"You cannot reject a contract that is unprofitable for you without thinking of the consequences for the party on the other side," Ms. Mayerson said.
Humans deciding what to eat without expert help — something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees — is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, distinctly risky if you're a nutritionist and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or journalist.
"Around 10 per cent of stores are unprofitable, but you will find that in any other retailer.
Lots of things are unprofitable if you narrowly consider outlays and income — including most of our roadways.
Unless they are poorly managed and unprofitable (which you can also determine by examining all of the publicly released financial documents of a traded company), the value of the company is likely to the rise.
What about the basic (and unprofitable) fact that, whatever you do and however exhausted you become, babies just take time to sleep through the night?
But if you have a profitable sideline selling handcrafted dog collars and have started up an unprofitable sideline boarding dogs, you may be able to combine the two on a single Schedule C, making it more likely that you'll show that profit three years out of five.
"If you're running Spy, at some point you have a choice: do you want to be the cute, unprofitable, ultimately doomed niche publication, or do you want to create something that's viable and lasting?" Denton said.
Then you take the unprofitable part of the mountain, what the coal companies call the "overburden," and you dump it in a holler or you dump it where a stream used to run.
Instead, they're borrowing a theory from other cities: If you build an unprofitable stadium next to an unprofitable convention center, the synergy will miraculously turn their combined red ink into black.
