Sentence examples for unprofitable activities from inspiring English sources

Alcatel, Mr. Tchuruk said, was taking the second-quarter charge to cover the cost of reorganizing unprofitable activities, like phone handsets and business services, and to cover losses from depreciating inventories and the company's involvement in an optical fiber network that had been planned across the Pacific.

Dear User, We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities.

Troubled Internet company Lycos Europe, which is owned by Telefónica, is shutting down its email service and website creation and hosting service Tripod, the company is saying via emails to users that begin with "We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities".

This may result in better web content by making hitherto unprofitable online activities economically viable.Meta Group, a consultancy, reckons that the market for paid search and other contextual advertising will grow to $5 billion by 2006.

They proposed that private facilities inevitably prioritized the most profitable services at the expense of the important but unprofitable immunisation activities, as demonstrated by their deployment of unqualified staff to run the latter.

It just needs to be rigid enough to raise the costs for smugglers and render the activity unprofitable.

This theory — which is just basic micro — says that when some markets are distorted, for whatever reason, social costs and benefits across the economy don't correspond to private costs, so that unprofitable, even seemingly wasteful activities can sometimes be beneficial.

Now, as president of privately held Anchor Packaging in St . Louis Mo., Nemura is using ABC to eliminate unnecessary activities and unprofitable product lines.

Moreover, the average company that engages in neither activity is unprofitable, while those that do both have an average annual return on assets of nearly 15percentt.

Barcelona's activities also cover several other unprofitable sports, including basketball, for which the club is planning to build a new arena.

In an interview, Mr. Cave said his company, which lists 20 agents on its Web site, had never had an unprofitable year, but like most other firms saw activity fall off in October, November and December, followed by an uptick in the last few weeks.