Only Air France turned a profit--a very small profit, but even that was an accomplishment.
Now, with the economy in the dumps, bankers rightly see that borrowers' risks are great and, in the near term, their profit opportunities small.
For the carriers, the program is a chance for them to sign up more subscribers and make a small profit, plus more money if customers go over their small initial allotment and need to buy more minutes or text messages.
The Pac-12 Networks will turn a small profit in their first year, Scott said.
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It rained before the game, and I sold enough ponchos to make a small profit.
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Since then it has been hoped that Apple would break even or even post a small profit.
Those savings, if they materialize, would be used to repay the investors and provide them a small profit.
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Ford and other carmakers have little choice but to try to derive more profit out of small cars.
Banks are exempt from the new law and stand to profit as some small-loan customers come their way.
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He held those shares until the stock rebounded, earning himself a small profit.
After repaying his dad in full, Richman earned a small profit in 1963.
In 1999-2000 the Penguins should break even and could even make a small profit this season if they advance deep into the playoffs.
They would rather profit on a small scale, selling tapa cloth and betel nuts, without losing control of their land.
No other carmaker, including the import brands, can afford to do so because the profit margins on small cars are so narrow.
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The supplier companies plan to make a small profit on the machines.
This risk-free arbitrage trade locked in a small profit for the institutional investor and kept the SuperUnit market price in line with its underlying value.
Ms. WORMSER: The sanctuary is a non-profit refuge for small, rainforest monkeys and the monkeys have wound up in laboratories and in the pet trade.
The profit margin seems small until you consider that the bulk of the company's reported revenue represents the value of drugs sold through retail pharmacies.
In the repo market, where dealers sell government securities to investors on an overnight basis and buys them back and take a small profit, yields have jumped.
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As a result, profit margins of small firms are thin and cashflow problems are acute even by South Korean standards, a trend that has continued since the 1960s.
Until now, Nokia had been able to bring down the prices of its feature phones or enter into the dual-sim phone segment to compete and turn a small profit.
Until now, Nokia has been able to bring down the prices of its feature phones or enter into the dual-sim phone segment to compete and turn a small profit.
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On paper his business never made more than a small profit, but its meat products (burgers and Philly steaks) were rated as good quality by those who knew the brand.
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After 10 consecutive quarters of losses for the company, Sycamore on Thursday surprised Wall Street when it reported a small profit of about half a million dollars for its fiscal fourth quarter.
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Papillon, my tennis dress manufacturing company, was annually generating about two million dollars in sales, making a small profit and my customers were some of the best known department stores in the country.
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The fall of the dollar and the dramatic rise in the euro has made European products especially expensive in the U.S. It is difficult enough to squeeze profit out of small vehicles in a market that pays for size.
It is on the Ponoko blog (which regularly has terrific stuff for makers getting a business started) by Cassandra Glessner at SF Commonality, a San Francisco non-profit that helps small businesses with micro finance, micro-lending programs worth checking out.
"Starbucks told us that it has made a loss for 14 of the 15 years it has been operating in the UK, but in 2006 it made a small profit" - in spite of a reported market share of almost a third.
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The display division posted 1.11 trillion won in profit compared with a small loss a year earlier.
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