Thus the profit contribution to Apple could be greater from gaining a reasonable amount of the smaller market rather than the same amount of the larger one.

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When the executive team, culture, and business make a positive contribution to society while making a profit, they tend to have fewer lawsuits, better employer-employee relations, a stronger environmental policy and safer products.

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It is irresponsible, however, to disregard the large contribution American taxpayers make to developing the drugs from which those companies profit.

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The U.S. continues to be the highest profit generating region for the company with around 45% contribution to profits, and this business is showing solid growth.

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It is the only operating division whose profit contribution shrank in 2002 (see chart), and it has been hard to integrate its geekish internet culture, far removed from the Time Warner tradition.

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