profitable position

Left out in the cold by this, Fox now turned his attentions instead to attaining a profitable position.

Being "on the button" is therefore the most advantageous and most profitable position in poker.

"Like any company, from the efficiency point of view, we'd like to see ourselves in a profitable position, but we are realists," he said.

Prior to this, Studebaker had been placed under receivership, and the company was attempting to return to a profitable position.

Their main complaint was that the coming of the Germans had stripped them of their profitable position as traders.

In the Middle Ages it was a profitable position; among the Constable's entitlements were:

That wife, as her beauty waned, had retired into a profitable position as Didi of a house of pleasure.

When Richardson died in 1959, Connally was named as the profitable position of co-executor of the estate.

Leo Tolstoy rated A Profitable Position exceptionally high.

"If not for such a trouble that I've found myself in, there wouldn't have been A Profitable Position," Ostrovsky later said.

For example, one might sell big winners, offsetting them with more recent losers, rather than sell all the big winners while holding onto less profitable positions.

Nevertheless in retrospect A Profitable Position is seen as a milestone returning Ostrovsky back to the fray as a sharp social commentator.

Agatha Raisin retires from her profitable position as a PR agent in London, she moves to the Cotswolds expecting a peaceful country life.

Mr. Herrhausen's primary goal is to use Deutsche Bank's dominant, highly profitable position in Germany as a springboard to become a European and global giant.

The year of 1857 saw the release of A Profitable Position (Dokhodnoye mesto), rated exceptionally high by Leo Tolstoy.

It is a more profitable position than co-manager since the lead manager generally earns most of the underwriting fees and has the authority to allocate securities among other members of the syndicate.

There were some very big sellers of long-term United States Treasury securities yesterday, a sign to some traders of firms liquidating profitable positions to cover margin calls from unprofitable ones.

Ostrovsky published A Profitable Position in Russkaya Beseda because he had some unfulfilled obligations (notably, Minin had been promised and never appeared).

This appointment lasted for two years before Brummell recommended that the Foreign Office abolish the consulate at Caen in the hope of being moved to a more profitable position elsewhere.

We need to ensure that the industry is in a profitable position for these new regulations and others that will be required in the future which are extremely expensive to implement and to carry through.

The move created such an atmosphere that rival publisher and fellow LPC client Dark Horse felt moved to issue a statement to the effect that they were "in a profitable position."

Their primary motive was 'for the good of the company': that meant creating more efficiency in the productive process, cutting costs, not making unnecessary repairs, and so on, all with an eye on improving the corporate's profitable position.

In other words, if federal interest rates had not risen, the massive trading position would have been a substantially profitable position; if interest rates did rise, the trading position would result in substantial losses.

He was the administrator of the salt mines of Hall in Tirol, a highly profitable position, furthermore he was married three times to wealthy noblewomen, which enabled him to spend extravagantly on the expansion of his castle.