Another driving force is complaints from people who cannot get a single permit, even as some profit-making companies have scores.

Sooner or later, everyone making college plans might be able to sort through a welter of options, including some offered by private profit-making companies.

Or does it also include profit-making companies with social goals as part of their mission?

But this is the first time a profit-making company has tried to treat an entire district's school system like a business, education specialists say.

Today's college food service plans are run increasingly by profit-making companies, whose goal is to entice students to eat more.

This will be the first time any art museum has used its reputation, expertise and outreach to start a profit-making company.

American corporations can be either profit-making companies or non-profit entities.

That is a subjective judgment for any profit-making company.

The army has a wide range of profit-making companies engaged in everything from tourism to clock manufacturing.

Or is it a profit-making company, beset by competition on all sides?