1.   Better still, accounting rules allowed many firms to book profits based on pension gains.

2.   Ability to book profits to invented companies, create swaps for imaginary services, hire fictional characters.

3.   By selling unpackaged loans, however, the company will be able to book profits only on the loan sales themselves.

4.   Companies sold banking and electronics shares to book profits on earnings for the six months to September.

5.   GM books profit when it sells vehicles to dealers, not when customers buy them, and many of those cars and trucks are sitting on lots.

6.   Japanese who have invested in the U.S. and elsewhere may sell dollars to book profits in yen terms on their overseas investments, said some analysts.

7.   Many domestic institutions are taking advantage of the stability in yen-dollar trading to book profits before the end of the trading month on Monday, Endo said.

8.   And GM is the only Detroit automaker to book North American profits last year and the only one expected to do so again this year.

9.   But North Carolina officials have a lien against his assets, and said they would confiscate book profits to pay for his treatment.

10.   But on Wednesday, a seeming respite from the political chaos in Indonesia gave traders a good excuse to sell dollars to book profits, traders said.