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'Farming works if the price of the poached product falls sufficiently so that poaching is no longer profitable, ' he said.

As a profitable construction project, the investor must analysis and forecast if it has a competitive ability to fend off the risks.

When popular opinion is nearly unanimous, contrary thinking tends to be most profitable.

Real estate investing requires long term considerations as it is neither easy to purchase nor easy to sell profitable properties quickly.

Carlos Ghosn vowed to make Nissan -- which had been losing money for years -- into a profitable, globally competitive company again.

An alms of fish can only cope with one's meal. But if you taught him the skill of fishing, it would be profitable to him for lifetime.

The company said it isn't like to be profitable in Europe this year as it had previously forecast.

The Michigan Assembly Plant was one of the most profitable plants of the late 1990s, building the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator.

The pick-up in local prices made importing copper into China profitable, pushing up benchmark prices in London, they said.

The company is one of the few profitable agribusinesses in an industry that remains stranded in the Dark Ages.

my god , grant me that in his presence i may see more clearly my own vileness and act so that it may be profitable to him too.

A person familiar with the matter said the paper was profitable.

His departure also raises the question of whether the firm's film and television assets will be as well-managed and profitable in future.

It then used its profitable physical store locations to benefit its Total Access online rental program, which had a more promising future.

Now this seems to me to be a very profitable approach, not just to art but to the history of philosophy.

In 2000 it became part of Vodafone and is still one of its most profitable units, thanks in part to his early work.

The Song dynasty was one of the most typical and serious period whose army engaged profitable management in the feudal society of China.

Borders said the store closures will leave the company with a 'sizable core' of profitable stores.

There is no use in investing a great deal of money into something that might not turn out to be profitable.

Either way, we appear to be in the early stages of a strong economic recovery and one that could prove very profitable for investors.

have their own authors, if it is possible to write a novel with a conforming to the market trends go profitable to!

A year ago, at the height of the financial panic, the world yearned for a profitable and confident financial sector.

Drinks are the most profitable part of the business and even high-end restaurants are trying to cash in.

It lost more money than it earned. The company was no longer profitable. It did not take long before my friend's dishonesty was discovered.

But this relates more to a general drive by Barclays to get out of less profitable businesses than a reflection on Russia.

We wish to establish friendly business relations with you to enjoy a share of mutually profitable business.

The bank maintained that its first-quarter performance so far is "solidly profitable" and capital is "strong" .

This had been a strain on the cash flow of a small firm, though the project was profitable for them overall.

These activities seem to be far more profitable than the humdrum business of managing payments and channelling savings towards investment.

We would be so glad to start a very profitable business with your goos company.

But is the company more profitable than if it had used an accelerated method? The answer is no !

Psychological research on cognitive fluency shows why easy to understand = more profitable, more pleasurable, more intelligent and safer.

It is not difficult to see that the Shanghai Composite Index has won the world's most profitable title index is well deserved.

Mr. Kuo added that music search was profitable but had never been a source of major traffic.

It has in recent years been expanding its lending in urban areas, a more profitable business for the bank.

But before Chrysler goes public again, Mr. Whiston said he would like to see 'a year or two of profitable results. '

Even though Skype is a massive (and disruptive) presence in Internet communications, it has never been very profitable.

But such "downcycling" tends to be much less profitable than genuine recycling, and much more vulnerable to price swings.

They refuse to acknowledge that the news business is no longer as profitable as it once was, nor will it likely ever be so again.

GM filed for court protection from creditors after spending months trying to restructure its business plan to become profitable.

It is the creativity and the dedication of the workers and executives that turned the company into a profitable business.

And with interest rates at 0. 5% for more than two years, leaving your cash in the bank has not proved to be a massively profitable option.

HSBC defended its pay plans, pointing out that it had not taken taxpayers' money during the crisis and had been profitable.

While there may be a few complete frauds out there, many of these companies might have real, profitable businesses that have real value.

We hope that this will be a good start for the long and profitable business realation between us.

The term is often used loosely to describe any investment that looks suspiciously profitable.

Mortgage lending is still profitable, yet in June it was 3% lower than a year earlier, while net consumer borrowing fell for a second month.

Although licensing may be the least profitable way of entering a market, the risks and headaches are less than those for direct investments.

