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While some pharmacologists dedicate their lives to searching for the cure for cancer, regardless of any monetary incentives, many are driven by the hope of securing a lucrative patent.
More often, they influence regulation by dangling before the regulator the promise of lucrative future employment.
This has been a losing battle, but has dramatically increased violence and corruption in Mexico by ensuring that drug trafficking is a lucrative business.
Was it his bad luck, I wondered, to be born too early to take part in today’s lucrative professional surfing circuit?
There could be only one explanation: the Trump connection might turn out to be highly lucrative.
On the principle that you become what you hate, these paramilitary groups have also captured a slice of the lucrative drug trade.
Trump has been true to America’s all-too-frequent willingness to place lucrative military contracts ahead of human rights, saying that he would be “very upset and angry” if Saudi Arabia were found to be responsible for Khashoggi ’s death, while ruling out a halt to big military contracts.
This will not be easy, in part because practicing in developed countries is far more lucrative than practicing in the developing world, and doctors overwhelmingly prefer to work in the countries where they have trained.
The unsurprising truth is that the company has long prioritized profit over ethics, treasuring the men who bring in the money, however badly they behave – or however flagrantly they violate the rights or dignity of their less lucrative colleagues.
Despite their commitment to speak to Russia with one voice, various EU countries negotiate with Russia bilaterally whenever possible (especially over lucrative business contracts), congregating under the EU umbrella only when necessary.
Not long ago, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it was investigating JPMorgan Chase’s hiring of princelings in Hong Kong, who apparently delivered lucrative underwriting deals for the bank.
Moreover, a recent study revealed that India’s toxic air is also dissuading executives from accepting assignments in Delhi: people are turning down lucrative jobs in order to save their lungs.
At the same time, while China represents a huge market in the ever-receding future, it has not been an especially lucrative market for Google so far.
The incentives to try to hack such accounts are obvious: not only significant publicity for hackers, but highly lucrative profit opportunities from the almost inevitable stock-market movements that will result.
They should proceed with caution, but with the expectation of tapping into a potentially lucrative new market.
Likewise, the Russians have just erased much of Iraq’s debt and agreed lucrative oil drilling deals.
As the Renaissance brought growing interest in anatomy, body snatching became a lucrative business with cadavers obtained through grave robbing, bribing hospital attendants, or even murdering beggars.
But there is a figurative goldmine – safer and potentially at least as lucrative as the real thing – that most countries possess, but few choose to exploit fully: government procurement.
Likewise, Israel’s military investments have generated a set of solutions that, with some extra effort, have had useful – and lucrative – civilian applications.
But there will also be lucrative opportunities in Algeria, Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia.
With lucrative deals at stake for the big-ticket products that drive the French economy – military hardware, nuclear power plants, and Airbus planes – France has a strong interest in a successful summit in India.
As illegal foreign fishing vessels fled our waters, Somali pirates quickly shifted their focus toward more lucrative vessels, such as cargo ships and oil tankers.
Even China’s highly lucrative and fast-growing trade with India has not curbed its rising territorial assertiveness.
And, given such riches, competition might appear lucrative at first sight.
Twiga’s approach has helped farmers access more lucrative markets, increased consumer choice, and dramatically reduced post-harvest losses and waste.
As natural resources become scarcer, Africa’s lush, mineral-rich lands are becoming more lucrative for investors seeking to maximize profits.
And, because space exploration requires communications and control over vast distances, some of the applications could also enhance South Africa’s lucrative mining sector; after all, controlling machines under the ground is similar to doing so in deep space.
Given that South Korean women tend not to hold lucrative jobs, the cost of childcare is often prohibitive.
While lucrative, this business model is closely linked to obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.
In the eyes of the Chinese public, government officials are venal, incompetent, and interested solely in getting lucrative appointments.
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