By 2010, Dewey ranked 29th out of the nation's top 100 law firms in gross revenue, according to the American Lawyer magazine.

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It shows a comparable gross margin, but has higher expenses, half the growth rate in revenue and scant expansion in square footage. (The Gap, with half of Kmart's revenue, flaunts 40% gross margins and earns twice as much money.) Costco does compete well with Sam's Club, the slower growing, warehouse-style branch of Wal-Mart.

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None of these changes impacts Dell's previously reported consolidated net revenue, gross margin, operating income, net income, or earnings per share.

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Bradley's group, Palm Solutions, accounts for most of Palm's revenue but manages only 29 cents in gross profit on the sales dollar. (The software group, PalmSource, gets 91 cents on the dollar.) PalmSource gleefully licenses its fabled operating system to the likes of Sony and Kyocera, which then use it as a blunt object to beat Bradley's hardware group into the ground.

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Next, to calculate gross income, the actor's total compensation was divided into net revenue.

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They also accuse the company and the government of ignoring "Mr Gross's repeated security concerns so that DAI could continue to generate significant revenue and the Government could continue to use Mr Gross as a pawn in its overall Cuba policy initiatives".

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Last year Humanscale's revenue from the Freedom chair jumped another 30%. (Its gross margin hovers at 50% or so, compared with 30% for Steelcase.) This despite a memo circulated to hundreds of furniture wholesalers by Knoll and another chairmaker explaining that they regarded selling the products from Humanscale, a serious competitor, the equivalent of treason.

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Wal-Mart's revenue growth line is so strong, the company is thinking of lowering prices further rather than increase gross margins.

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