President Bush's new ethics proposals, announced Wednesday, bar directorships on profit-seeking corporations and limit outside income for all senior Government officials.

The size and profit-seeking imperative of dominant media corporations are said to create a bias.

All three of those points are connected to the same underlying fact:that the Guardian does not belong to a profit-seeking corporation.

The association warned that many proposals pending in Congress would lead to "domination of America's health care system by giant profit-seeking corporations."

Moreover, the China situation, they said, is only one aspect of the broader question of how profit-seeking corporations can expect to compete with government-financed foreign programs that are willing to lose money to win business.

I hope that your series helps not only to stop the drift toward high-stakes testing, but also to end the privatization of education programs and the outflow of public dollars to profit-seeking corporations.

Jamestown, as Mr. Gordon reminds us, was founded not by the English state but by a profit-seeking corporation.

Some critics, however, have charged that they are doing it for commercial exploitation, since the money for the expedition has been put up by Ocean Research, a profit-seeking corporation.

This month, Ms. will begin a search for $10 million to $15 million in capital to expand operations and convert Ms. from a tax-exempt foundation to a profit-seeking corporation.

Some still question whether an AIDS facility can be run successfully by a profit-seeking corporation.