They have been retreating from unprofitably risky loans to clients, especially to small businesses.
At their peak, before the 2008 crisis, they employed armies of agents to sell savings products, often unprofitably, sometimes illegally.
The sites earmarked for closure have been trading unprofitably for a number of years, the company said.
Toward the end of the discussion, Damon and I both hinted at the freedom of going free, the moments when giving your music away is more profitable — in the long run — than letting another company sell it inefficiently and unprofitably.
Action in Godard's films comes too late and unprofitably.
Where the world saw twenty-five-year-olds in T-shirts fiddling unprofitably with monotonous graphic effects, Calacanis saw twenty-eight-year-old C.E.O.s with initial public offerings and Palm Pilots.
In "The Office Revisited" — a 10-minute video posted Friday night on Ricky Gervais's YouTube channel as part of this year's Comic Relief benefit — Brent, played once again by Mr. Gervais, is still selling cleaning products and dabbling unprofitably in music.
A casual reunion of three longtime buddies slouching unprofitably through their 30s ultimately betrays a darker purpose in "Small Engine Repair," a raw, funny and well-tooled new play written by and featuring John Pollono, who is making an impressive, double-barreled Off Broadway debut.
Massachusetts passed a law in 1663 making the wasting of time a crime: "No person, householder or other shall spend his time idly or unprofitably, under pain of such punishment as the court shall think meet to inflict".
The sites earmarked for closure have been trading unprofitably for a number of years due to "a variety of economic and locational factors", the company said, but remaining sites are all trading profitably.
So, in the second line of the extract, we have the telling description of the furze blossom as "unprofitably gay".
