Second, while dollar figures (expressed in profits, harms, and even philanthropy) have dominated the headlines, should we be paying more attention to non-monetary remedies?
To help distribute naloxone, pharmaceutical companies that manufacture naloxone have made good will naloxone donations to select police departments, non-profits, harm reduction centers as well as community centers; yet that is not a long-term solution.
"I would have been surprised five years ago," said Meeson, who is the director of Quebec women's substance abuse prevention organization Elixir, and also works with non-profit harm reduction group GRIP Montreal.
In the Court's words, "Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products".
And when the judge issued his findings of fact in November, he found that Microsoft had "demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products".
"Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products," Jackson wrote in his decision, released late Friday.
He finds that taxes on immovable property harm growth the least and those on corporate profits hurt it most.
But of the expanded assistance plan, Mike Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times says, "at heart it's a cynical move that actually protects the company's profits and harms the health care system..
"Profit, often by law, is its first priority and that will always lead to at least some decisions that maximise profits while minimising harm to the animals, rather than maximising animal welfare while minimising harm to investors.
Companies that destroy the world for privatised profits and socialised harm are amoral or immoral.
In Dallas, many companies, especially those in high-tech manufacturing, said uncertainty about events in Japan and the Middle East would hit their business and could harm profits.
