At the heart of the proposal to transform the decaying, milelong stretch of mostly vacant concrete piers into a sprawling, vibrant park are moneymaking ventures run by private companies.

The center is a cooperative venture run by the United States Agriculture Department and the University of California at Berkeley.

In a sense, the whole process of embryonic development can be looked upon as a cooperative venture, jointly run by thousands of genes together.

It's a cooperative venture, owned and run by its waiters and waitresses, bus boys and cooks.

Its rival was a joint venture run by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Airship Industries, a small British blimp manufacturer.

Hillwood, a venture run by H. Ross Perot, Jr., is the master developer of the project, which it calls AllianceCalifornia.

The vast majority of German settlement was organized through private ventures run by the nobility or the Church.

This one is a commercial venture being run for the first time, the local CAMRA branch having found that the hiring conditions imposed by the venue are unacceptable.

That competitor, incidentally, is a joint venture run by the People's Liberation Army, which brings new meaning to the words "price war."

Their company, Best Services, was a modest venture, run from their home at first.