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  • It was run by a Bronx church as a profit-yielding enterprise—hence the “Servants of God” part.

    A Taste Of Seafood In Harlem « 2009

  • Militarism, however, alleviated these revolutionary stresses, by providing vast profit-yielding channels of waste.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • One half of the total mortality of that busy, profit-yielding city is among children under five years of age, two-fifths among children under one year.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

  • By the time Canadian and British capital came on the scene in Kootenay the cream had been skimmed from the profits, and the mines had reached the wildcat stage of beautifully gilded and engraved stock certificates taking the place of real profits -- of almost worth-nothing shares in worthless holes in the ground selling on a face value of a next-door profit-yielding neighbor.

    The Canadian Commonwealth 1903

  • Farming there is in no sense a profit-yielding business, but it is only a means of existence.

    The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, 1892

  • I would like to ask you if in the wide earth under heaven you can find such another profit-yielding market as this is?

    Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Various 1840

  • High inflation, currency volatility, rising unemployment, and restricted access to capital dampened Zambia's economic performance in early 2009; however, copper prices have nearly returned to more stable, profit-yielding levels.

    ScreenTalk 2010

  • Drop in production is primarily due to farmers shifting to higher profit-yielding crops, lower yields due to flooding in some areas and lower recovery of sugar from cane, against domestic consumption of around 22.8 million tonne.

    The Financial Express 2009

  • Sex and Scandal at Enron Your story on Enron speaks for itself about the wild culture of a medium-size business concern that turned into a profit-yielding company in the eyes of its shareholders ( "Enron's Dirty Laundry," U.S.

    In Search Of History 2007

  • Jose Thomaz Gama da Silva Ouro Preto, BrazilSex and Scandal at Enron Your story on Enron speaks for itself about the wild culture of a medium-size business concern that turned into a profit-yielding company in the eyes of its stock - and shareholders ( "Enron's Dirty Laundry," U.S.

    The Mideast Showdown 2007

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