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This could mean plowing back profits to fuel community projects, adopting eco-friendly practices through the supply chain, or even designing products and services that tackle specific societal issues.
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Goro Gupta, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Biden’s budget proposes a massive $5 trillion in new taxes over the decade, but nearly all of these revenues would be plowed back into new policies rather than deficit reduction, thus making future deficit reduction more difficult by having to start from an even higher tax level.
—Brian Riedl, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024
Large companies, Schumpeter realized, acted as engines of innovation, plowing back some of their profits into research and development and encouraging others to do the same in the hopes of becoming an acquisition target.
—Jerry Z. Muller, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
In other parts of the world success is rewarded with additional TV revenue and big-money purses for qualifying for continental tournaments, money those teams can plow back into their rosters, assuring the rich continue to get richer.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
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Goro Gupta, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Biden’s budget proposes a massive $5 trillion in new taxes over the decade, but nearly all of these revenues would be plowed back into new policies rather than deficit reduction, thus making future deficit reduction more difficult by having to start from an even higher tax level.
—Brian Riedl, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024
Large companies, Schumpeter realized, acted as engines of innovation, plowing back some of their profits into research and development and encouraging others to do the same in the hopes of becoming an acquisition target.
—Jerry Z. Muller, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
In other parts of the world success is rewarded with additional TV revenue and big-money purses for qualifying for continental tournaments, money those teams can plow back into their rosters, assuring the rich continue to get richer.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
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“Plow back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plow%20back. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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