The official added that "this does not mean the firms has to be profitable but clearly . . . the firms have to be profitable soon. "

That deal exposed the kind of faulty logic that allows a money-losing internet firm to get the better of a profitable media giant.

Sometimes, just filling thefirst- and business- class sections are enough to make it a profitable flight.

The company emerged from that recession more profitable than ever and went on to outperform many tech rivals.

The company has had a very profitable year, but large sums have to be put aside to meet.

Mr Goyal says Jet remained profitable during the struggle that has since ensued, but there is no hiding how much it suffered.

Mr. Brown got involved in a very profitable business and was good enough to let several of his colleagues in on it.

But it's not likely to be a very profitable meal, and it has costs: extra strain on the kitchen, extra product to the tables.

That helped prompt the realisation that exchanges, most of which had previously been run as mutual associations, can be very profitable.

0 His disciples said to Him, If the case of the man with his wife is like this, it is not profitable to marry.

When we met a week later he reported that he had four profitable days out of five and was profitable overall.

Meanwhile the question remains of how Rio did not spot corruption in one of its most profitable markets.

His company, however, ended up in the red. It lost more money than it earned. The company was no longer profitable.

Within financial institutions, there was no incentive to challenge practices that appeared to be profitable.

That said, the business model for Monteverdi is intended to be self-sustaining rather than profitable.

So being in Asia would mean being closer to the company's most-profitable clients, in the area where it is likely to see the fastest growth.

Sequoia went on to urge the executives to cut costs fast so that their firms would not run out of money before becoming profitable.

For News Corp this was an attractive opportunity to consolidate the cash flows of a mature and profitable business.

Close deals that have been up in the air and move on to new ones that appear to be profitable.

Unlike Facebook, it has also found a way to turn this into a massively profitable business.

When he had gazed long enough he knew that it would be a profitable day.

It had a few customers and was quite profitable.

Where is the most profitable place for a materials firm to position itself; as a powder maker, or higher up the value chain as an ink maker?

In 2008, when nearly every other strategy lost money, it was one of the most profitable trading tactics, according to market participants.

Consulting firms are popping up to help clients design profitable auctions or win them less expensively.

This approach both put the customer in charge and was more profitable for magazine companies.

And whatever was chosen had to be at least technically feasible, if not immediately profitable.

Mr. Immelt said the finance arm will shrink to concentrate on more-profitable sectors that are better connected to other GE businesses.

For the business to be profitable, each relationship manager needs to attract at least $200m in assets, he adds.

So again, how much are you willing to pay for good (read: profitable) advice?

The site is monetized by ads (Tagworld seems to be their biggest advertiser), although there's no word on whether they're profitable yet.

And that, in turn, helps preserve the no-cost nature of the Net by making ad-supported Web sites more profitable.

It is often said that the first bite is the sweetest and the first market entrant is the most profitable.

More fundamentally, it reflects different views about the extent to which consumers can be steered towards the most profitable products.

The company was no longer profitable.

Both firms realised that digital photography itself would not be very profitable.

"These incentives will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy, " he said.

Markets might have treated this as evidence of a lack of imagination, or a paucity of profitable projects.

black friday may be a profitable time for sellers , but it is no longer the biggest shopping day of the year.

The new owners closed two cheaper but profitable lines, Jeans and Bazar, and raised prices for ready-to-wear.

That scalp business hasn't turned out at all profitable, and I've pretty much concluded to give it up, and to follow a less bloody calling.

You will also help me to a place were the money will be establish a more profitable business venture in your Country.

Any business, and its ultimate goal of production and operation Are to be profitable, but profit must obtain the cost of certain costs.

Thus, the only possible way to help the poor is to provide jobs that are profitable.

After 16 years of owning my own business, I finally realized it wasn't profitable to do it all.

The troupe has yet to be profitable, but Copeland said he has found other rewards along the way.

According to the request of the company director, management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work.

But the investment looks as if it will be highly profitable.

Like the Advertiser &Times, the group is still profitable despite the economic slump, and the resemblance goes further.

Developers need to realize that if the company is profitable, these people at the top must be doing something right.

With that amount of money I should be able to engage in some profitable business.

But let the word profitable be taken here in the common sense as said of things of the middle kind, neither good nor bad.

