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Activities that have large starting capital requirements are pursued by relatively few people but yield lucrative returns.

In this transition from character to commodity, comics became partially removed from an aesthetic appreciation of the art to a lucrative business asset.

The circle of intervention and dependence justifies the personnel, budget, and lucrative retirement positions for top officials after they leave the ministry.

The second consisted of companies which were floated specifically to funnel lucrative government contracts on commission, or in anticipation of bank loans that never materialised.

Other lucrative areas were to be found in land grabbing, urban real estate, and the exploitation of tax loopholes.

As farming became less lucrative, the government found itself having to put in large amounts of resources in the irrigation sector.

In order to secure these potentially lucrative contracts, newspapers had to promise access to audiences interested in the empire.

These supermarkets purchase produce only from large-scale growers, leaving the small farmer with the traditional markets, now less lucrative and serving fewer people.

In this context, the control of houses and farms was potentially very lucrative, and women heirs were not a particularly powerful group.

Thus, evil people in the coastal provinces regard minting coin as a lucrative enterprise, mixing lead and copper with fine silver to mint foreign coin.

Only occasionally did women of privileged status participate in this lucrative trade.

This is legitimate, yet it may mean that the public sector is thinned out, as the most interesting and lucrative activities disappear.

Not all such business dealings, however, were equally lucrative.

Moreover, the war overseas could be financially lucrative.

While these offices hold the highly lucrative and coveted authority, office-holders are poorly paid, easy to be manipulated by gangsters through bribery.