"The most probable thing is that EuroVegas provides profits for a very few while causing irreversible environmental damage".
Last year E4 and Film4 triumphantly turned the corner, providing profits for the first time, while More4 broke even.
But, she said, if the NHS were so reorganised that she were then asked to suffer the same degree of overwork to provide profits for some rip-off private health company, she would walk away and refuse.
For Poirier, the key message was that R&D groups have a mandate of innovation and discovery, whereas the marketing division's mandate is to do what is necessary to sell the drug and provide profits for the company shareholders.
These are people who get to work every day, who perform duties prescribed by their employers, and whose production provides profits for the companies employing them.
Those acquainted with the Health and Social Care Act know that it isn't written to improve service delivery, but to provide profit streams for investors, insurers and hospital chains.
Federated said it would not provide profit forecasts for the second half of the year until its pending $11 billion deal to acquire May Department Stores was completed.
For a brief period in 2012, the subcommittee said, JPMorgan stopped providing profit and loss reports for the investment bank to the comptroller's office.
Enron will break out more information on business segments and geographic results, he said, but he also said the company would probably not provide profit and loss numbers for natural gas and electricity -- by far the biggest products it trades.
Although the East India fleets that returned annually with cargoes of spices and other valuables provided huge profits for the shareholders, the East India trade of the 17th and 18th centuries never provided more than a modest fraction of Dutch earnings from European trade.
