1.   But the airlines are also supposed to thrive as businesses in a competitive marketplace, earning enough profits to expand their operations and enrich shareholders.

2.   But the company and its founders were able to support a large work force, enrich shareholders and endow major foundations because Hewlett-Packard was consistently profitable.

3.   Caterpillar can afford to enrich shareholders, analysts said.

4.   Even as IBM and Starbucks were enriching shareholders by laying claims to Internet status, news from the Web was not all upbeat.

5.   It is also enriching mutual fund shareholders of many stripes.