21. They include the desert of the Great Sahara and wide expanses of equally profitless scrub or marsh. 22. At Vertex, Sato leads one of the most financially promising though profitless companies in the biotech industry. 23. It will be investors, not employees, who will feel the pain now of a profitless recovery. 24. The Royalists, finding their victory profitless , moved eastward to Devizes, closely followed by the enemy. 25. A low profile, low IQ future is of course a dreary one, profitless , unless changed. 26. Some areas of the economy may be improving, but I see it as a kind of profitless prosperity. 27. Doing so saves the firm from having to default on the deal but will also make the deal profitless . 28. Then the talk was of " profitless growth " and " pushing on a string ." 29. Whether they ( italics ) were ( end italics ) or not was a subordinate and almost always a profitless question. 30. Telxon spent its last two quarters in the red, its first back-to-back profitless periods since 1993. 