"For its investment, Novartis reaped dramatically increased profits on these drugs, and Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs were left holding the bag".
Align asserts that orthodontists using Invisalign have increased profits on the order of 30percentt because, without the need to adjust braces, they need less "chair time" for each patient.
Indeed, said Mr. Freidfertig, many new houses have improved property values in neighborhoods, and the very people who complain about the McMansions next door often enjoy increased profits on their homes when they sell.
We are certainly not increasing profits on the back of lower wholesale gas prices.
Store buyers are even now beginning to negotiate with manufacturers here and in Asia -- reconfiguring design, altering colors and figuring out ways to increase profits on individual items.
Five years ago it warned that the "neat division of the market" allowed assemblers to adopt a "strategy of increasing profits on limited production instead of increasing volumes".
He emphasized that the commission was still investigating whether energy companies had withheld power to drive up prices or had manipulated prices to increase profits on financial derivatives whose value was tied to electricity or natural gas costs.
The complaint, filed in Federal District Court in Columbus, Ohio, is the latest by the commission as part of an investigation into accusations last year that natural gas traders at large power and gas companies were providing false information about prices to publishers of indexes, like Platts, to increase profits on their transactions.
The Teamsters, too, have taken a stand against businesses seeking to increase profits on the back of workers.
The company's programs to help patients afford the drugs weren't charities, but a way to increase profits on their monopolies.
