(Owners say that it costs around $ 1 million a year to maintain a pro team,
most operate at a loss, and their primary source of revenue — sponsorships — can be fickle, especially when teams get relegated out of LoL's championship tier.)
Not exact matches
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The improvements in low - RPM performance, which is where
most street - driven automobiles
operate a majority of the time, occur in trade for a power and efficiency
loss at higher RPM ranges.
Branches make up about 40 - 60 % of the
operating costs of
most banks, and coupled with the low interest rates on loans, this means that offering anything over the bare minimum amount of interest means that your bank is
operating at a
loss.
These dot com companies needed a continual supply of new investment because
most of them were
operating at a
loss and some didn't even have a mechanism to make a profit
at all,
at least not a realistic one.
Asheville renters insurance can be very difficult to find, because with rates held artificially low, mono - line home insurance policies (without a bundled supporting policy such as auto) almost invariably
operate at a
loss to
most carriers.
Unfortunately, the wish of all insurers to achieve this happy result creates intense competition, so vigorous in
most years that it causes the P / C industry as a whole to
operate at a significant underwriting
loss.
They did post a net
loss for the current quarter after I published this post (possibly due to a lack of relevant game releases this quarter, since
most game development seems to be focused on the planned NX console), but
at the same time, Nintendo forecast yearly
operating profit to climb 37 percent compared to last year.
Even on the «bumpercrop» best years the current corn and soy type farmers make maybe 300 dollars an acre, and as I said before,
most years actually
operating at a
loss.
Per memory (and you are much closer)
most British coal mines were
operating at a
loss in 1984, so what they were producing was not economic reserves.
The giant bite of music royalties is endemic to the industry —
most streaming music services
operate at a
loss.