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That makes the greed motive work against itself, since profit maximising is the chief, if not the only, prompt for action in the financial markets.
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The profit motive works in odd ways, however.
Thomas Berglund, Capio's president, says the "profit motive works in healthcare" and companies run on "capitalism, not altruism".
In the hands of many advocates of privatisation, this puzzle is turned into a knock-down refutation: if the profit motive works well in providing something as vital as food, it must work well everywhere.
The profit motive worked to the Frost's extreme disadvantage.
And he noted, in this case at least, security experts have a motive to work with.
Others say there is a more sinister motive at work, because to remember is to hold to account, and the Communist Party doesn't want that.
Suddenly we're right?" Mr. Aravosis and other critics of Chief Ramsey see another motive at work in his sudden declaration of an emergency: job protection.
But there may be another motive at work here: providing free screening brings in new cancer patients, and cancer generates profits.
You may not have heard of it yet, but there is a similar motive at work behind Smarterer.
With absolutely no motive to work with, police were unable to solve the crime until Faust's boasting came full circle.
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