Public Citizen is not anti-trade or anti-prosperity, but we object to a global trading system that makes corporate profits paramount.
Refugees become numbers to be processed; the profit motive is paramount in the minds of many multinationals.
The recognition of the power of generosity is starting to make inroads into the world of business, where the traditional notion of profits being of paramount importance to the exclusion of all else, is starting to disintegrate.
"In an international perspective, euro-area banks' capital buffers remain low and profit retention will be paramount, much like it was in 2009".
I hope my experience illustrates why personal safety should always be paramount to profit.
Though it swung to a profit, Viacom's film unit, Paramount, had a revenue decline of almost 10 percent, in part because it continued to be dragged down by weaker DVD sales.
Examples for profitability in business & finance were "A person or a company a) tries constantly to optimize the relationship between revenue and expenditure, b) defines success as the pursuit of profit, and c) grants a paramount importance to key financial indicators".
But these concerns just aren't paramount in the minds of profit-oriented executives.
Jets, Robots and Profits Like the managers of Berwyn and FPA Paramount, John S. Sheehy of the Fidelity Select Defense and Aerospace Portfolio pores over financial statements to winnow candidates for investment.
Campaigners say it is of paramount public interest to know how many profit-making businesses are involved in using labour from forced work schemes.
