It was rumored that cellar proprietors preserved profits by slipping a bad oyster to customers who were eating too many.

Some industry analysts dismiss the idea that development of debit cards has been retarded to preserve profits on credit cards.

The intention, they say, is to protect the civil rights of smokers, not to preserve profits.

The confidence in the stock market may be nothing more than the attempt by mutual fund managers to preserve short-term profits and fund-performance record.

Reltoc has become the flashpoint of industry's efforts in Eufaula to hold down costs to preserve profits and meet foreign competition.

A monopoly can preserve excess profits because barriers to entry prevent competitors from entering the market.

Either that or companies will raise prices to preserve profits, pushing up the until- now languid inflation rate.

Corporate America, after jettisoning workers by the millions to preserve profits, is sitting on billions of dollars of cash.

Unable to get price increases for a great variety of goods, they have preserved profits by cutting costs, especially labor costs.

I imagine the reason the police take this interest is due to the gambling industry lobbying the govt to preserve there profits.