A management change and a business shift, including dropping unprofitable lines, resulted in earnings last year of $22.8 million.

"They are in the process of carving off marginal or unprofitable regional lines."

An unprofitable line of thinking to pursue, I couldn't even find a starting point to begin theorising.

As a result of this shift in transportation methods, the small and unprofitable lines were discontinued.

The winnowing process is aimed at unprofitable lines of businesses.

Brief consideration, however, made this seem an unprofitable line of argument to take.

As a result, unprofitable lines were either closed, shortened, or reorganized.

But this was an unprofitable line of thought.

It trimmed expenses and abandoned or sold off unprofitable lines.

It was an unprofitable secondary line and transferred to a company established by local governments in 1987.