We've asked Yahoo to use their filtering to prevent piracy, not for profit. We tried to discuss it with Yahoo.

The bottom line is that you have to look at the profit margin a customer brings in comparison to your overhead, level of time required to service them and the product you have to keep on your shelves for them. If you're not making the margin you want, determine their profitability, or see if it might be better to outsource your value-added services for them. Why do business with someone who will make you lose money?

The town cannot put itself in fiscal jeopardy so the developer can make a profit.

Hockey can be a real tough business with the slimmest of profit margins, obviously.

When you privatize, you're expecting with the uses of best business practices, with the profit motive, that people in the private sector can get savings that the state couldn't.

A great deal of this success can be credited to the unprecedented cooperation of public, private, and non-profit partnerships in dealing with these issues.