Foreign students pay realistic fees (in contrast to the lossmaking business of teaching home students).

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Best known for such brands as Kingfisher, also the name of his lossmaking 18-month-old domestic airline.

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Mr Tata's foreign shopping has drawn some scepticism, especially over the purchase of the then lossmaking JLR.

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The reason the capital has been eroded is that Northern Rock is lossmaking.

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Too much of Sony is underperforming, causing lossmaking quarter after lossmaking quarter.

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The lossmaking divisions were either sold or shut down, and the debt the company owed to some 50-odd banks was consolidated and paid off.

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Taking advantage of liberalized rules and a more open economy, he sold lossmaking ventures and acquired companies in India and overseas to build scale in the businesses he wanted to retain.

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