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Consider and evaluate initiating new services and closing non-profitable services.
Matthew Yglesias » Advice on Recession-Proofing Your Hospital 2010
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Heavy industry was built up the way non-profitable industries are in the west, the difference being that they were state owned in the USSR.
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Most administrative costs are spent on denying our claims, filtering out non-profitable subscribers, and marketing.
Progressives' battle for reform not over, union leader says 2009
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Raising premiums is the best tool for the private health insurance industry to get rid of non-profitable customers.
Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers 2009
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Of course, while SurvivaBall is its own brand, it was created by America's largest companies (the Website boasts the logos of Shell, Ford, Exxon, GM, etc.) to avoid dealing with their impact on the environment in a non-profitable manner:
SurvivaBall: New Yes Men Prank Focuses On Global Warming (VIDEO) 2010
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Of course, while SurvivaBall is its own brand, it was created by America's largest companies (the Website boasts the logos of Shell, Ford, Exxon, GM, etc.) to avoid dealing with their impact on the environment in a non-profitable manner:
SurvivaBall: New Yes Men Prank Focuses On Global Warming (VIDEO) 2010
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The tax payers will be saddled with the non-profitable parts while decreasing our scientific brain trust.
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If all you see when you look at the media is car crashes and 9/11, then you are actually part of the problem because you are focusing on that while COMPLETELY IGNORING all of the investigative and non-profitable pieces newspapers do for the greater good.
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A profitable business has no obligation to keep unprofitable businesses afloat, and certainly some congressman from Michigan has no right to deduct working capital from a profitable business in Florida and divert it to a non-profitable business in his state for the sake of satisfying his constituents.
The Disconnect Between The Left's Socialist Goals and Reasonable Logic 2009
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Of course, while SurvivaBall is its own brand, it was created by America's largest companies the Website boasts the logos of Shell, Ford, Exxon, GM, etc. to avoid dealing with their impact on the environment in a non-profitable manner: While others look to Senate bills or UN accords for a climate solution, we look to our best engineers.
SurvivaBall: New Yes Men Prank Focuses On Global Warming (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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