51.   That would make it one of the more profitable Internet companies around, analysts said.

52.   The exception is Yahoo, the only profitable company of the lot.

53.   The move reflects attempts by Korean chaebol, or conglomerates, to sell their weaker businesses to stronger rivals to focus resources on their most profitable companies.

54.   The right-wing talk-radio hosts would have been howling if mere bureaucrats had dared to challenge a company as profitable as ValuJet.

55.   The two media companies jointly owned the profitable company and were under pressure from a federal judge to settle their ownership dispute.

56.   There are opportunities in Japan to buy profitable companies at little more than the net cash on their balance sheets.

57.   They are now among the most profitable companies quoted on the New York Stock Exchange.

58.   This keeps the expenses from reducing profits at Applied Biosystems, which as a profitable company is valued by shareholders on its earnings.

59.   Those are profitable companies, like Charles River Laboratories and Invitrogen, that are vendors to pure biotechnology companies, he said.

60.   Today, a profitable company faces high taxes and an inability to repatriate profits.