And yet the European Union is one of the world's biggest exporters of sugar.This is possible only because Europe's sugar farmers are as adept at extracting favours from Brussels as they are at extracting sucrose from beet.
But this justification is dangerously misleading, since the private sector consistently relies on the government or taxpayers to fund infrastructure, while extracting a profit, the margin of which can even be guaranteed in concession contracts," he said.
He said in the past four months Athens had managed to pay public sector salaries, pensions and its dues to the IMF by extracting 14% of national output, doing "remarkably well" for an economy that does not have access to money markets.
New York does not share California's generous laws regarding control of dead celebrities' images, and last week's hearing ruled in favour of those who believe the actor's estate has, for decades, been wrongly extracting a fee each time Monroe's image is used.
After the anecdotal intimacies of the award-winning Toast, the mouth-watering riches of The Kitchen Diaries, here at OFM we're absolutely thrilled to be extracting his brilliant new book Eating for England.
Annan said he would be sending him a copy of the annual Africa Progress Report, which shows how the economic benefits of extracting natural resources such as oil and iron ore often fail to flow through to the local population.
Shell has bought the site and has 10 supply contracts in place lasting up to 20 years, including from fracking companies extracting shale gas in the Marcellus shale field.
He began by extracting enormous profits from them and then failed to invest soon enough and enthusiastically enough in the necessary digital transition.
Yet some of our biggest companies and industries operate a business model that depends on them extracting money from the British taxpayer.
Usually the local partner is less interested in building up brands or expanding market share than in extracting short-term profits in order to invest in new, and usually completely unrelated, ventures.
What voters really want is for that world of stagnant wages and higher costs to go away.Stars of the populist left, such as Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, suggest that something of the sort could be achieved by extracting more in taxes from the rich and from businesses, and by beating up big banks.
