Sentence examples for bad profitable from inspiring English sources

It is no great thing to make bad profitable movies cheaply, and just a little more impressive to make good, cheap, and successful films.

Does it choose the film that makes Hollywood feel good about itself (as a technologically innovative, financially robust institution) or the feel-bad, barely profitable account of the tortuous endgame in Iraq?

Australia has an inglorious history of turning a blind eye to profitable bad behaviour.

The bad news: marginally profitable websites, which is most of them, will lose advertising revenue and plunge into the red.

Tax incentives run the risk of subsidising good investments (which need no such help) or turning bad investments into profitable ones (when they should never see the light of day).

It is now obvious that Wall Street spent most of the Bush years trafficking in bad debt, a profitable enterprise while it lasted, but a destructive force that is now wreaking new havoc daily.

Buying stocks after a crisis or bad news has been profitable as was Browne's purchase of American Express when it dropped in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack due to fear people would stop flying.

He turned bad news into a profitable experience.

So good or bad, the movies are profitable and that's what the movie business is all about.

In the dog-eat-dog capitalist world of his day, Carnegie had a simple and brilliantly successful formula for succeeding in the steel business: quickly adopt the latest technology so as always to be the low-cost producer and thus profitable, even in bad times; retain profits in good times to be able to snap up failing competitors at bargain prices.

Recently merged with Datek, the online brokerage has managed to stay profitable in a bad market.