1.   Such saving is specifically used to increase productive capital and future profits.

2.   The more the company finances by means of debt, the greater the proportion of future profits which are committed to interest payments.

3.   Particular areas of sensitivity on which comment must be avoided include future profits and prospects, asset values and the likelihood of the revision of an offer.

4.   Also, investors are not convinced that the economy is moving in a direction that will boost the future profits of blue-chip companies.

5.   America Online Inc. shares slumped after the company unveiled a pricing plan that some analysts said may cut into future profits.

6.   Among individual stocks, the sharpest losses were among technology and computer-related companies with high valuations based on assumptions a booming future profits.

7.   Analysts said investors are shrugging off even positive earnings results because of concern that rising rates will hurt future profits.

8.   Analysts said the library sale will cut into future profits for Goldwyn, but the company had no other choice.

9.   And as interest rates rise, so should the rate at which rational investors discount those future profits.

10.   Analyst John Jones said IBM is overhauling its product lines and pursing an aggressive stock buyback strategy that bodes well for future profits.