21.   They will be demanding profitable operations, strong customers and consistent sales and revenue patterns.

22.   Unisys has struggled for years to make the switch from the shrinking mainframe computer business to more profitable operations selling hardware and consulting services for personal computers.

23.   Westinghouse has decided to borrow heavily to bet on broadcasting, its most profitable operation.

24.   Ahold said higher profits were due largely to a confluence of positive factors that helped fatten margins at most of its profitable operations throughout Europe and the United States.

25.   He and other speakers at the rally blamed the government for a lack of effective industrial policy that could guarantee profitable operation of the yard and other ailing industries.

26.   He said the group is trying to extract itself from unprofitable businesses while improving profitable operations with greater efficiency and conservative strategies.

27.   Heisley has a history of buying under-performing companies and turning them into profitable operations.

28.   Heisley, who bought the team from Seattle businessman John McCaw, has a history of turning underperforming companies into profitable operations.

29.   That is the main problem preventing it from a profitable operation.

30.   Despite seven years of profitable operation, the college was still operating from rented classrooms, it added.