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He made a patent-medicine almanac into a roll and fitted it with unprofitable carefulness about his finger.

So the sale of his farm produce for money which he cannot use seems to him an unprofitable transaction.

The hotel was unprofitable and forever on the edge of failure and he wished himself out of it.

The company might have to write down its stake in the unprofitable Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) [NSN. UL] venture, Kaeser said.

It is possible that the cost of these measures for ensuring justice could make the economic activity of the polluter unprofitable.

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!

But Seiichiro Sano, Sanyo's president, insisted the company would not shed unprofitable businesses over the next three years.

It makes sense for big Western oil companies to get out of such an unprofitable business and put the capital into exploration and drilling.

But Mr Mittal said the extra cost of servicing rural customers, and their low usage levels, had made things unprofitable.

In their case, they were signing up the correct number of new customers per their corporate goals, but these customers were unprofitable.

In this it has plenty of company. Most of its main British rivals are also thought to be unprofitable, though hard data are scarce.

As a result of the productivity drive of the company, Mr. Grant wants to close down unprofitable departments.

Some experts fear that too much of the stimulus money was put into unprofitable projects and bad loans that will be exposed in a few years.

The company plans to slash unprofitable routes, along with a third of its workforce.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it has highly unprofitable to most people.

Thus, the more new customers they signed up the more unprofitable the bank became!

To the extent that private-equity groups release capital from unprofitable firms and supply it to thriving ones, so much the better.

By analyzing the cost of each service, prices can be set to maximize profits and eliminate unprofitable services.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

He doesn't spend any time trying to imagine what the market will need next; that guessing game is almost always an unprofitable exercise.

When the company filed to go public in early June, it attracted criticism for its high marketing costs and unprofitable business.

The car-rental company also froze management salaries, will close unprofitable off-airport locations and is adjusting the size of its fleet.

Ms. Lee has closed some of her unprofitable venues but says her remaining restaurants are successes.

Unprofitable plants, contracts and other liabilities that the company can no longer afford will be left behind.

Much of the investment now undertaken would be unprofitable without the artificial support provided, he argues.

Although daily deals can work for a few categories, many business owners will find that deals are unprofitable.

Compare that with the NBA, where some owners may actually prefer to forgo another unprofitable season if it results in a better deal.

In spite of two rounds of redundancies, more costs need to come out, with unprofitable units binned .

Toshiba took control of affiliates and said it would shut down unprofitable businesses.

Without a solid understanding of where your costs are in a project, the project can quickly fail and become unprofitable.

That makes processing heavy oil unprofitable for some refineries, since the gains from diesel are outweighed by losses on fuel oil.

Hynix's net loss was much worse than expected as it reflected the cost of closing its unprofitable U. S. plant.

In France, where pride in the country's industrial heritage runs deep, closing a factory - no matter how unprofitable - can be a minefield.

So also you, when you do all the things which are ordered you, say, We are unprofitable slaves; we have done what we ought to have done.

In the end, the team's winning bid leaves them with a very risky project, which is likely to fail or at the least be unprofitable.

Industry analyses will uncover these performance differences and help identify both unprofitable and profitable opportunities (situations).

In the last, the article put forward to the common process of unprofitable urban infrastructure construction, and give the relative policy.

Olympus also paid $773m for three unprofitable firms (a cosmetics company, a maker of plastic containers and a waste-disposal business).

An increase in the relative price of oil raises the costs of energy-intensive production, making some plant and machinery unprofitable.

With the important exception of sport, early attempts to deliver TV content over the web and mobile phones have proved unprofitable.

The transaction is an important step in reducing overlap in Germany's chronically unprofitable retail-banking industry.

Salad sales were hit as the company cancelled unprofitable contracts and shoppers cut back on premium purchases such as pre-washed salads.

Usually, socially oriented managerial practices such as reducing discrimination are thought to be unprofitable for a company.

Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world?

The medical institutions are to be classified in profitable and unprofitable ones.

Gone are the days of freewheeling growth built on unprofitable expansion designed to flood markets and capture market share.

Here's an idea of how unprofitable the yuan business is so far.

They want to end Gome's previous, haphazard expansion by closing unprofitable stores and opening new ones in a more carefully targeted way.

Concept No. 10 Sometimes you should go for a check-raise bluff on river when a bluff bet would be unprofitable.

After war, accidents, and an unprofitable line, the striking art-nouveau station eventually fell into disrepair.

The private sector does not provide services in poor, rural areas, because the investment involved would be unprofitable.

Were the yen ever to rise sharply (making the trade unprofitable), there could be hell to pay in the markets.

Toward this end, Blockbuster closed unprofitable stores that were in close proximity to others.

A China Cosco official said Thursday that it plans to restructure its unprofitable dry-bulk shipping operations.

Speculation As to the desirability of this process is an unprofitable pastime .

It would be unprofitable to pursue this argument any further.

Markets are full of cats and dogs, stocks of unprofitable companies that at some point fly through the roof, defying gravity.

