Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.
Driven by the profit motive i.e. the desire to make their own lives easier, fuller and more vibrant free people engage in production and trade.
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It's no comfort to him that veterinarians aren't necessarily driven by a desire for profit.
Instead, profit is driven by our ability to manage operations as cost-effectively as possible and by investing in maintaining our infrastructure.
Profit was driven by increased sales growth in commercial aerospace and improved operating margins with an active focus on structural cost reduction.
All of which, experts say, has led to more corporate spinoffs driven more by desperation for quick profit than by long-term fundamentals.
Gross profit increased 69%, attributable to higher revenue and gross profit margin expansion of 350 basis points over the prior-year quarter to 51.8%, driven by printers and materials gross profit margin improvement.
Cummins notched a sharp drop in quarterly profit, driven lower by decreased demand from oil, gas and mining customers.
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Olam's profit growth is driven by the volume of sales, and snack foods, where a lot of its nuts go, tend to be bust-proof.
It costs the economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and who better to point regulators in the right direction than investors driven by that purest of motives: profit.
Inditex said first-half profit rose 32%, driven by online sales and new stores in Asia.
"Despite the difficult business environment due to the economic slowdown in developed markets, Samsung achieved a solid performance and recovered its double-digit operating profit margin in the quarter, driven by strong sales of our smartphones, " said Robert Yi, Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.
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On August 10th Tata Motors reported a forecast-beating first-quarter profit, which it said had been driven by demand for JLR's luxury models.
Some doctors have been co-opted into the paradigm by profit opportunity: as normal fees have been driven down by payers, selling advanced technology to patients has been a way to maintain or grow income.
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Increased government regulation of higher education has been in the news quite a bit over the last several years, driven in no small part by the significant attention devoted to the for-profit sector.
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The oppression we speak of is driven by a belief system that dictates one rule of law for the for-profit sector and another for nonprofits.
But perhaps the best reason to be optimistic is that the companies in question are driven by a powerful motivator that is lacking in donor-led rural programmes: profit.
This bodes well for Wal-Mart as we maintain our bullish take on the company driven by expected improvements in sales metrics (like revenue per square foot) and stable profit margins.
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It has reduced its bad bank loans by more than half, and reoriented the financial and other sectors to more of a profit-driven, shareholder-conscious way of doing business.
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