1.   Any profits will help boost school funds.

2.   And the profits have helped equip the balzam factory with the latest Italian bottling equipment and a new laboratory devoted to analyzing the qualities of water.

3.   Buoyant corporate profits may help boost stocks today, analysts said.

4.   Higher refining profits also helped the top five U.S. oil companies post larger-than-expected earnings this year.

5.   His profits would help fund his fledgling law business, he said.

6.   Profit taking helped to depress the automobile issues.

7.   Refining profits helped boost earnings for oil companies in the second and third quarters because of falling prices for crude oil, the raw material for gasoline.

8.   Renewed optimism that key companies in the computer industry will report strong second-quarter profits helped fuel the rebound.

9.   Record bank profits have helped financial services stocks outpace the broader market this year.

10.   Strong corporate profits helped raise tax collections in recent months, while program cuts have slowed federal spending.