1.   An R rating would keep some of them out, which would ruin profit projections.

2.   As a result, both manufacturers and service providers slashed sales and profit growth projections for the year.

3.   But at the least, the bookkeeping intricacies complicate their profit projections.

4.   But with so many producers, prices for the drives tumbled, and the profit projections became jokes.

5.   Demand is solid, he says, but profit projections are hard.

6.   Dickey expects that it will become routine for companies to come right out and make firm sales and profit projections.

7.   Executives at WorldCom hide billions of dollars in expenses through almost blatant accounting tricks, reportedly to meet increasingly distant profit projections.

8.   He declined to give profit projections.

9.   He declined to make a profit projection for the fourth quarter.

10.   In Hollywood, movie producers have already cut profit projections for fall releases because so many tickets will be sold in weak overseas currencies.