Indeed, while the executives at Yahoo, Google, Cisco and Microsoft deserved to be taken to task for their complicity in Beijing's determination to censor information, they would have been justified in noting that every U.S. corporation that goes to China is linked to, and almost invariably profits from, that nation's suppression of fundamental rights.
Rising interest rates will invariably squeeze banks' profit margins and reduce the value of some lenders' own investments.
The desire to chase profit invariably wins out over the responsibility to inform the public.
Studies of such mega-events, financed by their sponsors, invariably estimate huge profits, later declaring little more than "goodwill and reputational gain".
But markets and quasi-markets – in effect the Tories are marketising schools even though the providers aren't, as yet, allowed to make profits – invariably lead to consolidation.
Fictitious trades were created and executed, and profits (invariably) were entered into fictitious accounts.
Worse, the assumption that new traffic invariably translated into additional profits proved faulty.
On the contrary, however, creating and maintaining a website that serves as a file-sharing platform not only brings no profit but it invariably requires time, effort and, in most cases, the commitment of personal resources.
Once a mobile manufacturer starts losing revenue and profit, it is invariably too late to save the company's long-term position in the market.
After all, it's profits would have invariably suffered if the world started treating global warming seriously.
As a university professor teaching Principles Microeconomics, we invariably talk about production, costs, and profit maximization.
