Neither objective can be met without convenient transportation, but even this need not be a money-losing proposition.

Over time, the catalogue became a less profitable operation, and by the 1970s, it was a money-losing proposition.

In recent years, agriculture has been mostly a money-losing proposition here.

"Let me tell you there is no prestige and no great pleasure in getting into a money-losing proposition," he said.

As he put it in 1993, "it is a money-losing proposition."

For the companies, the welfare program has become a money-losing proposition, but one that guarantees shelf space and credibility.

Feeding visitors is often a money-losing proposition for museums, but it's necessary.

But milk is turning out to be a money-losing proposition.

But the carriers saw it as a money-losing proposition and turned the chore over to private companies.

His original $17 million asking price prompted much complaining in the publishing industry that such a conventional deal was a money-losing proposition.