1.   It showed that it was not going to be a profitable venture over time.

2.   On the whole it was a profitable venture.

3.   Selling real estate on the side turned out to be a profitable venture for the stay-at-home mom.

4.   Where our competitive position is weak, we have continued to divest assets to help fund more profitable ventures elsewhere and build on our areas of strength.

5.   Dr Gates, of Durham University, is working with Middlesbrough Botanic Centre in what all parties hope will be a profitable venture.

6.   Although the initiative seems philanthropic in nature, Hurst believes World e-Inclusion will be a profitable venture for Hewlett-Packard in the long term.

7.   Blazyk hopes that with upcoming work to be done on the Bay Bridge and other spans, Transquest may prove a profitable venture.

8.   Buchenholz hopes that eventually Baked in the Hood will be a profitable venture that will employ its graduates, offering them shares in the business.

9.   But France has taken measures to ensure NASCAR remains a profitable venture well into the next millennium.

10.   But having decided to move, Balk said, he wanted to make it a profitable venture.