21.   Profits are soaring, and Fujita-san is crowing.

22.   Profits soared, from commercial sponsorships to products like board games.

23.   Profit soared at its Cellcom mobile-phone subsidiary.

24.   Profits soar.

25.   Profits soared, but carriers overreacted by buying too much equipment.

26.   Profits have also soared, as the bank squeezed costs and shed less-profitable business.

27.   Profits soared.

28.   Sales were strong and profits were soaring, but investors seemed to fear that the good times might not last.

29.   Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. corporate profits have soared while wages have stagnated or fallen.

30.   Such mergers have occurred even as chemical profits have soared during the past two years in what has been a traditionally cyclical business.