There is a powerful dollars and cents case to be made for companies and investors to be finding solutions to the preeminent environmental issues of our times -- climate change and natural resource scarcity -- and to eschew the short-term mind set that too often sacrifices long term prosperity on the altar of quarterly performance.
The powerful dollar, blamed for ravaging America's manufacturing industry but hailed for helping tame inflation, looks like it finally may be retreating from a historic five-year rally.
Meanwhile, Obama campaign officials had calculated that with its vaunted fund-raising machine, driven by both small contributors over the Internet and a powerful high-dollar donor network, it made more sense to forgo public financing so they could raise and spend unlimited sums.
It's now a powerful, trillion-dollar global industry that has too much influence over our pocketbooks, self-image and storage spaces.
Can Patreon become a powerful, multi-billion-dollar company at the heart of the global media and entertainment industry?
Many enthusiasts for Europe's new unified currency, introduced only 16 months ago, expected the euro to quickly become a powerful rival to the dollar; they also expected the euro to be a very strong currency, largely because of its international role.
The dollar fell to record lows against the euro in thin trading; investors appeared uninspired by the jobs and manufacturing reports and unwilling to bet against a powerful trend downward for the dollar.
The initial decision on the drug comes as a blow to Pfizer, as Zeldox was expected to be a powerful entry in the multibillion-dollar market for psychotherapies.
Segregated hospitals could not receive Medicare funds, and the threat of losing Medicare (as well as Medicaid) dollars became a powerful tool for the federal government to end racial segregation in health care.
The trouble began when the Internet burst onto the scene and consumers suddenly decided that they did not want to pay thousands of dollars for a powerful computer when there were not many applications around to use-up that raw consuming power.
DeVos has a powerful weapon in federal tax dollars disseminated through Title IX, which requires schools to take action to eliminate sexual misconduct, not contribute to it.
