21. The extra revenue that she now generates in each hour of work can be used by the company to fatten profits or raise wages, or both. 22. The officials said that many HMOs had fattened their profits by recruiting and enrolling healthy Medicare beneficiaries, a practice known as risk selection or cherry picking. 23. The rising revenue from the sale of the additional output fattened profits, justifying yet more investment in new equipment. 24. The U.S. ethanol industry is poised for a rebound amid a bigger corn harvest this fall that will help fatten profits, the Agriculture Department said. 25. U.S. stocks are expected to open higher, boosted by confidence that economic growth will quicken later in the year, fattening corporate profits. 26. Petrocelli lambasted the move as an attempt for Simpson to fatten his profits from his videotape by delaying his deposition until after its release. |