1.   In particular, to include in their objectives improvements in customer service alongside profit as performance indicators.

2.   At both companies, cost-cutting created wider profit margins, that is, profit as a percentage of sales.

3.   A company like InTest will profit as companies like Intel and Micron Technology Inc. flourish, though its stock can be had at a cheaper price.

4.   Have you profited as a writer from your position on the margin of two cultures?

5.   Likewise, the seller of calls profits as the underlying stock declines in value.

6.   Samsung Electronics Co., LG Semicon and other companies profited as the yen gained against the dollar in recent weeks because Japanese companies are their biggest rivals.

7.   So favors telecommunications and electrical-machinery stocks, which will profit as the government steps up fixed-asset investment.

8.   The company profited as recycling programs took hold in many major U.S. cities, but the company is now heavily exposed to the ups and downs of recycling prices.

9.   They profited as the metal lost about one-quarter of its value in the past six weeks.

10.   World Cup USA generated three times as much profit as orginally forecast, organisers said here Wednesday.