"In a lot of the parts of the developing world this trust could be broken and because it's become so profitable to distribute,sell,manufacture, a lot of these products that are of low quality, and substandard."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

You move out to someplace that nobody bothered to farm before, because it wasn't profitable enough, because you need more land.

你搬到一块以前没人耕作过的土地上,因为它并不是那么有利可图,但是你需要更多的土地

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So, you have to feed the slave all year round to work only a small part of the time, that's not very profitable.

你不得不整年的喂养奴隶,而他们只有少量时间在工作,这是很不划算的

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She said that she had made it possible "for many colored women to abandon the washtub for more pleasant and profitable occupations."

VOA: special.2010.03.28

I think that if Ford and other car companies didn't use cost-benefit analysis, they'd eventually go out of business because they wouldn't be able to be profitable and millions of people wouldn't be able to use their cars to get to jobs, to put food on the table, to feed their children.

我觉得要是福特和其他汽车公司,不使用成本效益分析的话，他们最后就会倒闭,因为他们无法盈利,这样就会有数百万人无法开车上班，没法赚钱，养不起小孩。

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The Ford Motor Company refused government aid and is working to become profitable again by two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

You look at what will sell and what's the most profitable venture to take on.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

So,to the extend that you can get this technology to them, this could potentially be a very profitable business."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

A return to profitable healthy fishing can lead people out of piracy in the central and north regions,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

A company manager tells VOA that GM expects to lose money initially, but hopes to make the Volt profitable in future years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

You know,I thought there was a possibly an opportunity there to try and turn a pest into something that might be profitable."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

That is because the victims are vulnerable to exploitation, laws against this practice are not vigorously enforced and it is a hugely profitable trade.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The airline's route to Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, is one of its most profitable.

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

"These fish are voracious eaters. In order for it to be economically profitable we are going to have to find some way to get cheaper food for fish.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Sessions' great-grandfather was the first person to make peanuts profitable in Enterprise.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"Bonuses paid out by profitable companies to outstanding employees make sense,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"It's not profitable. There's easier ways to make a living.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

If your business starts being profitable, Someone will come to your place tomorrow and tell you: "if you want to keep your business give us a part of it, if you do not want to end up in prison."

VOA: standard.2009.08.29