Whether or not the UK gets the new smart grid infrastructure in place to move electricity around Europe at 10 minutes' notice is entirely dependent on whether National Grid thinks it is profitable to make the investments.
While some young chefs at Taipei's Kai Ping Culinary School say they are more interested in opening Japanese or other restaurants after graduating, because they think it's more profitable, others are aspiring to represent Taiwan's food on the global stage.
"It's a big business in terms of revenue and not as profitable as it once was for Time, but I think it is hardly profitable for Newsweek and U.S. News," said Robert Cohen, a New York-based publishing consultant.
"I don't think it was ever profitable," Mr. Richardson said of Cahiers d'Art.
"I just didn't think it was a profitable line of inquiry," Dr. Regnerus said, in the one answer he would e-mail me.
"So for the first year or two we didn't get a lot of phone calls saying, 'Wow!' We got a lot of phone calls saying, 'What the hell are you doing?' " He added, "I didn't think it was going to be profitable".
"[The company] ended up failing miserably," says Drew. "I essentially put everything I had into a business as a minority partner … And I did it purely because I thought it was going to be profitable.
The new Tyco, though still viable, is what skeptics always thought it was: a hodgepodge of consistently profitable but unconnected, slow-growth businesses that produced things as diverse as surgical gear and home-security systems.
The reserve itself was discouraging if you're an investor hoping for earnings, because it signaled that Salesforce doesn't think it will be profitable any time soon and made no projection of when its results would be profitable.
This highly produced single and video would not be here if executives didn't think it would be profitable.
