legitimate profit

This was the only way Ponzi had to pay off those investors, as he made no effort to generate legitimate profits.

The Jennings companies also reap an ample legitimate profit, since the guns cost less than $20 to produce.

In which case you will naturally add something to the sum you actually gave to the monk and so make a legitimate profit."

THE book stops abruptly at the end of 1997, when AOL turned its first legitimate profit.

You could make billions in legitimate profits selling the apparatus to manufacture the energy ... but you wouldn't want that.

He obviously sides with Government-sponsored developers who have been shown by the Mayans that one can make a legitimate profit by selling to tourists.

Lundberg, in particular, viewed the enterprise as a chance to build a "people-oriented organization whose members worked hard but also had some fun while earning a legitimate profit."

Money laundering is generally defined as the practice of taking illegally obtained gains and passing them through a series of bank transactions so they appear as legitimate profits.

As a result, villagers in the three southern African states are coming to regard herds of elephants which will be legally culled as a source of legitimate profit.

I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.

His chances of a legitimate profit depended on the price he had to pay for his supplies, but he was a monopoly seller with a good market, and no doubt usually gained.

Money laundering is a catch phrase for the criminal practice of taking ill-gotten gains and moving them through a sequence of bank accounts so they ultimately look like legitimate profits from legal businesses.

Klaw, who acted as the spokesman for the Syndicate, was quoted as saying, "The Theatrical Syndicate has brought order out of chaos, legitimate profit out of ruinous rivalry."

To deprive the hotel of its legitimate profit it was decided that Mr. Topper should engage a large room and that the others should, as the Colonel tactfully phrased it, "join him there."

It was like him, to unload a suite of offices on someone who would pay the freight - in this case, the M.S.A. Probably Purnell would take what he considered a legitimate profit on the deal.

For the rest of the journey I was petted like a sick child; he lent me newspapers, thus depriving himself of his legitimate profit on their sale, and came repeatedly to sit by me and cheer me up.

In Jersey and Guernsey, laws were passed to confiscate retrospectively the financial gains made by war profiteers and black marketeers, although these measures also affected those who had made legitimate profits during the years of military occupation.

The remaining liquor was pulled out, the hotel was paper-sold to a. legit front man, and new employees were brought in who didn't know a thing about the place's actual owners or purposes, and for six years the hotel was a sleeper, bringing the syndicate nothing but a small legitimate profit.

Indeed, when this practice is widespread, it imposes unacceptable pressures on the production system in a field with a dominant position, destroying legitimate profit margins to an unimaginable level and, consequently, the survival of small and medium-sized enterprises, which are thereby bound to make all types of concession and are subject to every type of moral pressure.