Some dissident shareholders met at the New York offices of Providence Capital yesterday after the market closed to see if they could force Kodak to show why other alternatives -- say, spinning off digital businesses -- would not be better than trying to wrest profit from them.
"Essentially, OPEC wants to wrest the profit margin from [the oil-consuming countries'] governments".
For £20,000 in cash, plus shares of equal worth, £650 in annual rent, bribes to notables and 16 percent of net profits, D'Arcy's envoys wrested from the Shah of Persia a contract valid for 60 years and covering 480,000 square miles (nearly twice the size of Texas).
Drastically simplified, the vision was of an atomised entrepreneurialism in which as many individuals as possible pursued the goal of profit, so as to wrest capital accumulation from both a few vastly powerful interests (such as "Jewish banking families") and a monolithic socialist state.
Nebraska is considering a constitutional amendment to create eight state-run casinos, and in California, the governor is trying to wrest a bigger share of Indian tribes' gambling profits.
The bankers were guaranteed millions of dollars in profits for themselves if they could wrest the valuable investment away from NatWest and sell it to Southampton for a fraction of its true worth.
It may take the form of a profits squeeze, caused by militant labour wresting gains from capital, or by factors depressing the rate of profit, or by too little demand.
They are also a democratic outcry, demanding that justice finally be done — and an attempt by a nation to wrest control from failed leaders who have consistently put personal profit over national interest.
Profit taking, spending concerns and economic data dominated last week, allowing the bears to wrest control from the bulls for only the second time in the prior 10 weeks.
In both cases, the aim is to wrest water supplies away from localities and set up a distribution system that simultaneously turns a profit and forces people to become dependent on others for a basic need.
