21.   Browning-Ferris said profits rose in its waste-collection and landfill operations.

22.   But operating profits rose anyway.

23.   But they confirmed that in general, costs have dropped over the past few years while profits have risen.

24.   But Wall Street is worried that corporate profits are not rising fast enough to justify current stock prices.

25.   Canadian stocks rose as optimism that corporate profits will rise buoyed industrial products, metals and other cyclical issues, analysts said.

26.   By taking over Roussel, Hoechst is acquiring a company that has seen its profits rise steadily over the last year.

27.   Chief Financial Officer Erich Mueller said he expects net profit to rise as long as the U.S. dollar is steady or rises.

28.   Citicorp and other banks, whose profits rise and fall with interest rates, led the decline.

29.   Companies are getting battered in the press and by Presidential hopefuls for firing workers at the same time that corporate profits are rising.

30.   Companies whose profits rise and fall with interest rates, such as banks and brokerage firms, gained.