Again, you may look upon life as an unprofitable episode, disturbing the blessed calm of non-existence.

As I've argued before, Android is most attractive to the unprofitable and the strategically constrained.

Such trades are sensitive to changes in investors' appetite for risk, since volatile market moves can render them unprofitable.

Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress , which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

No trader enjoys seeing large profits reduced to small profits or watching profitable trades become unprofitable.

And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great an tall, bears no fruit.

Affected crops would soon deteriorate into rotting piles of unprofitable vegetation.

The accepted wisdom is that Enron was a shell game - an unprofitable company masquerading as a profitable one.

By cutting unprofitable stores, it has raised margins; in the first half, profits rose by 66 per cent on a 22 per cent increase in revenue.

Unprofitable is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.

Two unprofitable smaller firms, Jaguar and Saab, were swallowed by Ford and GM respectively only to cost billions in further losses.

It has warned revenue will slow and it will be unprofitable in 2011 as it invests in technology and international growth.

costs across the oil industry will make many investments in Russia unprofitable unless the tax regime is changed.

For starters, the wager against the country's debt has a long and unprofitable history, saddling investors with big losses.

Know when to stop investing in unprofitable customers.

Kelly said that Southwest was "trimming flights that are unpopular and unprofitable. "

This made it unprofitable for some farmers to even harvest the grain from the fields.

Simon's ( 1947 ) answer is , first , that there are both economic and psychological 'sunk costs' that make rapid adjustment unprofitable .

Unprofitable ones will occupy a predomInant position In the medical service system.

But international banks re- main barred from issuing credit cards in China and the card business is still unprofitable for domestic banks.

the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

Especially in the winter of . com, no company will concentrate on such unprofitable goods.

A good accountant can analyse an unprofitable operation quickly.

A good accountant can analyze an unprofitable operation quickly.

'We cannot have an Opel that is chronically unprofitable, ' he said.

After John found farming unprofitable, he moved to town and turned his hand to carpentry.

ITX made a string of unprofitable acquisitions.

The businessman cannot close down his factory or shop because he finds it unprofitable.

The most of China's export was shoes , clothes , toys , these product was unprofitable and bad to environment.

Estimates vary, but the new rules may well make about one bank customer in ten unprofitable.

Renegotiate unprofitable financial deals and plans with creditors, employers, and clients: September 29 ( 2 weeks).

Finally, the copper price is now around $7, 000 per tonne, but five years ago it was $1, 300, making the whole industry unprofitable.

After all, don't shareholders prefer to own aprofitable company rather than an unprofitable one?

Salesmen, fixated on winning contracts at any cost, forgot how to step away from unprofitable deals.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.

But avoid foolish disputes genealogies contentions and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.

Car insurance companies may consider a high volume of claims as unprofitable.

He volunteered FOR the hard and unprofitable job.

We decide to cut out all the unprofitable projects.

Everything here has gone flat and unprofitable.

It remains unprofitable to produce rare earths on their own.

Net sales have declined for the past four years and the camera division is unprofitable.

O most holy Virgin, hear the voice of thy unprofitable servant.

And only when it becomes unprofitable will it stop.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless.

In the past fiscal year, its third unprofitable year out of four, it made a net loss of ¥ 63 billion.

Example: When we cut our losses we stop spending time, money or energy on unprofitable projects.

There were also a number of mines that were unprofitable and the government wanted to close.

But Mr Goyder downplayed the risk of Coles cutting margins to unprofitable levels in order to win market share.

The English surrendered their trading contracts in 1623, mainly because the Tokugawa restrictions made the business unprofitable.

Early last year, small makers of memory chips tumbled into the red and, by year end, industry leader Samsung was also unprofitable.

Tit. 3: 9 But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and strifes and contentions about the law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

It is Very difficult to shake them of, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.

Furthermore, if a certain type of work is constanly unprofitable, then stop offering it.

this is unprofitable to continue disscuse this question.

Because unprofitable companies don't stay in business very long, and if they're not in business, they can't very well satisfy customers.

Ten years on and even the biggest among the Chinese chip companies are chronically unprofitable and kept alive mainly by government support.

Hitachi said it will cut unprofitable business lines, reduce staff and eliminate factories in Japan and overseas, but gave no specifics.

Job (Job) 15 Job 15: 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

To boost productivity at home, Japan needs to kill off some of its old, unprofitable companies

An Investigation on Operating and Management of Local Unprofitable Agricultural Science Research Units

A Consideration on the Accounting Reform in Governments and Unprofitable Organization

On the Definition of the Unprofitable Department

Recovery of Unprofitable Wells by Side-Tracking translated

That which is devoted to sensual pleasure in sensual objects: base, vulgar, common, ignoble, unprofitable;

Create business model for unprofitable client

Wants the special attention to the Unprofitable firm, the high debt enterprise's attention, takes the measure promptly;

Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,

The Development of Unprofitable Structure and the Deformation of the Management System of Government

The reason a monopoly exists is that other firms find it unprofitable or impossible to enter the market