Whether you see porn as just another sector disrupted by the Internet or as a still powerful engine of profit-driven exploitation depends on a thornier set of debates that shape how pornography is understood.
Investment banking is now the engine of profits, and those operations are based in London and New York.
Investment banking has been the engine of profits in recent years, but this is the bit of banking where new rules bear down particularly hard (and may bite even harder if Germany were to consider a separation of retail and wholesale activities).In their defence, Messrs Fitschen and Jain can point to two strengths.
Management and golf pros discovered carts were engines of profit that didn't carry the figurative baggage of tax or labor issues.
The point is that even deranged loners -- sometimes especially they -- are often quite acute in picking up signals being sent by our real assailants, the mindless engines of profit or of the malevolent ones of ressentiment that are pumping this mistrust and fear into our national bloodstream.
In a book called "The Diversity Bargain," another scholar, Natasha K. Warikoo, concludes that students at Harvard have fully internalized the logic of diversity as an engine of mutual profit.
Elsewhere Weitz has been quoted as saying that the producers of New Moon "understand the importance of the books – have read the books and appreciate them – and don't just see them as engines of possible profit".
It was part of the company's painful journey to what might be called "post-monopoly prosperity" — that is, a new path to corporate success once a dominant product is no longer the turbocharged engine of growth and profit it once was.
First, with inflation low, the scope to raise prices limited and cost-cutting opportunities already exploited, increasing market share has become the engine of growth in profits.
Describing the changes in AOL's business, Mr. Case said he believed that online advertising, once the principal engine of AOL's profits and growth, would become less important than other sources of revenue, like subscriptions, fees for premium services and sales of goods and services to members online.
