Not a whole lot of kitty litter, but it's pure profit for a company that has none.
For example, the name Inside Information was a racehorse by Private Account and out of the mare Pure Profit.
That suggests that most of the 30%-to-50% toll charged by other fund managers is pure profit -- in effect, money for nothing.
Sometimes airline charges seem like a pure profit grab with poor side-effects.
In a land where the pursuit of pure profit was officially frowned upon, however, shareholders were to a large extent taken for granted.
At which point the used title is now almost pure profit.
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In investor jargon, it therefore has huge operating leverage: the initial start-up costs for hardware and software were high, but since break-even each new client's revenues have been almost pure profit.
The Keurig system has proven to be a nice employee perk and businesses are installing thousands of them, while Green Mountain also reaps a stream of pure profit from coffee roasters who pay a fee to use its K-Pack cups.
The trading week was largely driven by the news coming out of Europe, with the post-Fed rally continuing to pause over European uncertainty, some continuing poor global economic data, lowered earnings expectations, and perhaps some pure old-fashioned profit-taking into the end of the 3rd Quarter.
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Such research also represents a healthy half-step between pure academic research and for-profit development.
Now, obviously, Drum is right that the pressures to make a profit will prevent any company from being pure as the driven snow.
So much for Mr Blunkett's claim that the zones would produce new ways of running schools that were free from educational and political dogma: what, other than pure dogma, is the notion that it is sacrilegious to make a profit from education?
Carillion, which was spun out of Tarmac as a pure construction company in 1999, now makes two-thirds of its operating profit from support services and PFI investment.
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