51. Networks, under enormous pressure to maximize dwindling profits, have been focusing on the more numerous and generally more affluent white households that advertisers prefer. 52. One simple bot, for example, uses trial and error to raise or lower prices incrementally in an effort to maximize profits. 53. One promising approach is based on reinforcement learning, in which agents learn optimal pricing policies that maximize long-term profits. 54. Only in that way will patients be somewhat protected from the miserly machinations of managed care that sell our health care to lowest bidders to maximize business profit. 55. Policy analysts and prisoner advocates worry that private contractors, like Corrections Corp., will run bare-bones prisons to maximize profits. 56. Recently honored by the National Academy of Scientists, Anderson revolutionized his global carpet business to make it a model of environmental efficiency while maximizing profits. 57. Rubin described the retailer defendants as powerful multinational companies cooperating with Saipan factory owners to maintain a cheap, controllable labor force in order to maximize profits. 58. Slowly building a credit history, the Abasovs built their family businesses, taking new loans to expand into areas that could help maximize profits. 59. Single diners may not maximize profits initially, but they may be instrumental in creating new business. 60. Shootouts and classics and made-for-television confrontations, created to maximize profits and encouraged for recruiting purposes, can only serve to confuse us. |