Finally, the hospital needs to thoroughly evaluate the costly, money-losing services that it insists are vital to its mission.

As a result, BC Rail, burdened with several money-losing services that it was required to operate, saw its debtload grow more than sixfold between 1991 and 2001.

Created by Congress in 1970, Amtrak preserved passenger travel by allowing railroads to unload this money-losing service - which the railroads had been threatening to drop - onto a semipublic corporation.

Three weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation agreed to buy Telepiu, the money-losing Italian service of Canal Plus, for 1.5 billion euros.

By September, 1988 it had abandoned the money-losing service (see Newfoundland Railway) in Newfoundland, and in July, 1989 abandonment was announced for Prince Edward Island.

As the dollars begin to disappear, various money-losing services will go with them.

The community hospitals worry that they will lose patients whose fees subsidize money-losing services like emergency rooms and care for the poor.

Passenger trains made little money for the railroads, but replacement of steam engines with reliable diesel units could help railroads save money in a money-losing service.

The two money-losing services each carry N.H.L. games.

While attempting to compete for corporate customers, the local phone companies remain obliged, as public utilities, to provide low-profit or even money-losing residential service.