Cuti could make his customers happier by hiring more people, but that would upset his profit margin.
First, the source of my profit was my willingness to take a risk and to help people by alleviating their potential rain-related misery.
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Queen's House is a private, not-for-profit home run by a voluntary management committee, which looks after 32 older people.
However, Geoff Muirhead, the chief executive of MAG, told reporter Paul Kenyon that the airport group is owned "by the people of Greater Manchester" and every penny of profit from MAG goes back to the councils.
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At the same time, I truly believe there are plenty of people in the insurance industry who wish their companies did not make a profit by excluding the woman who discovers she's genetically predisposed towards getting breast cancer, or by burdening the family whose child has autism with unmanageable premiums.
The exploitation of dead people for personal profit is the theme of Dead Souls, a 19th-Century Russian classic by Nikolai Gogol.
By profit, of course, we can mean both financially--these are, after all, people who know a thing or two about money--as well as culturally and socially.
The scheme allows not-for-profit housing associations to buy homes from people struggling to pay their mortgage and then allows them to continue living there by paying "affordable rent".
The challenge for Groupon, and its competitors, is to keep the businesses happy through the amount of profit it can make from the people it brings in, but also to keep the users of the offers happy by giving them a genuinely discounted product.
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