But insurance companies have dropped most of these plans because they became unprofitable after a concentration of sicker policyholders was left when younger, healthier subscribers began seeking out cheaper individual insurance.
Millennium seems to be on a tear to convince investors that it can jump from being a well-regarded but unprofitable biotech to a drugmaker with tangible profits.
Statistics from the China Iron and Steel Association showed that the biggest steel firms there have returned to profitability, but oversupply and a string of unprofitable months have made it a tough year for the industry.
Eventually, Peterson rallied and began to farm organically a painstaking, unprofitable endeavor that eventually grew into a bountiful agronomic utopia.
The financial industry is relatively unprofitable and has a record of investing in dodgy foreign assets (including rotten American mortgages).
Unsurprisingly, the exit from unprofitable markets prompted a lot of anger.
DeCode is a small, unprofitable biotech firm founded by the genetics visionary Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured post at Harvard University to go back to Iceland and probe the genetics of an entire country.
In the new marketplace, devices people can't master in five minutes will result in a lot of returned items, which very quickly makes a product unprofitable.
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The domestics learned the hard way that ceding one segment of the market, even a historically unprofitable one like small cars, means ceding customers who don't come back.
The conditions have been the same for natural gas where increased production, thanks to shale and stagnating demand, have combined to create a largely unprofitable scenario for oil and gas companies.
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Thor has never had an unprofitable year--a rarity for an RV company--not even during the downturn in the late 1980s (though Thompson took no salary for two years to stay in the black).
The investment bankers knew overseas investors would shun a life insurance company with a portfolio of unprofitable policies.
The legal costs and the decline in newspaper ads have kept the company unprofitable, yet Fox sees a bright side.
She recalls how she advised a group of very poor women running a small, unprofitable bakery in Rwanda some years ago.
Paul Bard, a vice president at Renaissance Capital, says the recent tilt toward unprofitable companies is not as bad as it looks because a lot of these young companies will soon begin turning profits.
Mitsubishi, Japan's only unprofitable car maker, has suffered a collapse in domestic sales following a series of high-profile product recalls over the past four years.
Chapter 11 also allows a company to reject unprofitable leases and supply agreements or use the threat of such rejection as leverage to obtain financial concessions from lessors and other counterparties.
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German banks are keen to get into a banking market marginally less unprofitable than their own.
But once the artificially low interest rates end, those investments turn out to be unprofitable and must be abandoned, producing a decline in output.
The idea is that managers seeing the whole company can direct money and resources to a division that, while unprofitable, may hold Corning's next big hit.
According to Hilco Real Estate's Mr. Nagrani, unprofitable fast-food locations are having a hard time selling their sites to other franchisees and shutting their doors instead.
Driver touted the safety of his trading methods, outlining risk management techniques that included the promise that trading would stop on a given day when three unprofitable trades occurred.
Most store leases expire in the next few years, when the company will have a chance to close some unprofitable locations and in some cases strike better rental deals.
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The firm said the single most important factor cutting like-for-like sales had been a decision not to chase unprofitable sales in sectors such as computing, which are highly competitive.
In the early 1990s with the advent of a free market in Poland, the large national breweries began selling off their unprofitable assets, which typically included brewing equipment that could not produce beer on a sufficiently large scale.
But in the early 1980s, a Socialist government reneged on its pledge to keep France's unprofitable coal mines open and, instead accelerated their closure, causing him to lose his job at a neighboring pit.
Possibly, but what about all the investment that will not occur stateside thanks to capital fleeing a country so eager to create unprofitable work?
Under current market conditions and uncertainties an investment in CCS technology for a power plant seems to be unprofitable and will therefore be postponed indefinitely.
Driven through amid often fierce public opposition, the program put inefficient, unprofitable state giants into private hands and provided a template for many other countries in Europe.
In addition, the widespread privatization program she drove through amid often-fierce public opposition put inefficient, unprofitable state giants into private hands and provided a template for many other countries in Europe.
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