A few days after his advertisement appears, the mail order writer knows whether it is profitable or not.

I struggle to understand how speculation is supposed to be both profitable and destabilising, all at once.

Ms. Tahara says the company is profitable. Theirs is the only agency in Tokyo that caters exclusively to working women in their 30s.

"I need to understand the potential of the company, its different markets and where it is more profitable, " he told the Financial Times.

But residents hope that the sea (with the moon's help) may still offer something profitable and a bit more predictable.

Emerging-market banks say this activity is not very profitable anyway, but they are bound to miss it if it goes.

However, Kevin tells Dan that he has just found out about an investment opportunity that might be very profitable.

The main stumbling block is the regulatory requirement that they be profitable for at least three years prior to listing.

A key question ahead of next week's analyst meeting is the extent to which GE Capital can be profitable this year.

Ghosn beat his own schedule for making Nissan profitable, and, following a series of three-year plans, made into a serious contender again.

The miners found other profitable minerals as well and continued to mine for many years.

It is often profitable to stir controversy.

All talk; no action. He also thinks nuclear war is profitable. He'll go down on his own stupidity.

And if the ecosystems were more chaotic than he might have liked, they were also more powerful and more profitable.

A company's most profitable response to piracy depends on what sort of consumers it is facing.

Choosing whether to go with a risky but potentially profitable new product design or continue with an established design .

So while it may be profitable to run a public company, it seems less sensible to own shares in one relative to a private company.

These ideals, he maintains, are the reason the company is profitable in every country in which it operates.

years of labor on a ditch, known in Niger as a zai, became not just socially worthwhile but personally profitable.

Like the school network, users get fixed and the traffic is very large, do not rely on search engine Baidu is still profitable.

"Airlines need to be sustainably profitable to be able to invest in their people, their product and continue to serve markets, " he says.

Porsche, a maker of sports cars, was on the ropes in the early 1990s but is now one of Europe's most profitable companies.

One of the surprises in the initial prospectus is how small and profitable this business is said to be.

A change of the financial environment will stimulate a search by financial institutions for innovations that are likely to be profitable.

While its individual equipment sales to solar makers are profitable, its SunFab lines have continued to post losses.

He had made a profitable deal with a businessman to do a gymnastic exhibition on the beach near the gulf.

Banks were often profitable enough to afford big IT teams, writing programs themselves rather than buying off the shelf.

Directly responsible for the banquet & meeting room area, ensuring a smooth running, profitable operation within the framework of the Hotel.

this job is not very profitable in terms of cash earnings , but i ' m getting valuable experience from it.

The solution, he thought, was for GE to sell part of its highly profitable aircraft-leasing business.

The company estimated that it remained profitable so far in the first quarter.

Evan Williams, who has headed the company since 2008, is being replaced to allow him to focus on ways of making Twitter more profitable.

Since then, it had to withdraw their free offerings to concentrate on remaining profitable.

Owners have been trying to figure out how to make their teams more profitable -- they say some are losing money.

The point I'm making is simply this: Teaching is a very, very profitable business, especially in the blogosphere.

Wilderness in those days was a commodity to be tamed and brought to profitable service, not admired for its own sake.

The results showed that this production technology of biodiesel was feasible and profitable.

Directly responsible for the restaurant area, ensuring a smooth running, profitable operation within the framework of the hotel.

Growth slowed in international express deliveries, the company's most profitable business , while fuel and maintenance costs increased .

IBM has a financial "roadmap" telling investors how profitable it intends to be in the next five years and how it will get there.

I have made it sufficiently profitable to enable its proprietors to live like the gentlemen and ladies they were now become.

"You have the iron ore price going up, and that rise being sustainable, making lower-grade deposits profitable, " he said.

Soul-sucking work was at least once a dependably secure and profitable enterprise.

Chinese banks are reporting a profitable 2008, but investors need to be wary of the surface glitter.

Until it filed its S-1 on last Thursday, the conventional wisdom was that Groupon was a profitable company.

This was a profitable strategy until the crisis in subprime US mortgages and securitised finance undermined investor confidence.

The trade of a butcher is a brutal and an odious business; but it is in most places more profitable than the greater part of common trades.

The work is not very profitable in terms of money, but I am getting valuable experience from it.

