"Needless to say, the Rockefeller family has had a long and profitable history investing in the oil industry, including ExxonMobil," it said.
And having already garnered significant Oscar buzz for Lawrence, who previously won for Silver Linings Playbook and grabbed a nomination for American Hustle; well, let's just hope she keeps her word and two indeed have a long, and profitable, history ahead of them.
But the settlement Thursday might be seen as an effort by relatively new chief executive Tony Hayward open a new chapter in BP's highly profitable history.
To be really profitable, history must deal with political and military matters; and this is pragmatiké historia, in contrast to other sorts of history (IX, 1 2)—genealogies and mythical stories, appealing to the casual reader, and accounts of colonies, foundations of cities, and ties of kindred, which attract the man with antiquarian interests.
Dr. Nweeia of Harvard said the Inuit, the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, who know the narwhal intimately, have a name for the whale that translates as "the one that is good at curving itself to the sky". Around A.D. 1000, the narwhal tusk debuted in history as a profitable lie.
Ultimately we turned what could have been an unprofitable year, which would have been a first in our history, into a profitable year.
On 9 January 2007, one of the most influential entrepreneurs on the planet announced something new - a product that was to become the most profitable in history.
The Misplaced Assumption The International Olympic Committee has said the 2008 Beijing Games would be the most profitable in history because of record sponsorship revenue.
In order to find out under which operational parameters at current reservoir conditions the oil production might be most efficient and profitable, automatic history matching and reservoir production optimization should be combined together.
