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This made it unprofitable for some farmers to even harvest the grain from the fields.
"How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of 'Trapped.'"
This phenomenon has rendered the airline business largely unprofitable – and customers increasingly unhappy.
The Fed would then cause a liquidity squeeze and so distort asset prices as to make much construction, sizable amounts of other investment, and some consumption goods unaffordable (and thus unprofitable to produce).
New investments, lines of business, and worker-firm matches that would be highly productive and profitable at normal levels of capacity utilization and unemployment are unprofitable now.
Many conglomerates went bankrupt during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, having made excessive and unprofitable investments.
France is also trying to return to old policies of bailing out unprofitable private companies on the verge of collapse with taxpayers' money.
The profitable parts, such as the TGV, will easily find buyers; the unprofitable plants should be closed.
French taxpayers' money is better spent on temporary benefits for displaced workers than on subsidies to keep an unprofitable plant alive.
Only after a thorough penetration and saturation of the market will comparatively unprofitable sales of matches and salt in rural areas develop.
Governments may have strategic reasons to hold onto unprofitable assets, but investors who own shares in partly privatized state firms do not.
Often competition is limited by regulations that fragment markets, but sometimes it is a matter of it being unprofitable to arbitrage to, say, bring in your croissants from Belgium each morning.
First, the large price drop caused massive supply destruction, as some energy producers, from both the traditional and non-traditional sectors, became unprofitable.
This is not to say that public investment and philanthropy should subsidize inherently unprofitable projects.
Some may need to reorganize or exit unprofitable markets; others may have to undertake mergers and acquisitions to achieve economies of scale.
The traditional capitalist model may have made Bill Gates rich, but his foundation now finances valuable technological breakthroughs in unprofitable ways.
The big banks play on this fear, arguing that financial reform will cause them to become unprofitable and make them unable to lend, or that there will be some other dire unintended consequence.
Incredibly, Russia’s largest company - with one third of the world’s gas reserves - is unprofitable because of poor management and theft.
The second locomotive began sucking fumes two years ago, and is now coasting to a halt, which means that the third – the US as importer of last resort – is losing speed as well: the weak dollar accompanying the housing finance crash makes it unprofitable to export to the US.
A carbon tax can help preserve the atmosphere while also discouraging some of the most exotic and risky energy-exploration activities by making them unprofitable.
By that is meant essentially a public interest in allowing the economy to evolve flexibly, so that resources move from uses that have become unprofitable to ones that have a higher potential.
A third are damaged beyond repair, another third are hopelessly unprofitable, and the rest are a mismanaged assortment of plants, a few of which could potentially produce something of value, but only with proper management and incentives.
They do not control the main costs that shareholders face when they do not manage the company themselves, such as unprofitable expansion, shirking, retention of free cash flow, and empire building.
Moreover, real interest rates will rise, owing to policy uncertainty, rendering many investments that are truly socially productive unprofitable.
No bail-outs or subsidies to prop-up the unprofitable activities of the politically powerful.
They are simply not there, because they find the place unprofitable.
Although direct legal obstacles have been eliminated in Europe, indirect obstacles such as taxation – which can make a merger unprofitable – persist.
In the meantime, the government would be closing unprofitable plants, which might boost corporate saving.
In order to manage the resulting increase in risk, China’s new leaders are now refusing to provide further liquidity injections, as well as curbing loans to unprofitable sectors.
The ratings agency Fitch has warned that many OBOR projects – most of which are being pursued in vulnerable countries with speculative-grade credit ratings – face high execution risks, and could prove unprofitable.