1.   Although banking remains important, the most profitable area for expansion in recent years has been manufacturing.

2.   But online stock trading was once one of the few reliably profitable areas of electronic commerce.

3.   The mortgage department was the most profitable area of the firm, and the place trainees most desperately wanted to work.

4.   Another potentially profitable area is teddy bear art.

5.   At the same time, the bank is expanding in other, more profitable areas.

6.   At the same time, the bank said it will be expanding in other, more profitable areas.

7.   Combining that with its own communications operations and those of CompuServe will give WorldCom a beefier business in what analysts see as a profitable area.

8.   Holding a strong position in these profitable areas has helped Sharp weather a recession in Japan that has hurt other makers of audio and video equipment.

9.   It decided to concentrate on its most profitable areas.

10.   Not everyone agrees bigger is necessarily better, although competitive strength in two or more profitable therapeutic areas and strong product innovation is considered essential.