"It's profitless prosperity," Mr. Betty said.
"However, my belief is that for most of that time it's going to be profitless prosperity".
After all, as Littlefield points out, it hasn't been profitable, and the machine-tool services market despite the positive aura that surrounds the concept of services these days may well end up being profitless for all participants.
Her friendships with other women are profitless; her relationship to her children is thankless; her sense of self so dim that she can do little more, most days, when her husband isn't home, than lie down, alone, on the floor, in the titular dark room.
At any rate, I had no Oedipal motive to discard it; at college and then in New York City I found my way fitfully to Lutheran services, shunning deeper involvement but stealing away cleansed and lightened, and taking a certain contrarian pride in participating in ceremonies that, by the wisdom of the world, were profitless and irrational.
But in the last two years the company's volume growth has been profitless.
That is, time-delays maybe harmless for both the permanence and balancing survival of species, in addition to being profitless to the extinction of species.
Now, eight years later, the dream has finally come true for many of the tech companies that were profitless back then: growing profits, enormous margins, growing cash hordes.
One of the main problems for aquaculture caviar producers is that 50% of the animals are profitless males which need to be discarded from production as quickly as possible to minimise expenditure and maximise space.
The growth in the 1980's was largely profitless.