That means that the provision of credit will be "quite profitable for some time now" , he said.

And Microsoft continues to be enormously profitable, thanks to its operating system monopoly.

Hypo Real Estate was Germany's largest property lender: it is hard to think of a duller but more profitable dominant position.

But Executive Editor Bill Keller says the Times is still profitable and had a billion page views on its Web site in October.

Some retail banks require depositors to put equal amounts of money into other, more profitable, products.

Whether it proves to be a profitable way of conquering the mobile search business is an open question.

The goal of any business, generally, is to be profitable.

Market makers were promised high bonuses for any "trading ideas" that turned out to be profitable, the filing alleges.

Much of that money comes from China's resurgent state enterprises, now hugely profitable and dominant in key industries.

Managers are forced to "cannibalize" their own profitable businesses only to see a diminished return on investment.

The company will want to put strong resources into its more profitable businesses and phase down or drop its weaker ones.

A wave of refinancing that will hit private-equity-owned firms over the next few years may prove profitable for distressed-debt funds.

Unrestrained passions flow at month end allowing you to create reconciliations and negotiating workable, profitable agreements.

Trade between countries can be profitable for both, even if one of the countries can produce every commodity more cheaply.

A company with a strong logo and visual identity is taking the first step in building an established and profitable brand.

Once you've been there a while, you learn that certain things are profitable, and no contact is the first rule you learn to break.

Retail banking in Britain will probably become a lot more boring, quite a bit safer and somewhat less profitable.

'We never stopped being profitable, but the banks that we are dealing with are in trouble, so they're not funding us, ' he said.

If the scheme is to be profitable, software will eventually have to be written to link computers to omnipresent mobile phones.

Where companies aren't profitable , you're going to hear they're reinvesting in their platform.

Ensure the Spa and facilities operates successfully and is individually profitable in accordance with the standard of the hotel.

Some suspect that its opposition stems from the fear that many expensive and profitable pills would be found to be of dubious value.

China's top Internet companies are profitable and growing fast but are only beginning to expand abroad.

Given how profitable and crowded the markets are, 'once the liquidation begins, you don't know how far it will run, ' he said.

Indeed, next year's tournament may turn out to be the most profitable yet, thanks to the sale of broadcasting rights.

Today, Microsoft's server software division is a comfortably profitable business, with $16 billion a year in revenue.

These pay a fixed rate of interest but only if the bank is profitable.

When you lock in profits with a new trailing stop, your risk on this profitable trade is no longer 2%.

This would have been a profitable strategy in recent years.

Trying new types of exercise can be a chance during the holidays, and even activities yoga or pilates can be profitable.

What resources are needed to turn this into a profitable product?

A still small voice, deep within you, now wants to offer you wise and potentially profitable guidance. Don't be too busy to hear it.

I'm not a very profitable customer, but would you be so good as to allow me to take one straw from the bundle?

It also said that China was "on the verge of becoming both profitable and a meaningful part of our long-term growth" .

It is a typical huge system. Thus, it will be very profitable to analyze and optimize such a large system.

By August 2004, Ms Gr? f says, her business had become so profitable she was the richest person in Second Life.

For a lucky few CEOs, having a hobby has turned out to be rather profitable.

They viewed these plans as an attempt to take a profitable market from Britain.

You must keep in mind that even with a tested and profitable system, you could have numerous losses in a row.

if the iron be blunt , and he do not whet the edge , then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Such films are profitable partly because their stars do not expect to be paid much, if anything.

If it is the latter and scientists are just greedy and after a profit, why can't they work on a more profitable common understanding?

We wish to establish friendly business relations wish you to enjoy a share of mutually profitable business.

Oyu Tolgoi is expected to be hugely profitable after it enters full production at the end of this decade.

Britain's national network has never been profitable, and in the years since privatisation costs have exploded.

Cost leadership will in turn convert to a more favorable market position in pricing and put company in a more profitable operation.

His experiments soon became world famous because not only were they humane, but they were also for a time exceedingly profitable.

The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made.

If not well managed and organized, the big event may not be so profitable, and the new facilities may be forever empty after the games.

Investors are looking for companies that can deliver high levels of sustained profitable growth -- but cutting costs can only do so much.

