Mixing for-profit and not-for-profit cultures is never easy, of course, and the partnerships are sometimes tricky to manage.

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Groupon will continue to grow and could remain the leading direct player in the space, but there will never be any profit in it for them.

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The USPS was never intended to be a profit mill for the federal government.

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If not, you get a deduction for the "profit" you never earned.

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Yung maintained that he never contacted the Trump Organization about selling the domain names for profit, he wrote in the complaint.

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Venture capitalists and others from the financial world will be looking for possible deals in an industry that has never been a dependable profit maker.

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Others say that private-sector efficiency could never have compensated for its higher costs of borrowing and requirement to turn a profit.

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The advantage of these kinds of films is that they tend to be relatively cheap to make, so Never Say Never doesn't have to be a blockbuster to turn a healthy profit for Viacom.

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This occurred despite the fact that it had never turned a profit since the time it was founded in 2005, and had poor prospects for doing so.

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But Gingrich's attorneys said he never intended to mislead the committee and argued it is common for people to work with both partisan and non-profit organizations.

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