Investors who have stuck with Vivendi Universal, the water utility turned media conglomerate, say they like each of its businesses, even if they feel uncomfortable with the ability of its embattled chief executive, Jean-Marie Messier, to weld them into a solid, consistently profitable whole.
The American war in Indochina, profoundly damaging on the other side of Thai borders, ushered Thailand into a profitable peace, as a whole industry of indulgence blossomed to cater to weary warriors.
Mr Murdoch responded by closing NI's bestselling Sunday tabloid, the News of the World, and abandoning a multi-billion-pound bid to take over the whole of BSkyB, a profitable satellite-television company.
This means their whole community can reap the economic benefits of being home to a profitable social enterprise, which reinvests profits back into the community.
As if a man wants to spend his whole life hanging on to some high-school dream of rock stardom instead of pursuing a profitable day job, Nick.
It was a profitable model.
And have a profitable day".
It is a profitable endeavour".
