21.   Other oil-producing nations in the Middle East cut production to reap windfall profits.

22.   Plans in the Senate to impose a tax on casinos run on Indian reservations may cut into the windfall profits enjoyed by that industry.

23.   People familiar with Blackstone said relationships between its chief Peterson and Union Carbide Robert D. Kennedy helped make the windfall profit possible.

24.   Shareholders in companies being acquired, it seems, are sometimes deciding to give their stock to a charity rather than pay taxes on their windfall profits.

25.   Smaller casino managers, and their investors, are now finding that they were often too optimistic in forecasting windfall profits from hapless gamblers.

26.   Some shareholders in companies being acquired are donating their stock to a charity rather than pay taxes on windfall profits.

27.   State officials say they are reluctant to sign long-term purchase contracts at relatively high prices that ensure windfall profits for producers.

28.   That strengthened the yen, effectively putting the brakes on expectations exporters will reap windfall profits.

29.   That strengthened the yen, skewering hopes exporters will reap windfall profits.

30.   That would have created some huge windfall profits over the short term, but a windfall-profits tax would have dealt with that.