1.  Kidnapping is a business and a very profitable one.

2.  The trick, clearly, is a very profitable one if you can get away with it.

3.  Now if you want a coal industry you can have a good coal industry, a profitable one.

4.  Almost none of the dozens of community-based Web sites made the leap from a social forum to a profitable one, which disappointed clients.

5.  An inspirational yarn, certainly, and a profitable one for Disney.

6.  As for the game, it is a massive logistical undertaking and a profitable one as well.

7.  Besides securing the line of credit, it has closed money-losing stores to focus on profitable ones and replaced its chief financial officer.

8.  A profitable one, too.

9.  A whole subculture of Internet consultants has sprung up, offering workshops promising to make the online venture a profitable one.

10.  But will competitive opportunities be profitable ones?