It is an energy-intensive process that until recently cost too much to be profitable.

In general, only less than one-fifth of all new products turn out to be profitable.

Obviously, the business must be profitable, and you must have a strong management team with a carefully chosen market niche.

Like Gruen, he claims to be trying to create not just profitable shopping places but also more perfect city centres.

This experience no longer has to be acquired in a profitable business which will simplify application processing procedures.

If GE isn't as profitable as it used to be, why should the stock trade at $40 a share again anytime soon?

This practice is known as site flipping and can make you a tidy sum of money if you know how to build an attractive and profitable website.

The old-line firm just wasn't sure that the fledgling microcomputer market would be at all profitable.

Here's a look at five top hobbies you might consider turning into a profitable home business.

You failed to use the Big Board's enviable share of the global cash-equities market to move into the more profitable derivatives business.

The work is not very profitable in terms of cash, but I can get valuable experience from it.

Profit and loss critical point: the stock exchange trading volume basis points more than it would be profitable, otherwise losses.

Dell spokeswoman says the company is focused on profitable growth rather than undercutting rivals to gain market share.

Privately , exchanges see opportunity in a well of discontent among some of the more profitable bank customers , particularly hedge funds .

Huge swathes of the wholesale industry's product offering (including some of its most profitable areas) have disappeared.

"We have been profitable every month this year, " he said.

It may be intellectual Swiss cheese, but it's far too profitable for Wall Street to let it go.

The yen has been pushed down in recent months by the highly profitable "carry trade" .

This would make it harder for companies to specialize in larger vehicles that may consume more fuel but may also be more profitable.

The interest is not favorable, so it's not profitable to deposit money in the bank.

Business has shown that improving energy efficiency can be very profitable.

In 1990 it had one of its most profitable years.

Finally, it's not exciting to talk about, but Yahoo has tremendous market power and a long profitable future through simple inertia.

In early 2010, the company was profitable, then it embarked on its aggressive expansion to stay ahead of competitors.

But once the blade is in the field it is up to the cutting operator to apply a blade to the job-at-hand in a profitable manner.

Almost none of the carbon dioxide is captured, partly because there is no profitable way of using it.

Though Falvey says his career change has been a profitable one, duct cleaning isn't exactly for everyone.

The result of this burgeoning demand: a highly profitable commercial real estate market.

They are crammed with a great deal of information and we use this for a profitable career.

Adjusting goods structure, finding the most profitable products during sales, and further adjusting the goods structure on the basis of it.

One of the main purposes of implementing a CRM program is to retain the profitable customers.

"We're profitable, " he said. "We're not wildly profitable, but we're paying our bills. "

Consumers who know a firm is highly profitable are more likely to believe its products are high-quality and its advertising honest.

For the studios it is much more profitable to stream a film digitally or sell it through a cable operator as a video-on-demand (VOD).

It appears that Tube Lines' shareholders sold up because the firm was no longer as profitable as they had hoped.

Although these suggested there might be oil, further exploration was not then seen as profitable.

But companies soon discovered that selling proprietary software can be a very profitable business.

Real estate the company see profitable, seizing an opportunity the residence that big temple construct low price.

Half of the Fiestas sold by Ford in Europe come with the top-of-the-range Titanium specification and are decently profitable, he says.

Diversification is a means for exchanges to benefit from fast-growing or especially profitable parts of the financial markets.

I wrote this book to help make your passage a little smoother, faster, less painful, and more profitable.

The system was redesigned to embrace the network and eventually steer it in a profitable direction.

The controller's office should make an estimate of the costs of quality to identify areas where quality improvements would be profitable .

Other financial institutions, whether or not called banks, would carry on paying interest and looking for more profitable investments.

The entrepreneurs laid the first tunnels, operated the first lines, and showed that it was a profitable enterprise.

Despite the economic downturn the company has been highly profitable this year, making $3bn in the last quarter.

equity arising from profitable operations is called retained earnings.

It was just too profitable to issue these mortgages. So eyes were closed and the money kept pouring in.

After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company once again fell on difficult times.

These past several years have been very profitable, but I feel a need to refocus on buying and selling high-end fine goods.

Next year the company expects it to be profitable.

I can tell you this: the 'pay what you want' idea can be suprisingly and dumbfoundingly profitable.