21.   That was more than one-quarter better than forecasted by Toyo Keizai, a Japanese financial information service, and double what the company predicted.

22.   The company predicted dire consequences if its records became public.

23.   The company also predicted profits will improve during the second half of the year, in part because of an increase in new business.

24.   The company also predicted that first-quarter profits would fall below expectations.

25.   The company had earlier predicted a slight rise in the current quarter.

26.   The company had predicted a profit.

27.   The company is predicting strong sales next year of its code-conversion software factories.

28.   The company predicted a slowdown of terminal sales in April.

29.   The company also predicted health insurance rates for all subscribers would begin to rise modestly after several years in which rates have declined slightly.

30.   The company would not predict the size of the charge or its coming sales or profits.