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Harrison’s Department Store

Harrison's Department Store in the Northside Shopping Center invites you to a winter clearance sale. Check these bargain prices: men’s suits - regularly one hundred and eighty dollars, now only one hundred and fifty; sport coats - regularly one hundred and twenty, now just eighty dollars. And to go along with these suits and sport coats, you’ll find dress slacks, long sleeved sport shirts and ties, all colors, all sizes, at low prices.

In the ladies’ department, better dresses have been reduced to prices as half prices. New merchandise has been added, and the selection in sizes is outstanding.

This is the greatest clearance sale that Harrison’s has ever had. Thousands of items of winter clothing are on sale.

Shop at Harrison’s in the Northside Shopping Center and save. The shop is open until six on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Open until nine – on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. Closed all day on Sundays.

Come to Harrison’s winter clearance today. Bank American and Master Charge welcome.

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pursuit, to derive, to acquire, sociologist, by means of, conscious, enterprise, antiquity, to remunerate, laborer, exploitative, to argue, critical, measure, bonus, innovation, remunerate

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Profit

The pursuit and realization of profit is an essential characteristic of capitalism. Profit is derived by selling a product for more than the cost required to produce or acquire it. Some consider the pursuit of profit to be the essence of capitalism. Sociologist and economist, Max Weber, says that "capitalism is identical with the pursuit of profit, and forever renewed profit, by means of conscious, rational, capitalistic enterprise". However, it is not a unique characteristic for capitalism, some practiced profitable barter and monetary profit has been known since antiquity.

Opponents of capitalism often protest that private owners of capital do not remunerate laborers the full value of their production but keep a portion as profit, claiming this to be exploitative. However, defenders of capitalism argue that when a worker is paid the wage for which he agreed to work, there is no exploitation, especially in a free market where no one else is making an offer more desirable to the worker; that "the full value of a worker's production" is based on his work, not on how much profit is created, something that depends almost entirely on factors that are independent of the worker's performance; that profit is a critical measure of how much value is created by the production process; that the private owners are the ones who should decide how much of the profit is to be used to increase the compensation of the workers (which they often do, as bonuses); and that profit provides the capital for further growth and innovation.

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