Questions for Simon Mainwaring Jeff Sweat 2011

  • And the way that we've been running the engine of capitalism has been to think profit for profit's sake and really damn the consequences, even to the point where Wall Street largely came unstuck in 2008.

    Jeff Sweat: Five Questions for Simon Mainwaring Jeff Sweat 2011

  • And in return they get services denied for profit's sake.

    Raising taxes at center of health care reform debate 2009

  • This all raises an important question: do America's rulers secretly know that they're making a mess with free trade--but go on doing it for profit's sake--or do they sincerely believe in the policy?

    Ian Fletcher: No Need for Villains on the Trade Issue Ian Fletcher 2011

  • And the way that we've been running the engine of capitalism has been to think profit for profit's sake and really damn the consequences, even to the point where Wall Street largely came unstuck in 2008.

    Jeff Sweat: Five Questions for Simon Mainwaring Jeff Sweat 2011

  • Now I would never advocate harm to bankers and rapacious businesspersons necessarily, though we might consider revoking certain of their "rights" to abuse the public for pure profit's sake.

    Matthew Anderson: America's on "Lockdown" 2010

  • CSR was one of the fastest growing trends in world business before the economic crisis, and given the lessons learned there about the pursuit of profit for profit's sake, its trajectory will now accelerate.

    Opportunities to Make Business Better David Jones 2010

  • CSR was one of the fastest growing trends in world business before the economic crisis, and given the lessons learned there about the pursuit of profit for profit's sake, its trajectory will now accelerate.

    Opportunities to Make Business Better David Jones 2010

  • That was despite the high claims burden, which drove up the quarterly combined ratio in property-casualty reinsurance and curbed the operating profit's upside.

    Munich Re's Net Profit Beats Forecasts 2010

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