The entire enterprise is surprisingly profitable given how many poor people it treats.
It's hard to see how this industry can be profitable, given these fundamentals.
After crunching the numbers, the students concluded that steady growth was more profitable, given the relatively low probability of a pandemic.
Continental Airlines Wants $500 Million in Reductions Continental Airlines said that it must cut wages and benefits by $500 million a year to become profitable given industry conditions.
It said operating in those states would no longer be profitable, given the likelihood that the Bells would raise their fees.
The crash of the Air France supersonic Concorde brought down a plane that by common measurements can hardly be profitable, given its high maintenance costs, daunting fuel bills, little passenger space, and no cargo.
While employees may be willing, or even eager, to work out of the office, it is not clear that serving a mobile work force with such centers can be profitable given the cost of deploying wireless networks.
Start with investment in the nation's crumbling infrastructure: Lawrence Summers, once the top economic adviser to President Obama, never tires of repeating that this not only is urgently needed but is almost guaranteed to be profitable, given rock-bottom interest rates.
[C14.] Role Seems to Remain for Concorde The July 25 crash of the Air France supersonic Concorde brought down a plane that by common measurements can hardly be profitable, given its high maintenance costs, daunting fuel bills, little passenger space and no cargo.
Instead the company reported to its managers that the product was extremely profitable, given the model's risk assumptions, and so more should be sold.
