11.   Knight-Ridder will continue to keep its share, although its profits will drop.

12.   Overall, wharf retail profits have dropped in recent years, too, business owners say.

13.   Operating profit dropped because there is too much utility manufacturing capacity worldwide, Bunch said, and because some international projects were hung up as the buyers awaited financing.

14.   Rates have fallen and profits have dropped along with them.

15.   Shares of oil exploration and oilfield service companies fell as declining oil and natural gas prices suggested industry profits will drop in coming quarters.

16.   The company warned earlier this month that eight-month profit would drop from previous forecasts.

17.   The brokerages will see profits drop this year, analysts say, over a scandal involving millions of dollars authorities say the four paid a racketeer.

18.   The competition matched the cuts two months later, and cereal maker profits dropped.

19.   Thomas Van Leeuwen, an analyst with CS First Boston in New York, said AK Steels profits will drop by about one-fourth next year.

20.   Profits Drop at Washington Post Co.